Teaching Strategies - Grades 3-4. Master Curriculum Guide in Economics. Teacher Resource Manual [and] Student ActivitiesThis teacher resource manual for 3rd-and 4th-grade student's uses a wide variety of instructional activities for teaching economics education. The activities include role playing in small groups, producing bookmarks, and making decisions. Students are given the opportunity to interview adults, perform services for their families, do independent research, conduct experiments, and perform in skits. As a class they participate in a trading activity, engage in a classroom competition, and take part in a simulation. Discussion, reading, and writing clarify and reinforce the concepts that the activities are designed to teach. The manual contains 15 step-by-step lesson plans and reductions of the student pages for quick reference. Performance outcomes, a planning chart, and a 57-term glossary also are included. The companion student activities manual contains 39 supporting activities. The pages include family letters, scripts, activity cards, patterns, and a variety of other classroom materials in blackline master form. (LB) |
Contents
An Entrepreneurial Experience Extraordinaire | 65 |
Service Chart | 1 |
Service Coupons | 2 |
Family Services | 3 |
School Resource Hunt | 4 |
Tropical Rain Forests | 5 |
Opportunity Cost Chart 6 | 6 |
Country Fact Cards | 7 |
Tax Cards 21 | 21 |
Proposed School Taxes 23 | 23 |
Decision Grid 24 | 24 |
Taxes and GovernmentGoods and Services 25 | 25 |
The Story of Blue Jeans and the Gold Rush 26 | 26 |
Demand and Supply of Jeans 27 | 27 |
Incentive Scorecard 28 | 28 |
Human Capital Survey 29 | 29 |
Decision Grid | 8 |
Bookmark Pattern | 9 |
Circles within Circles Skit 10 | 10 |
Circular Flow Model 12 | 12 |
Family Letter 13 | 13 |
Transaction Sheet 14 | 14 |
Barter Worksheet 15 | 15 |
Functions of Money RolePlay Cards 16 | 16 |
Characteristics of Money 17 | 17 |
Homemade Cracker JackA 18 | 18 |
Homemade Cracker JackB 19 | 19 |
Cracker Jack Decisions 20 | 20 |
My Human Capital 30 | 30 |
Orange Juice Jubilee 31 | 31 |
Help Wanted List 32 | 32 |
Job Acceptance Letter 33 | 33 |
Comparison Shopping 34 | 34 |
Demand and Supply Schedules 35 | 35 |
Accountants Worksheet 36 | 36 |
Economic Concepts 37 | 37 |
Financial Report 38 | 38 |
Economics Puzzle 1 39 | 39 |
Economics Puzzle 2 40 | 40 |
Common terms and phrases
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