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Teach your class some fairly complex terms—factors of production, human resources, capital resources, natural resources, and intermediate goods—with a storybook (Messy Bessey's Holidays), plenty of visuals and handouts, and related questions and activities.
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Instructional Ideas
- Use this during a unit that focuses on resources
- Invite pupils to come up with their own stories that involve resources; they can draw a picture and label the items accordingly
Classroom Considerations
- You will need to either purchase or borrow a copy of Messy Bessey's Holidays by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
- In the included materials, you'll find two presentations for interactive whiteboards; these are not essential to the lesson if you don't have access to an interactive whiteboard
Pros
- Comes with activities, printables, a worksheet, an assessment, and an answer key for the assessment
- Answers to the discussion and reading questions are provided alongside the questions
- While the terms are complex for such young pupils, the lesson does include scaffolding and reinforcement to support learners
- Cross-curricular lesson combines language arts and social studies
Cons
- None
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