This resource accompanies our Rethink 1st Grade Social Studies Economics unit. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.

This resource accompanies our Rethink 2nd Grade Social Studies Economics unit. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.

 Students will create an artifact using Tinkercad and a 3D printer.  The artifact must be a product that distinctly relates to their subject.                orStudents will create a holographic presentation using Cospace and Merge Cube.  The hologram will be representative of something distinct to their subject matter.

Students will create a digital presentation of their topic.  Areas highlighted will be Human-Environment Interaction, Politics, Economics, Culture (to include Religion) and Technology.  Students will also discuss the important points of the previously created timeline. 

In this lesson, students identify the steps for success in saving, give examples of how saving for the future means giving up things today, and set a savings goal and develop a plan to reach it.

Resources provides information about Rivtak, a business created by an North Carolina native.

In this lesson, students listen to a story and answer questions about a family in Central or South America that barters to get the ingredients for chicken sancocho, a kind of stew. Students participate in trading activities that illustrate money's advantages over barter.

In this lesson, students listen to a story and answer questions about lending in Bangladesh. They complete a diagram that shows the impact of lending on a community. Working as a class, they compare the similarities and differences between banks lending in the United States and the Grameen Bank lending in Bangladesh. Students work with a partner to estimate profits based on Sufiya's prices and costs in the book.

For this resource, students listen to a narrator read text about a firefighter.

For this resource, students listen to a narrator read text about the job of a librarian.

For this resource, students listen to a narrator read text about the job of a mayor.

For this resource, students listen to a narrator read text about the job of a pediatrician.

For this resource, students listen to a narrator read text about the job of a pizza maker.

For this resource, students listen to a narrator read text about the job of a police officer.

For this resource, students listen to a narrator read text about the job of a utility worker.

For this resource, students listen to a narrator read text about the job of a veterinarian.

Ben & Jerry are producers of ice cream. Even if they produce ice cream for the entire nation, they still must make choices on which flavor to produce! Scarce resources force them to make a choice!

In this lesson, students read about the cubs' spendthrift ways and how Mama and Papa Bear teach them to earn and save. Students learn about figures of speech, and they create "critter banks" in which they can begin to save.

This resource, the CPI inflation calculator, uses the average Consumer Price Index for a given calendar year. This data represents changes in prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households. This index value has been calculated every year since 1913. For the current year, the latest monthly index value is used.