Pancakes, Pancakes

http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/grade1/Pancakes.html

Description: Learn about economics and geography from this book as you describe what Jack might have seen when he woke up and looked out the window. Identify the natural, capital and human resources Jack used to get flour for his pancakes and how Jack used the wheat to satisfy the hen's needs. Standards 1.6.2, 2.4.1, 2.4.2 and 2.4.3

Author: Patricia King Robeson, Montgomery County Public Schools

Lesson ID: 799

Picture a Business

http://www.eduplace.com/ss/act/picture.html

Description: This simple art activity helps students understand how different businesses in their community supply people's needs. To make this into an economics and information literacy activity, students should check their ideas of what they think businesses do against reality by using this activity preliminary to a trip to the business, checking their pictures against local newspaper ads, or by interviewing a store employee on e-mail. Standards 1.6.1, 1.6.2, and 2.4.2

Author: Houghton Mifflin

Lesson ID: 818

Uncle Jed's Barbershop

http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/grade2/Uncle_Jed.html

Description: Using the children's story Uncle Jed's Barbershop by Margaree Mitchell, students discover not only the differences between life now and long ago, but how the same economic principles still apply. In the early 1900s, Uncle Jed is saving his money to buy his own barbershop, but when his niece needs an operation, or when he loses his $3,000 savings during a Great Depression bank closure, he must save much longer than he once planned. Standards K.3, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 2.4.3, and 3.5.3

Author: Patricia King Robeson

Lesson ID: 1154