Students learn that people do many different jobs to help each other — and that each worker uses special tools to do their job, from a chef’s pan to a doctor’s stethoscope.
Students will be able to…
A chef, a doctor, and a farmer all do important jobs — but they use very different tools. Can you match each worker to the right tool?
Project this and have students match each worker to the tool they use for their job — tap a worker, then tap their tool.
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A chef cooks — what does a chef use?
Students investigate.
Explore more.
Think it through.
Students take action.
Aligned to the C3 Framework for Social Studies and Common Core literacy in social studies.
Explain how scarcity necessitates decision making about goods and services.
Describe how communities work to accomplish common tasks.
Describe examples of the goods and services that people produce.
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Have students draw the job they’d like to do someday and the tool they’d use. A printable dream-job page is in the Social Studies library.
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A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.
A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.