Second graders explore how a community meets its needs, telling goods you can hold from services people do, and seeing how everyone is both a producer and a consumer.
Students will be able to…
Some things you can hold, and some things people do for you. What is the difference between goods and services, and who makes them?
Project this and open each card to explore goods, services, and the producers and consumers behind them.
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At the store you buy an apple; at the barber you get a haircut. One you can hold, one you cannot. What is the difference?
Students explore the key economics ideas.
Students label goods and services in their day.
Students map producers in a community.
Students reflect on the economy around them.
Aligned to the C3 Framework for Social Studies and Common Core literacy in social studies.
Explain how scarcity requires a person to make choices.
Identify the benefits and costs of making various personal decisions.
Describe the goods and services that people produce and consume.
Participate in collaborative conversations about the topic.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Have students pick a community, name three goods and three services, and say who produces each, so the idea of producers and consumers becomes concrete. A printable goods-and-services worksheet is in the Social Studies library.
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