Unit Plan: Producers and Consumers in the community

Lesson Plan for Wednesday Grade: 2 Social Studies Strand: Economics

Submitted By: Brittany Akre

EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social Science Nevada State College Spring 2014 Instructor: Karen Powell

Lesson Plan for Wednesday

B. Summary of the Lesson Plan:

Strand: Economics

submitted by: Brittany Akre

Students will begin to link the relationships of consumers and producers by picking roles and building background information for the role play they will do in the following days. C. Students Basic Information: Grade Level: 2nd Time to Complete this Lesson: 50 min Groupings: Whole and small group

D. Materials: Social studies notebooks

E. Objectives: o NV State Social Studies Standards

E9.2.2 Identify consumers and where they make purchases. E9.2.3 Identify producers in your neighborhood and community.

Student-Friendly Standards I will know what a consumer and a producer is and create my own example.

F. Vocabulary Producer- a person or place that makes goods for sale. Consumer- a person who buys goods from a producer. Goods- anything we buy. Ex: food, toys, clothes

G. Procedure: 1. Students will gather on the carpet for whole group discussion. 2. Students will be told that they are going to think in groups about if they were a producer, what would they be. 3. The teacher will write on the board and use metacognition to show what is expected from the students. 4. The teacher might say, if I were a producer, I would be a grocery store. I would sell fruits and bread because those are something things people in my community need. The teacher will also tell the students that there can only be one type of store for the whole class. So if another group picks grocery store first, the other groups need to think of something else.
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Lesson Plan for Wednesday

Strand: Economics

submitted by: Brittany Akre

5. The students will be dismissed to go to their desks and pull out their social studies journal. 6. They are required to write what type of store their group will have, 2 things they will sell, and why. 7. The teacher will be walking around and observing the conversations and making sure there is only one type of store. 8. After about 20 minutes of discussion, they students attention will be drawn back to the teacher. The teacher will inform the students to draw a line after their producer side and to write consumer. They are going to write who they are and what they are looking to buy and why. The teacher can write the example on the board, I am a mother looking for baby food because I have a small baby to take care of. 9. Students can discuss with their group but do not all have to choose the same thing for producer. 10. After another 15 minutes, the teacher will collect the journals for grading. H. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding? The students journal entries will be used for assessment. Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. I will know if the students have an appropriate example a producer and consumer with the required information. I. Closure: Students will discuss with their face partner what consumer they chose to write about in their notebooks.

J. Reflection: 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach? I think it will be easiest for the students to think of consumers. 2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach? I think the students will have trouble not all choosing the same store and thinking of some other producers. 3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson? The students will then act out their roles they chose in the next two days. 4. What can you do for students who dont grasp the concepts? We can try to write some roles together in their journals. 5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change? I might have to give the students choices of producers.
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Lesson Plan for Wednesday

Strand: Economics

submitted by: Brittany Akre

6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part? Deciding how to have them choose their producer and consumer roles.

Nevada State College

EDEL 453 - Spring 2014

Karen Powell- Instructor

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