1. Economics and Ox Cart Man
Angela Kessel
ED 417

2. Goods and Services Grade 2 Ox Cart Man Standards: History:
Students use materials drawn from the diversity of human experience to analyze
and interpret significant events, patterns and themes in the history of Ohio, the
United States and the world.
Daily Life: 5. Identify the work that people performed to make a living in the past and explain how jobs in the past are similar and/or different from those of today

3. People in Societies Economics
Students use knowledge of perspectives, practices and products of cultural, ethnic and social groups to analyze the impact of their commonality and diversity within local, national, regional and global settings.
Diffusion: 3. Explain how contributions of different cultures within the United States have influenced our common national heritage.
Economics
Students use economic reasoning skills and knowledge of major economic concepts, issues and systems in order to make informed choices as producers, consumers, savers, investors, workers and citizens in an interdependent world.
Scarcity and Resource Allocation: 1. Explain how resources can be used in various ways (e.g., a bushel of corn could be fed to cows, used to make sweetener, or converted to fuel).
Production, Distribution and Consumption: 2. Explain how people are both buyers and sellers of goods and services.

4. Objectives
For each student to explain how people are both buyers and sellers of goods and services
Each child will compare goods and services from the past to present.
Each child will retell the story in own viewpoint.
Each child will grow a vegetable to represent self-sufficiency
Each child will be able to know the what a consumer is

5. Materials Pencils, markers
Paper divided into 2 sections and label each section goods, services
Ox-Man By Donald Hall
Venn diagram (one for teacher created on poster board and copies for children)
Advertisements from the paper
Glue
Calculator

6. Web Sites

7. Web Sites http://www.us-coin-values-advisor.com/colonial-times.html

8. Student Activity
1. Have students make a Venn Diagram with “Ox-Cart Man” on the left and “My Family” on the right. Have students discuss ways the family in the story met their need for goods. Compare this with how families meet their need for goods today. Record similarities in the middle of the Venn Diagram. Record differences on the sides.

9. Student Activity
2. Children will compare and contrast goods and services from the book to present time

10. Student Activity
3. Children will retell the story in their own words about how their life would be if they lived in colonial times.

11. Student Activity
4. Children will grow new potatoes from an existing potato.

12. Student Activity
5. Using advertisements from a paper, children will cut out pictures of items they want and glue on a piece of paper (with the price). After they are finished, each child is “given” ten dollars. They will add up their purchases and anything over ten dollars is crossed out. If the child ends up spending exactly ten dollars, ask them if they will be consumers again and why.

13. Farm Scene of daily life

14. Home

15. Man driving an ox-cart

16. Ox-cart for sale

17. Making candles

18. Knitting

19. Whittling

20. Money

21. Field trip in Spring for Maple Syrup!