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. standards.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. ndwants/search/

Picture Books Monster Musical Chairs by Stuart J. Murphy The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff

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 EC1 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! The Wanting Song (Sung to the tune of London Bridge is Falling Down) Wants are things I’d like to have Like to have, like to have. Wants are things I’d like to have (student’s name) wants_______. Goods and Services Goods, goods, goods, are things That we make and use. We're buying and selling And selling and buying Any goods we choose. Services are things we do That other people use. We're buying and selling And selling and buying Services that we choose. This blog has a ton of awesome poems!

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.

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. 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. id=252&type=educator

Needs and Wants Written and performed by Beth Yankee, Michael Creager, and Steven Davison. Social Studies Alive! My School and Family CD 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! 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 First Grade Buddies: Mentor Text Linky { }. (n.d.). First Grade Buddies: Mentor Text Linky { }. Retrieved February 24, 2014, from 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 standards.php?educatorState=MIhttp:// standards.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 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 Popcorn Scarcity Economics Lesson. (n.d.). Popcorn Scarcity Economics Lesson. Retrieved February 24, 2014, from

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 in-economics.html?m=1http://saylorslog.blogspot.com/2012/03/this-and-that- in-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 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