In this lesson, students will identify a variety of jobs that people perform and determine for each job whether it provides a service or good and explain the importance of having businesses that provide services and goods in their community.

A cowboy rides into a ghost town and decides that it needs to be rebuilt. Students will select the necessary things that a town needs in order for it to function and grow. Students will identify 10 different types of services that are necessary to have in every community. They will identify the differences between a want and a need.

In this lesson, students will demonstrate that spending is exchanging money for goods and services, compare the price of a good at more than one store, recognize that prices are what people pay for goods and services, and identify that all consumers have limited budgets and must make choices.

In this lesson, students will explore simple economic concepts such as: goods, services, wages, and expenses.

This unit teaches students basic economic concepts with the use of a video, interactive website, and activity pages.

Students will explore a grocery store in search of food traditions brought to America by immigrants.

This lesson will help students to communicate ideas. It will review the concepts of needs and wants and introduce goods and services. The shoe collection associated with this unit was introduced in lesson 2 and the preparations for it continues in this lesson. The students will use various methods to communicate ideas about the shoe collection to the school, families, and community, and will begin to take action in implementing the steps of a successful shoe collection. Students will also take action by helping put shoes that have been collected around the halls of the building.This lesson was developed by James Agner as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Summarize the various ways in which people earn and use money for goods and services. 

In this lesson, students use data from visuals and graphs to make inferences about places. Students discover that human characteristics of places depend upon the natural resources found in environment in their community. Natural resources also affect jobs that are available in the area as well.

In this lesson, students will review the concepts of needs and wants. Through the use of fables, fairytales, and other literature, students learn about the differences between needs and wants. 
They examine the reasons why people can’t have everything they want and consider that individuals who want more than they can have often requires the person to make choices.

In this lesson, students learn how the concept of scarcity applies to choices families make every day. Students identify choices families make because of the lack of resources and because of wanting more than one can have.

In this lesson, the book, A Dollar for Penny, by Dr. Julie Glass, is used to teach students about producers, consumers, and price.

In this lesson, students learn about the people in the school community, their jobs and job descriptions, and identify locations of those jobs within the school. Students also learn how these jobs contribute to meeting the needs of the school community.

In this lesson, students listen to the story, Little Nino's Pizzeria and identify the inputs in a pizza, categorizing them as intermediate goods, natural resources, human resources, or capital resources. Students use a Venn diagram to sort attributes of each resturant mentioned in the story and the attributes they share.

Students will take a trip together to explore a locally owned business in their community. Children and adults will use the suggested questions to learn more about what it takes to run a business while thinking about the business history of their hometown.

Students use data from visuals and graphs to make inferences about places. Students discover that human characteristics of places depend upon the natural resources found in environment in their community. Natural resources also affect jobs that are available in the area as well.

Students learn how the concept of scarcity applies to choices families make every day. Students identify choices families make because of the lack of resources and because of wanting more than one can have.

In this lesson, students review the concepts of goods, services, and producers while identifying examples of each in a teacher's classroom. They learn about the three kinds of resources necessary to produce goods and provide services locating examples from a picture tour of the Crayola Factory. Students will explain the roles and impact producers and consumers have on the economy. Finally, they examine a picture of a farmer working in a field to identify examples of natural, human, and capital resources.

Through a story and activities, the student book introduces students to economic concepts such as saving, spending, budgeting, wants, goods, services and opportunity cost.

In this lesson, students read a chapter from the book Double Fudge, by Judy Blume, to learn how money is produced and how people can get money. They complete a worksheet about earning money, play a game about the value of money, and design their own money.