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LESSON
PLAN: FOLLOW AN ICE CREAM CONE AROUND THE WORLD
Lesson
Summary
Travel around
the world with the Green$treet kids as they discover what it takes to
produce ice cream. In the story, the kids visit different countries
where the various ingredients for ice cream are found. Students will
enjoy the many “billboards” in the story that give interesting facts about
ice cream. There’s even a recipe for making Penny Bright’s Mint
Chocolate Chip Ice Cream!
Concept: Interdependence
Definition: Interdependence occurs when
people or countries depend on someone else to provide the goods and
services they consume.
Comprehension Questions:
What does
it mean for people to be interdependent?
People are interdependent
when they depend on other people to provide the goods and services that
they want. For example, I provide what you want; you provide what I
want.
Why were
Bull and Bear giving away ice cream?
They gave it away to encourage
people to come to their store and buy more ice cream. This was a
marketing strategy that Bull and Bear hoped would increase the demand for
their ice cream.
Why did it
take “cows and trees and beans and factories and trucks…..” to produce ice
cream?
These are some of the many productive resources needed to
produce a good or service – in this case, ice cream.
In the
story, in what way is interdependence illustrated in the production of ice
cream?
Ice cream producers depend on people/businesses in various
countries to provide the ingredients for the ice cream: milk from
Wisconsin, sugar from Costa Rica, vanilla from Madagascar, mint from
Australia, and chocolate from Brazil.
Why do ice
cream producers go all over the world to get the productive resources to
produce ice cream? Why do they depend on other countries?
It
is more efficient for people to specialize in producing certain kinds of
goods and then trade with other people. By specializing and trading,
more goods and services are ultimately produced. This means higher
standards of living for people.
What large
capital resources were used to transport all the ingredients to the ice
cream factory?
Trucks, ships, planes
At the end
of the story, what other ways for Bull and Bear to market/advertise their
ice cream were mentioned?
Signs, radio, television, newspapers,
magazines
Can you
think of even more ways to advertise?
Flyers, bill boards,
Internet
Other
Concepts: Productive
Resources, Specialization | 
