ECONOMICS

Pre-Kindergarten

 

Overarching Question: How do we get what we want and need?

Essential Questions:                                                                                        

v      How do we get what we want or need?

v      How do we keep what we have?

v      Why can’t we have everything that we want?

v      Why do we share?

 

Enduring Understandings 

 

MA History/ Social  Science curriculum framework Learning Standards:

Assessments

Learning Experiences

 

Some people in my family work.

 

People work for a variety of reasons.

 

We can get what we want with money, by trading, by making it, and by reusing things.

 

Limited resources can be shared in different ways: waiting your turn, dividing, using something together.

 

 

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.

 

Assessments:

Learning Experiences/Activities:

 

Set up a “town” where children shop, bank, eat, etc with  children using play money to pay for goods/services

 

Field Trips – see how people work, provide services, and produce goods ie visit a bank

 

Raise money for a trip, charity, etc. keeping track of money

Collect goods (ioe books, coats, food, etc) for others

 

Discuss how to share classroom materials

 

Discuss gender stereotypes as they relate to family members roles and jobs people have

Invite visitors to talk about their jobs

 

Hold a “Trade Day” children trade old books, toys, etc with each other

 

Explore money checks, etc

Count and discuss amounts of lunch and milk money

 

Literature

Girls A to Z eve Bunting

Roxaboxen Barbara Cooney

Something From Nothing Phoebe Gilman

A Chair for My Mother Vera B. Williams

The Money Tree Sarah Stewart

Corduroy Don Freeman

Joseph Had an Overcoat Simms Tabak

The Goat in the Rug Charles Blood

Feast for 10 Cathryn Falwell