Higher-level students will work to solve analogies that relate to how location impacts supply and demand. They will also write their own analogies, and then they will write 3 ways that location affects supply and demand. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

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 learn of a young girl who moves with her family to an unpopulated area. The girl's creativity helps the town to grow in size. Students will see supply and demand demonstrated in this story.

Students can learn about the Fur Trade surrounding Fort Union in Montana during the 19th Century. They will learn about the economic impact and the relations between the whites and the Native Americans.

In this lesson, students will attempt to answer this question: How can they, as third graders, help people who live across the world from them with a problem such as unclean or not enough water? Students will view a PowerPoint about Global Interdependence and the teacher will guide a discussion of the implications of unsafe water. How easy is it for most students in the U.S. to access clean water? jStudents will also discuss what might happen if the water in their community became compromised. What can they do about the issue both in their own communities and in South Sudan? Student groups will research different fundraising possibilities for helping Salva Dut's Water for South Sudan and prepare research notes. Using these notes, groups will present a fundraising possiblity to the class, which will then choose one to participate in. Teacher will assist the children in voting on one project to support. This lesson was developed by Amber Honeycutt 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.            

With this lesson, students experience creating a budget and starting a simple business. Students use economic terms as well as experience the market or free-enterprise system.

In this lesson students will identify different types of breakfast options and research breakfast choices from around the world.

In this lesson, students learn the impact of individual and group decisions at a local level, the concept of supply and demand, and how prices and product availability play into the demand of objects.

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.

This is a folktale retold by Jan Brett about a little boy whose grandmother knits him a pair of snow white mittens. While he is outside he loses one and some animals, one by one, find it and move in because it looks warm. This story demonstrates scarcity of space and what happens when this occurs.

In this lesson, students hear a story about Peanut Butter, a slice of bread with peanut butter, who is looking for a friend. They hear about examples of complement and substitute goods and participate in an activity where they are given a good and they find a partner with a substitute or a complement for that good. They conclude by singing a song about complements and substitutes. The lesson provides the basis for understanding that a change in the price of one good affects the demand for goods that are complements to or substitutes for that good.

Students learn ways people use what they have to get what they want and why different ways to produce and allocate goods and services were developed.

Students will locate, explore, and photograph evidence of maritime activities affecting them and/or their community, write a detailed description about the effect of the activities, and share both photographs and descriptions online.

In this lesson, students explain how supply and demand works and how location can affect the supply or demand of a resource.

This activity introduces students to the context of using cameras during school events, classes and on school property and its relation to the right of privacy under the 4th Amendment. The expectation of privacy may be directly related to where and how information is collected and shared.