Economics Goods and Services History Second Grade Third Grade Farmers

Want to add some fun to lessons on goods and services for your second or third graders? Combine economics with history in this engaging set of activities! Your students will read original articles on how food got from farms to stores in Colonial America, and how it gets there now. Then, they'll work in groups to create a game that shows they understand the problems that can happen (sick horses! harvest machines breaking! bad weather!).

To make this lesson even more fun, they'll switch games with another group and play a game about the economics of goods and services from a different era.

You'll save instructional time by having both history and economics in the same lesson, and your students will be masters of how goods and services move to the market.

☀Your second or third grade social studies students will love creating their own game and seeing their peers play it!

☀This resource is suprisingly low-prep. Simply print, cut, and go! You'll get teacher instructions, classroom procedures, printable game elements, and a rubric.

☀You'll get awesome questions to guide classroom discussion!

Included in this Tools of Geography Resource:

✅ Teacher instructions and ideas

✅ Farming in Colonial Times original article
✅ Farming Today original article

✅ Printable Game Board
✅ Farm to Market graphic organizer
✅ Printable spinner and game pieces
✅ Rubric

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HIGH-ABILITY LEARNERS:

For gifted or high-ability learners, this activity is absolutely wonderful, as it allows for self-differentiation. Students can choose to make their own store type (as opposed to one of those provided), and they can get more sophisticated with their products.

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⭐⭐WILLIAMS' MODEL OF CREATIVITY ⭐⭐
This lesson is based on Williams' Model of Creativity, a model designed to develop the traits of creativity in students. This particular resource focuses on this trait:

☀️ Imagination - the ability to build mental pictures and visualize possibilities

In addition to addressing standards and providing an engaging and effective classroom experience, these activities will also build students' creativity skills.

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