1st Grade Instructional Guide
Unit 4 Strand 4: Economics
CSD 1st Grade Social Studies Lessons & Resources
Content Standards & Lessons (Adapted from USBE)
Compelling Questions
KEY LANGUAGE USE
Standard 1.4.1 Explain the costs and benefits of spending and saving in order to meet needs and wants. Standard 1.4.2 Identify ways people make a living in the community. Standard 1.4.3 Identify and explain the roles and contributions of consumers, producers, and distributors in the community.
● How do people decide what is a want, and what is a need? ● What do people gain when they save, and what do they sacrifice? ● What does it mean to make a living?
Argue Explain
End of Unit Competency Students will explain how to prioritize their economic wants and make basic financial decisions. Language Features: ● Nouns: cost, benefit, needs, wants, community, consumer, producer, distributor ● Verbs: explain, identify, spend, save SKILLS VOCABULARY
● explain ● identify
● spending ● saving ● benefits
● needs ● wants
● consumer ● producer ● distributor
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