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Within any community people have various jobs, roles, and
responsibilities.
People work for a variety of reasons.
Goods and services can be bought, sold, shared, traded or donated.
People rely on others for goods and services.
Goods can be made, reused, or recycled.
Money is used to buy things, but it cannot buy everything people
want or need.
Some people do not have enough money to buy the things they want or
need.
When we take care of our materials/resources, they last longer.
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Use words
relating to work, such as jobs, money, buying, and selling.
Give
examples of how family members, friends, or acquaintances use money
directly or indirectly (e.g., credit card or check) to buy things they
want.
Give
examples of different kinds of jobs that people do, including the work they
do at home.
Explain why
people work (e.g. to earn money in order to buy things they want)
Give
examples of the things that people buy with the money they earn.
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Set up a
“town” where children shop, bank, eat, etc and use play money
(which they can create) or barter to obtain goods/services.
Field Trips – see how people work,
provide services, and produce goods ie visit a bank, farm, bakery, post
office.
Raise
money for a trip, charity, etc. keeping track of money.
Collect
goods (ie books, coats, food, etc) for those in need.
Discuss
ways to share classroom resources.
Discuss
gender stereotypes as they relate to family members’ roles and jobs
people have
Invite
visitors to visit the classroom to talk about their jobs
Create
an alphabet book, graph, or chart about various kinds of jobs (including
jobs done from home).
Hold a
“Trade Day” when children are invited to trade books, toys, etc with one another
(with parent permission)
Count
and discuss amounts of lunch and milk money.
Make
bread or other product on an assembly line.
Sell a
product or service and donate funds to worthy cause ie.Collect paper scraps
and make paper – sell the paper, donate money raised to worthy cause
(ie purchase acre of rainforest,)
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