Unit Planner: Goods and ServicesSubmitted By: Daniel-Marie Lebel

EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social ScienceNevada State College – Spring 2014

Instructor: Karen Powell

UNIT PLANNER: Goods and Services Submitted By: Daniel-Marie Lebel

Summary of Lesson Plan NV State Social Studies Objectives Notes

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This lesson is about the students learning how to recognize the

three different types of productive resources: natural resources, human resources, and capital resources. This

lesson includes a strategy that includes the “Relevant

Approaches to Economics” strategy in “Integrating

Language Arts and Social Studies,” (p. 137-142).

NV State Social Studies Standards:E10.5.5 Recognize the three types of productive resources.

Student-Friendly Standards: I can categorize productive resources. I can recognize natural resources. I can recognize human resources. I can recognize capital resources.

To Remember: Productive Resource

PowerPoint Presentation Advertising Examples White Computer Paper or

Butcher Paper, Small Pieces/Any Color (Whole Class Set)

Technology: PowerPoint

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This is a lesson plan in which a fifth grade class would learn

about scarce resources and how they are allocated in the United States. The students are doing physical motions to represent

resource allocation methods and discussing the different scarce

resources.

NV State Social Studies Standards:E11.5.7 Identify scarce resources and identify how they are allocated in the United States.

Student-Friendly Standards:I can identify the resources that there are not enough of such as land, oil, and gold. I can identify how scarce resources are allocated in the United States.

Class set of Vocabulary Sheets

Give examples of each of the vocabulary terms and have the students create their own examples

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This is a fifth grade lesson in which students learn about the fact that individual people can

be both consumers and producers at the same time. This lesson includes a strategy called “Currency as a Primary Source” in “Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies,” (p. 157).

NV State Social Studies Standards:E.9.5.2 Demonstrate an understanding that an individual can be a consumer and a producer at the same time.

Student-Friendly Standards:I can tell that a single person can be a consumer.I can tell that a single person can be a producer.

Class Sets: Job Sheets Zip block bags Paper play money 20 Popsicle Sticks Bottle of Glue Cotton Swab

THU

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This fifth grade lesson is about students learning the relationships between

purchasing tools and the ability to produce goods and acquiring an education and the ability to

produce goods. They are analyzing real life situations of these relationships and relating

them to their own lives.

NV State Social Studies Standards:E11.5.2 Provide an example of how purchasing a tool or acquiring an education can increase the ability to produce goods.

Student-Friendly Standards:I can give an example of how purchasing a tool can increase the ability to produce goods.I can give an example of how acquiring an education can increase the ability to produce goods.

Class Sets: Vocabulary Sheets Goods Production

Problem SheetsTechnology:

ELMO Projector Screen

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This fifth grade lesson is about understanding the reasons for

importing and exporting goods n the United States. The students are working in their groups to lists the goods that the United States Produces and if they are

imported and exported.

NV State Social Studies Standards:E12.5.1 Explain why the U.S. imports and exports goods.

Student-Friendly Standards:I can explain why the United States imports goods.I can explain why the United States exports goods.

Group ActivityGroup Sets:

Butcher PaperIndividual Sets:

Marker Baggies

EDEL 453 - Spring 2014 Karen Powell- Instructor