In this activity, students decide which of their two favorite things they want to buy from their list in Activity 2. This activity is the companion to the Lesson 2: My Favorite Things. Activity is found on pages 14-17 of the pdf.
In this lesson, students hear a story about Brother and Sister Bear, who seem to want everything. The little cubs learn that they must make choices because they cannot have everything they want. Students follow along with the story by completing an activity listing all of the goods that will satisfy the cubs' wants. The students then take part in an activity to construct a word web and graphic organizer (table) to identify goods that will satisfy a want. Students will make a choice, identify the problem of scarcity, and recognize their opportunity cost.
Students can learn about Caleb Bradham who was the creator of Pepsi.
In this lesson, students will select resources that would be useful for space travel with scarcity in mind, work cooperatively in groups to reach decisions, and experience the outcome of their choices and recognize that setting criteria can improve their chances for success.
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.
With this lesson, students learn about business and economics in the free enterprise system focusing on individuals, such as Milton Hershey, Wallace Amos, and Sam Walton.
Students will research lighthouses of North Carolina using print and digital resources and create a digital presentation on the NC lighthouse of their choice. After studying basic electric circuits, students will use cardboard and Makedo tools to design and build a model of this lighthouse and wire it to light using a kit of electronic supplies. Students will showcase their final products with friends and family using digital photography, Google Presentations and a screencast video on Flipgrid or another platform of the teacher’s choosing. Students will submit a Seesaw documenting their experience with the Design and Engineering Process while building their lighthouse.
In this lesson, students participate in a simulation that enables them to understand the characteristics of a Market Economic System.
In this lesson, studentsexplain how economic stability or affluence affect supply and demand.
After studying agricultural products of North Carolina. Students will design a vehicle to transport their "goods" to market. Student vehicles will be powered by Sphero Mini robots to transport a replicated agricultural “load” a predetermined distance to replicate a journey from farm to market.
In this lesson, students will explain why they cannot have everything they want because of scarcity and explain how all choices have costs. An interactive poem is included and discussion questions.
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.
Students learn about business and economics in the free enterprise system focusing on individuals, such as Milton Hershey, Wallace Amos, and Sam Walton.