Title of Unit: Economics Title of Lesson: Making Choices Submitted By: Suzanne Garlick

A. Summary of the Lesson Plan: The students will discuss our class store. The students will make a list of items that they want to purchase from the store and have to make a choice of what they want and can purchase. B. Target Population: Grade Level: 2nd grade Skill Level: All Levels Grouping: o Wholediscussion o Individualpurchase chart

C. Materials: Small items for store Fake paper money Purchase chart and pencils D. Objectives: o NV State Social Studies Standards o E9.2.1 Give examples of what is given up when choices are made.

Student-Friendly Standards I know that when choices are made you may have to give things up.

E. Procedure: 1. Tell the students today you are going to get paper money and have a small store during class. 2. Show the students the items that they can buy in the store. 3. Dont tell the students the prices for the items yet. 4. Give each student $10 of the paper money. 5. Give them a chart so that they can write down a list of the things that they would like to buy from the store. 6. Have a few students share the items that they would like to purchase. 7. Now show the students the prices of each item. 8. Have the students write the prices next to the items that they want to buy. 9. Ask the students if they have enough money to buy all the items on their list.
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Title of Unit: Economics Title of Lesson: Making Choices Submitted By: Suzanne Garlick

10. Ask the students how they are going to decide what items they are going to purchase now that they know the cost of the items and how much they can spend. 11. Have the students share how they decided what they are going to purchase. 12. Have the students mark off the items that they cannot afford to buy and put a star by the items that they can purchase. 13. Open the store and have the students purchase their items. 14. CLOSURE: Today we learned that sometimes we have to give up things to get other things. F. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding? Students will know that when choices are made you may have to give things up. Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. I will assess the students purchase chart to see if they understand this concept. G. Reflection: 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach? I think that teaching the students that as choices are made, you may have to give up one thing for another will be the easiest part of this lesson. 2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach? I think that the most challenging thing about this lesson will be getting the students to mark the correct prices for each item, and adding them up correctly. 3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson? I will follow this lesson up through the rest of year by having a class store every Friday in the class. 4. What will you do for students who dont grasp the concepts? I will re-teach the concept to those students that do not understand. 5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change? I hope that I will not need to change any part of the lesson. 6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part? I always have a difficult time coming up with ideas on how to teach the subject. I even went to my childrens school to ask their teachers. They expressed that they
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Title of Unit: Economics Title of Lesson: Making Choices Submitted By: Suzanne Garlick

do not do a lot of social studies in class. They said they usually do some history when they can.

Store Purchases Worksheet Name_________________

Items Price_____________

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Nevada State College

EDEL 453 - Spring 2013

Karen Powell- Instructor

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