Unit Plan: Economics Experience: Sell it!

Lesson Plan for Tuesday Grade: 2nd Grade Social Studies Strand: Economics

Submitted By: Rebecca Waltz

EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social Science Nevada State College Spring 2014 Instructor: Karen Powell

Lesson Plan for Tuesday

Strand: Economics

submitted by: Rebecca Waltz

B. Summary of the Lesson Plan: This social studies lesson is designed for 2nd grade students to learn to Students will be able to describe where people buy goods and services and make provide goods and services. Students will be able to list examples of producers in their neighborhood after examining local ads and then creating an advertisement for our class store. The lesson uses inspiration from the Houghton Mifflin Social Studies textbook Neighborhoods (p. 172-173) and Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies: 25 Strategies for K-8 Inquiry-Based Learning textbook (p. 137-142). C. Basic Information: Grade Level: 2nd grade Time to Complete this Lesson: 50 minutes Groupings: individual,

D. Materials: Pens/Pencils Ads from local markets, ranches, stores, services, etc (Try to included one bilingual add because of the local cultural and ethnically diverse stores i.e. Market Centro & Schatz Bakery. Also try to include producers like local beef ranches, pumpkin forms, bee farms, Model Dairy, Apple farms, etc.) Colored pencils/ Markers/ crayons Glue Copies of vintage and modern advertisements Blank white construction paper (9x12 in ) for each student Advertisement Explanation Worksheet (Provided at the end of the lesson) E. Objectives: o NV State Social Studies Standards E.9.2.2 Identify consumers and where they make purchases. E. 9.23. Identify producers in your neighborhood and community. Student-Friendly Standards I can identify consumers and where they buy things. I can also identify producers in our neighborhood and community by looking at local advertisements.

F. Vocabulary Producers a person who makes or grows something

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Consumers someone who buys or uses goods or services Advertisements (Ads) a way to inform consumers about goods and services Goods the things people make or grow to sell Services jobs people do that help other people

G. Procedure: 1. Review vocabulary from previous lesson (Producers & consumers) 2. Introduce new vocabulary (Goods, Services, Advertisements) 3. Refer student attention to vintage advertisements and some modern advertisements. Use the Take-off/Touch-down strategy. If students have an idea to contribute to discussion they can Take-off (stand up). If they dont have a response to the discussion prompt, then they should Touchdown (sit-down). They can share with their shoulder partner, but the teacher should call on a few to share their answer aloud. The following are the discussion prompts: o o o o Discuss what the advertisement is selling (good or service). Discuss who they are trying to sell it to (identify the consumer). Discuss the benefits of the good or service. Try to identify the pricing if it is available.

4. Refer student attention to local producer advertisements. Use the Take-off/Touchdown strategy. If students have an idea to contribute to discussion they can Take-off (stand up). If they dont have a response to the discussion prompt, then they should Touchdown (sit-down). They can share with their shoulder partner, but the teacher should call on a few to share their answer aloud. The following are the discussion prompts: o o o Discuss what the advertisement is selling (good or service). Discuss who is trying to sell it (identify the producer). Discuss the benefits of the good or service.

5. In their table team groups, create lists of WHERE people can buy goods and services. Uses Stand-N-Share to compare lists and have students check off if they have it or add it to their list if they dont. 6. In their table team groups, create lists of WHO are the local producers. Uses Stand-NShare to compare lists and have students check off if they have it or add it to their list if they dont. 7. Explain to students that we will be creating our own advertisements for our class store, school lunch options, snack cart (used at recess), or any other good or service they can purchase at school. o Before students can draw and create their advertisement, students must individually complete their advertisement explanation worksheet.

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Encourage students to create a creative and exciting ad. Remind them to use their word wall and word resources for spelling. Place examples of ads on the table for students to look at as they work. Students should glue their explanation worksheet to the back of the completed advertisement.

H. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding? Students will be assessed by their created advertisement on construction paper and worksheet which displays a good or service, target the ad for a consumer, list whom the producer is, and where the consumer can purchase the item. Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. The student will demonstrate their ability to identify the producer, consumer, and where they can purchase the good or service by creating an advertisement and advertisement explanation. Students must be able to explicitly identify this information and transform that information into the advertisement. I. Closure: Students may share their advertisements by describing their good or service, the consumer, and the producer.

J. Reflection: 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach? I think the vocabulary will be the easiest part of the lesson to teach. The lesson before this one thoroughly teaches consumer and producer and the new vocabulary words are not that difficult. 2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach? Trying to clarify that the places where people buy things are not exclusively producers will be difficult. I think I will need to make sure I provide specific examples like a consumer might buy their vegetables from a store like SaveMart, but the farm is where they are actually produced. 3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson? I think a great way to extend this lesson would be to create a center in which students can match up vocabulary discussions and corresponding pictures. Students could play memory and try to match them up.

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4. What can you do for students who dont grasp the concepts? I mentioned using an anchor chart in the Tuesday Work lesson to support student understanding. I would suggest this anchor chart again and perhaps laminating so that we could write examples of producers, consumers, goods, and services on it. The anchor chart might look like this:

Producer

Makes

Goods Buys

Provides

Services

Consumer

Uses Earns Money Saves

5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change? I really dont care for the advertisement activity in the lesson to be honest, but I couldnt find a strategy in the book that fit in my unit plan better. I think I might seek out another Social Studies Strategies book in order to support my future social studies lesson. 6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part? Trying to connect the activity to the standard objectives was the most difficult. I created the worksheet to help me make that connection. Although it was the most difficult, it ended up being the most beneficial, because it became my assessment tool.

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Strand: Economics

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Advertisement Worksheet Name:

What are you trying to sell?

Is it a good or service? How do you know?

What are the benefits (good things) about what you are selling?

Who will be your consumer?

Who is your producer?

Where can the consumer buy what you are selling?

What is the price of the good or service?

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