Michael Mongeau

Disability category Communication Disorder

Strategy Role Play
Goal/Objective To allow students to understand important concepts in
economics by acting them out or role-playing.
When to use this strategy This strategy can be used to help instruct students in
vocabulary that are difficult to grasp. For many
students with communication disorders, it is difficult
for them to understand certain, more abstract,
concepts. By having students role play these concepts,
it helps them remember by presenting multiple ways
of knowing. This is known as the tri coding theory.

This can be used to teach any concept, not only

abstract concepts. Having students re-enact historical
events is not only fun, but also helps students with
communication disorders understand important
concepts, as supported by the tri coding theory.

For students who struggle learning from reading or

Step by step instruction- How to use this in
a social studies classroom. You will partner
with a classmate to teach them your
strategy so be explicit and provide a sample
for your partner.
listening, they can learn more through doing.
1). Briefly introduce concepts to the concepts of supply
and demand, writing the concepts on the board
2). The class is divided into two teams, sellers and
buyers.

3). The sellers are given an item (penny, bead, or other

small item), and told to sell that item at a particular
price.

4). The buyers are told to buy the item at a particular

price (lower than the sellers price)

5). Buyers and sellers then meet (marketplace), and

come to an agreement on the price. The buyers and
sellers then write the price on the board.

6). The teacher then briefly debriefs about the price,

and, assuming the price is in the middle of the buyers
and sellers prices, discusses the term market
equilibrium, and how what they did relates to that
concept

7). Teacher repeats the same exercise, only there are

more buyers than sellers. As a result price should rise.
The teacher should debrief, discussing the significance
of market sacristy.

Assessment- How could this strategy be
used to evaluate student learning?
Citation
Michael Mongeau
8). The exercise should be repeated a third time, this
time with significantly more buyers than sellers, to
represent a market surplus.
In this assignment, an evaluation would be in a follow-
up activity, such as a show of hands after the
assignment was done for, Who understands what a
supply surplus is?, or a bell work the next day asking
three questions, What does it mean when a market is
at equilibrium?, What is a market surplus? What is
market sacristy?
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