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The
Awful Aardvarks Shop for School by Reeve Lindbergh
Viking Books
32 pages
ISBN 0-670-88763-3
Summary:
The aardvarks make a list of things they need for "Back
to School." They go to the Shop-All-Day Mall to satisfy their
economic wants.
Concept:
Economic Wants
Definition:
Economic wants are desires that can be satisfied by consuming
a good, service, or leisure activity.
Comprehension
Questions:
The aardvarks
made a shopping list for "Back to School." Identify each
economic want as a good or a service. (goods- sneakers, new jackets,
notebooks, pencils, crayons, glue, markers, lunchbox, backpacks;
service- haircuts)
Where did they
go to shop for their wants? List all the different stores they visited.
(stores in the Shop-All-Day-Mall: clothing and shoe store, toy
store, candy shop, bookstore, food court, beauty shop)
Describe how
their list of wants changed after they began shopping in each store.
(They saw things they wanted that were not on their list.)
Explain how
they satisfied their economic wants. (by going to the different
stores and taking what was on the shopping list and more)
Identify one
scarcity problem in the story. (There was no lunch box.)
Other
Concepts: Goods
and Services, Money, Scarcity
(From KidsEcon Posters©: www.kidseconposters.com)
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