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LESSON: GRANDPA’S CORNER
STORE
Lesson
Summary
Grandfather's small grocery is threatened by the
building of a new supermarket. With the help of his granddaughter,
Lucy, and the neighborhood, Grandpa's store is saved.
Concept: Interdependence
Definition: Interdependence occurs when
people or countries depend on someone else to provide the goods and
services they consume.
Comprehension Questions
Using
the map in the book, list the businesses found in Grandpa's community
that provided goods.
Answers may vary: Grandpa's Corner Store,
toy store, music store, bookstore, dress shop, hardware store,
jewelry store, etc.
List
the businesses that provided services.
Answers may vary: fire
station, post office, bank, laundromat, hospital, police station,
etc.
Describe the importance of Grandpa's
corner store to the community.
The store had everything people
needed close by.
Explain
the role the community played in keeping Grandpa's store open.
They
all pitched in to help Grandpa spruce up his store by dividing
the labor-painting, stocking shelves, putting down new tile,
sweeping, dusting, etc.
Describe how division of labor by the
community workers resulted in interdependence.
By dividing the
labor into separate tasks - painting, dusting, sweeping, etc. - the
community members worked together, depending on each other to help
Grandpa.
What
was the advantage of the community working together?
Through
working together and becoming interdependent, the community was able
to work fast to save Grandpa's Store before it was sold.
Explain
the statement from the book, "A community is a group of
people who live and work together."
A community is the area
in which you live where people specialize in producing goods and
services for each other. For example: Grandpa specialized in selling
groceries (goods). He depended on the bank to provide services he did not
produce such as a place to save his money. The bank employees depended on
Grandpa to provide groceries. Grandpa and the bank were dependent on each
other.
Other
Concepts: Human
Resources, Producers, Consumers, Market, Goods and
Services, Specialization
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