Integrated Literacy
Assignment
1-E1.0.1 Distinguish between producers and consumers of goods and
services.
1-E1.0.3 Using examples, explain why people cannot have everything they
want (scarcity) and describe how people respond (choice).
Cassey Jones
Helpful Sites
This website lists all economics GLCEs grades k-12. Almost
every GLCE has 2-3 lesson plans along with it.
http://www.econedlink.org/economic-standards/statestandards.php?educatorState=MI
Search and Spot: Students are shown four different pictures.
In each picture, they must search for the things they need to
survive.
http://www.brainpopjr.com/socialstudies/economics/needsa
ndwants/search/
Picture Books
Monster Musical Chairs
by Stuart J. Murphy
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
by Laura Joffe Numeroff
The Milk Makers
by Gail Gibbons
Worksheets and Foldables
This foldable shows the
beginning of milk being
produced to the consumer
drinking it.
Our Needs and Wants and Producers
and Consumers
both written by Amy Hutchings
This ‘big book’ helps students to
understand the choices people make and
different ways people meet their needs
and wants.
This ‘big book’ helps students to
understand that people are consumers
when they buy or use goods and services
and producers when they make or
provide goods and services.
Video: Needs vs Wants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el40d2gyWaI&list=PL64021C7FD598F
EC1
This short video explains wants and needs at
the beginning, then tells a story about two
boys wanting to buy bicycles, but they need
to save money to do so. One of the boys
makes the choice to stop at the convenience
store every day and buy soda and a candy
bar. By the end of the year, he spent all his
money at the convenience store and cannot
afford the bicycle. The other boy makes the
choice to save his money and at the end of
the year he is able to buy his bicycle and
even has some money left over.
Music and Poetry!
Goods and Services
Goods, goods, goods, are things
That we make and use.
The Wanting Song
We're buying and selling
(Sung to the tune of London Bridge is
And selling and buying
Falling Down)
Any goods we choose.
Services are things we do
Wants are things I’d like to have
That other people use.
Like to have, like to have.
We're buying and selling
Wants are things I’d like to have
And selling and buying
(student’s name) wants_______.
Services that we choose.
This blog has a ton of awesome poems!
http://www.jologriffin.com/gazillion.cfm?subpage=25700
Popcorn Scarcity Activity
What you will need
-1 Large brown paper bag filled with popped popcorn
-1 Large brown paper bag filled with crumpled newspaper
-3 Small brown paper lunch bags PER student
-Alternative snacks
Open the large brown paper bag filled with popped popcorn.
Allow students to go up one row at a time to collect popcorn.
Tell them that they can take as much as they want-even offer
them extra lunch bags to carry it all. Eventually, the popcorn
will run out before every student gets some. Explain that if the
students who already got popcorn had known that there was
crumpled newspaper in the other large brown paper bag, they
probably would have taken much less popcorn so that everyone
would have gotten some.
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/popcorn.htm
Toys for Me: A Lesson on Choice
Read the story poem Toys for Me,
written by C.D. Crain. In the story,
Scarcity’s mother is only giving her
one present for her birthday and for
Christmas. Scarcity does not believe
this is fair. She wants “this AND
that”, not “this OR that”. Scarcity
learns to make choices.
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/i
ndex.php?lid=517&type=educator
That’s not Fair! How do We Share?
“This lesson has students explore a variety of ways to share, particularly
when an obvious solution is not apparent.”
Students will be able to...
•Describe scarcity as it relates to limited
numbers of goods used in classroom activities.
•Identify choices and the costs of choosing one
item over another.
Describe the difficulty in distributing goods or
services to satisfy all wants.
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?l
id=252&type=educator
Needs and Wants
Written and performed by Beth Yankee, Michael Creager, and Steven
Davison.
Every family has needs and wants.
Families need basic things.
Food, clothing, shelter, are what they need to live.
These are the three basic needs.
If a sandwich is a need, pat your head!
If shoes are a need, stomp your feet!
If a house is a need, turn around!
Social Studies Alive!
My School and Family CD
Every family has needs and wants.
Families want many things.
They don’t need these things to live,
But they make them happy.
If TV is a want, slap your lap!
If toys are a want, touch your toes!
If cookies are a want, clap up high!
Every family has needs and wants.
Families need basic things.
Food, clothing, shelter, are what they need to live.
These are the three basic needs. (x2)
Citations
BrainPOP Jr. | Needs and Wants | Game. (n.d.). BrainPOP Jr. | Needs and Wants | Game.
Retrieved February 24, 2014, from
http://www.brainpopjr.com/socialstudies/economics/needsandwants/search/
First Grade Buddies: Mentor Text Linky {4.28.13}. (n.d.). First Grade Buddies: Mentor Text Linky
{4.28.13}. Retrieved February 24, 2014, from
http://firstgradebuddies2.blogspot.com/2013/04/mentor-text-linky-42813.html
Gibbons, G. (1985). The milk makers. New York: Macmillan ;.
Hutchings, A. (2012). Goods and services. Pelham, NY: Benchmark Education.
Hutchings, A. (2012). Our needs and wants. Pelham, NY: Benchmark Education.
Citations Continued
Michigan. (n.d.). Standards in Economics and Personal Finance. Retrieved February 24, 2014,
from http://www.econedlink.org/economic-standards/statestandards.php?educatorState=MI
Murphy, S. J., & Nash, S. (2000). Monster musical chairs. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.
Needs vs Wants. (2010, October 7). YouTube. Retrieved February 24, 2014, from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el40d2gyWaI&list=PL64021C7FD598FEC1
Numeroff, L. J., & Bond, F. (1985). If you give a mouse a cookie. New York: Harper & Row.
POEMS-SOCIAL STUDIES. (n.d.). POEMS-SOCIAL STUDIES. Retrieved February 24, 2014, from
http://www.jologriffin.com/gazillion.cfm?subpage=25700
Popcorn Scarcity Economics Lesson. (n.d.). Popcorn Scarcity Economics Lesson. Retrieved
February 24, 2014, from http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/popcorn.htm
Citations Continued
Saylor's Log: This and That in Economics. (n.d.). Saylor's Log: This and That in Economics.
Retrieved February 24, 2014, from http://saylorslog.blogspot.com/2012/03/this-and-thatin-economics.html?m=1
That's Not Fair! How Do We Share?. (n.d.). Economic lesson plans, Personal Finance lesson plans
and resources for educators, students and afterschool providers. Retrieved February 24,
2014, from http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lid=252&type=educator
Toys for Me: A Lesson on Choice. (n.d.). Economic lesson plans, Personal Finance lesson plans and
resources for educators, students and afterschool providers. Retrieved February 20, 2014,
from http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lid=517&type=educator