Students learn about jobs in the classroom and how they contribute to the classroom and school community as they help meet the need of the entire class in moving to achieve the goals of the clas to ensure a safe and appropriate environment that will allow all students to learn.

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.

People are paid for all kinds of work. They might sell shoes, write a book, fix cars or cook food. You can tell what some workers do by the hats and other clothes they wearWhy do the workers in the activity wear hats?Do these workers wear any other special clothes?Which workers do you think have the hardest jobs?Which jobs do you think would be the most fun or interesting?In your family, who works to earn money? What do they do?Do they have a hat or other special clothing that they wear while working? 

Every year in October, there is Fire Safety Week! Students will research and learn about Fire Safety. 

If you’ve taken time to glance at the Kindergarten “Myself and Others” book, or its sequel First Grade “Families and Schools”, you’ll know that the authors of those books envisioned them being “big books” which were meant to be experienced with the teacher projecting the materials on a big screen. This book begins the transition from “big book” to an individualized tool. It doesn’t mean that the book is meant to be read without teacher interaction, but this resource was designed to be in the hands of students in conjunction with daily classroom instruction.

After exploring ways that people use resources from our environment to provide for basic needs and wants, students will generate an inclusive list (using brainstorming and research) of many natural resources that people use to meet their needs and wants.  Students will create a poster to illustrate their generated ideas.  Then students will present their posters to the class or a small group.  The teacher may also ask students to consider the use of one natural resource over another in a given situation.  Students will consider the best natural resource (s) to use in various situations based on wants/needs, sturdiness, usefulness, sustainability, durability, accessibility, availability, cost, etc.  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.

The students will count the cans that they earned and are donating to the food pantry. The students will reflect on the unit and how they felt about helping others.This lesson was developed by Michelle Allen 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

Students will learn that people have jobs so they can buy the things they need and want.This lesson was developed by Michelle Allen 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.

If your basic needs are not met, what happens? Student will look at life from the perspective of someone that is homeless or hungry.This lesson was developed by Michelle Allen 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.

In this lesson, higher level students will think critically while solving analogies that relate to jobs and how jobs help people earn money to purchase things that they need or want. 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 learn about saving, savings goals, and income. They listen to the book Just Saving My Money by Mercer Mayer, a story about how Little Critter saves his money to buy a skateboard. Students use clues in the book's text and pictures to answer questions. After listening to the story, students play a game where they each have a savings goal, earn income, and save money until that savings goal is met. Students write math sentences to determine whether they have saved enough to reach their goals. Students also set their own savings goals and tell how they could earn income to meet them.

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 learn about jobs in the classroom and how they contribute to the classroom and school community as they help meet the needs of the entire class in moving to achieve the goals of the class – to ensure a safe and appropriate environment that will allow all students to learn.

This site provides students, ages 3-5, with information about things they need to know to live financially smart lives. Activities are listed under each milestone they are introduced to such as needing money to buy things, you earn money by working, you may have to wait before you can buy something you want, and there is a difference between things you want and things you need.

This site provides students, ages 3-5, with information about things they need to know to live financially smart lives. Activities are listed under each milestone they are introduced to such as needing money to buy things, you earn money by working, you may have to wait before you can buy something you want, and there is a difference between things you want and things you need.

In Kindergarten, students are introduced to the basic concepts of economics. People of all ages experience two important economic terms introduced here: needs and wants. The differences between a need and a want is where we spend our first chunk of time in this chapter.

With this video, students learn how pharmacists mix, measure, and dispense drugs prescribed by doctors.

With this video, students learn how physical therapists help people regain strength and improve mobility.

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