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🗺️ 3rd Grade · Social StudiesD2.Eco.1.3-5Unit 4: Economics in our community

Opportunity cost

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🎯 Objective: Students explain that every choice has an opportunity cost.

Lesson outline

  1. Choice scenarios.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one cost.

Lesson 1 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.1.3-5

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Explain choices, costs and benefits
  • Describe businesses, jobs and entrepreneurship

✅ 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 “Economics in our community”

  1. Opportunity cost
  2. Businesses and jobs
  3. Be an entrepreneur

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