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🗺️ 1st Grade · Social StudiesD2.Eco.1.K-2Unit 4: Goods, services & money

Making choices

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🎯 Objective: Students make choices when they cannot have everything.

Lesson outline

  1. Spend 10 tokens.
  2. Discuss trade-offs.
  3. Draw.
  4. Exit: one choice.

Lesson 2 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.Eco.1.K-2

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe producers and consumers
  • Make choices with limited money

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Goods, services & money”

  1. Producers and consumers
  2. Making choices
  3. Saving

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