Describe how society depends upon workers with specialized jobs and the ways in which they contribute to the production and exchange of goods and services. 2.2.1 b

Links verified 12/31/2014

1. Business Buddies - Students learn the differences between goods and services and producers and consumers
2. Lets Find a Deal - drag each person to the right column; producer or consumer
3. Little Bill the Producer - This lesson (from EconEd Link) teaches the most basic vocabulary about production. People who make goods and provide services are called producers.
4. Match producers and the products they make by dragging images from one row to another
5. Mystery Workers - review the concepts of goods, services, and producers using the Internet to locate examples of each in a teacher's classroom
6. Norman Rockwell's Curiosity Shop - match the good or service.
7. Simple Simon Met a Pie-Man - a flash video of the classic rhyme, Simple Simon and the Pie-Man, introduces students to the concepts of consumer and producer.
8. Simple Simon Meets a Producer - In this lesson plan (from EconEd Link) students learn that consumers are the people who buy and use goods and services. Producers make the goods and provide the services.
9. We are Consumers and Producers - In this lesson (from EconEd Link) students learn how they and family members fulfill the roles of consumers and producers at home and in their community.
10. What Do I Want To Be When I Grow Up? - In this lesson, students learn what they would like to be when they grow up and why they have made the choice they have.

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