TEACHING IDEAS
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Play Lesson 2: Producers and Consumers, from the Herschel’s World of Economics DVD. Your students will delight in meeting Herschel, a dog puppet, as he learns all about economics! A Teacher’s Guide accompanies the Herschel DVD.
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Do the lesson on Consumers in the very practical Half-Pint Economics curriculum.
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List and/or draw goods and services that people consume.
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Write a paragraph entitled, "Goods and Services I Consume Every Day."
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Write a paragraph entitled, "Consumers Make Choices."
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Cut out pictures of people using goods and services and identify the goods and services being consumed.
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Plan a vacation trip. List the goods and services you will consume on the trip.
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Construct a pictorial graph showing people in three categories: consumers, producers, and both producers and consumers.
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Cut out coupons from a newspaper or magazine. Compute how much money you would save from using them.
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Students can save their allowance, use it to purchase (consume) goods and services, or give some of it away. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each option.
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Plan a budget for a week. Estimate how many goods and services you will purchase (consume). Also, estimate how much you would like to save or give away.
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LITERATURE
CONNECTION
You can
use the literature books below to help teach CONSUMERS Click on the book cover or the title below
to obtain information on the book as well as guided questions you
can use with your students. Some books are no longer available
from the publishers, but we still include title information and
Lessons as you might have them in your school or public library or
possibly in your classrooms.
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Benny’s
Pennies
Brisson,
Pat |
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The
Big Buck Adventure
Gill,
Shelley & Tobola, Deborah |
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Ice
Cream: The Cold, Cream Treat
Landau,
Elaine |
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The
Ox-Cart Man
The Caldecott Medal Winner,
1980
Hall,
Donald |
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Paying
Taxes
Lexile: 850
DeCapua,
Sarah |
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Something
Special For Me
Williams,
Vera B. |
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