Lesson Plan
Are You a Producer or a Consumer?
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify the consumers and producers in a community and their functions.
Introduction
(10 minutes)
- Ask your students to list items that their families like to buy.
- Discuss items that they buy to meets their needs for food, shelter, and clothing. Identify these items as goods.
- Next, ask your students to name some services their families pay for, such as haircuts.
- Review with students that goods are things people make or use to satisfy others' needs and wants.