Instructor: Kennedy
Team: Miami
Grade Level: 6th
Studies
Lesson Title & #: 4 Factors of Production;
Basic Economic Questions
Unit: Economics
# Students: 180
Subject: Social
# IEP Students: 12
Date(s): 11/8-11/12
Period(s): 3-6
# G/T Students: 10 # ESL Students: 2 # D/HH Students:
Kentucky Core Content 4.1
DOK Abbreviated Description
3.1.1
3
3.2.1
3
3.3.1
3
3.4.2, 3.4.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3
3
*Explain and give examples of how scarcity requires individuals, groups and governments
to make decisions about how productive resources (natural resources, human resources,
capital goods)
are used.
Compare
economic
systems (traditional, command, market, mixed)
Explain how in market economies the prices or goods and services are determined by
supply and demand.
Describe how new knowledge, technology/tools and specialization increase human
productivity.
What are the four factors of production? Why are they important in making economic
Essential/Guiding Question: decisions?
What are the basic economic questions? Why are they important in making economic
Essential/Guiding Question: decisions?
Identify the four factors of production. Explain why they are
Learning Objective: The Student Will Be Able To
important in making economic decisions.
(TSWBAT)
Explain the 4 basic economic questions. Explain why the are important in making economic
Learning Objective:
decisions.
TSWBAT
Learning Objective:
TSWBAT
Resources &
Critical Vocabulary Specific Activity & Procedures
Day Duration
Technology
Go over last common assessment; grade government
11/8
projects; discuss open response questions #17
Goods, services,
scarcity, shortage,
surplus, producer,
distribution,
competition,
Introduce the economic vocabulary. Discuss “What is
productive resources,
Economics”? Begin discovering the 4 factors of
11/9
(capital, human,
production. Content area reading.
natural),
labor/workforce,
renewable resources,
nonrenewable
resources
Note taking on 4 factors of production; discuss
content area reading; Activity: Producing a Shoe!
VETERAN’S DAY extra credit presentations; Begin
discussion of Productivity and 4 Basic Economic
Questions
Week 1: Vocabulary Quiz
Productivity Article, Activity
50 min
Whiteboard, CA
50 min
NOTE TAKING,
SmartBoard, Computer;
production article,
vocabulary chart/definitions
11/10 50 min
11/11 50 min
11/12 50 min
SmartBoard, Computer;
article, note taking guide
SmartBoard, Computer,
note taking guide, activity
materials: sheet, calculator
NOTE TAKING,
SmartBoard, Computer
Pre-Assessment
Formative Assessment
Summative Assessment
Exit Slip on Wednesday; Thursday
Common Assessment
Quiz on Friday
Special Education Modification(s): Extra-time, modified list, copy of notes, chunking
Gifted & Talented Modification(s):
Reflection
Investigate countries with a true democracy?
Changes Needed