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Mystery workers

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A lesson plan for grades K–5 Social Studies

Provider: National Council on Economic Education


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In this lesson from EconEdLink, students review the concepts of goods, services, and producers. They then learn about the productive resources producers use to produce goods and provide services, including natural, human, and capital resources. This lesson incorporates an interactive student activity and links to a variety of web resources.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Social Studies (2003)

Grade 1

  • Goal 6: The learner will apply basic economic concepts to home, school, and the community.
    • Objective 6.07: Recognize that all families produce and consume goods and services.

Grade 2

  • Goal 7: The learner will apply basic economic concepts and evaluate the use of economic resources within communities.
    • Objective 7.01: Distinguish between producers and consumers and identify ways people are both producers and consumers.
    • Objective 7.02: Distinguish between goods produced and services provided in communities.

Grade 3

  • Goal 5: The learner will apply basic economic principles to the study of communities.
    • Objective 5.02: Explain the impact of scarcity on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
    • Objective 5.05: Distinguish and analyze the economic resources within communities.

Grade 4

  • Goal 6: The learner will evaluate how North Carolinians apply basic economic principles within the community, state, and nation.
    • Objective 6.03: Categorize the state's resources as natural, human, or capital.
    • Objective 6.04: Assess how the state's natural resources are being used.

Grade 5

  • Goal 5: The learner will evaluate ways the United States and other countries of North America make decisions about the allocation and use of economic resources.
    • Objective 5.01: Categorize economic resources found in the United States and neighboring countries as human, natural, or capital and assess their long-term availability.
    • Objective 5.02: Analyze the economic effects of the unequal distribution of natural resources on the United States and its neighbors.

Kindergarten

  • Goal 6: The learner will apply basic economic concepts to home, school, and the community.