Description

Key Learning Objectives

 

Activity One: Robbie’s Trip to the Farm

Students are introduced to a storybook character and his visit to a family farm. Through a group discussion and by drawing pictures of their favorite animals, they discover that individuals make choices.

 

Objectives:  The students will:

-recognize the role of self

-appreciate individual differences

Concepts: barter, goods, individual, voluntary exchange, work

Skills: abstract thinking, decision making, drawing, following directions, interpreting information, listening responsively, sequencing

 

Activity Two: Angie and the Carnival

Students are introduced to a storybook character and her plans to earn money by making and selling crafts at a carnival.

 

  

  

 

Objectives:  The students will:

-define money

-identify one form of money (coins)

-differentiate coins

Concepts: buying, choices, consumer, earning, entrepreneurs, incentives, money, saving, spending, work

Skills: coin recognition, coin valuation, following directions, interpreting information, listening responsively, matching

 

Activity Three: Charlie Plants a Garden

Students learn how the storybook characters work together to plant a community garden.

 

  

Objectives: The students will:

-recognize the importance of working together

-discover rewards other than money

Concepts: benefit, choices, resources, rewards, work

Skills: abstract thinking, decision making, following directions, listening responsively, teamwork

Activity Four: Meagan Buys a Present

Students recognize the importance of saving money to buy something they want through a story about a girl who must save to buy a birthday present.

 

Objectives: The students will:

-discuss the importance of saving money

-identify a place where people save money

-demonstrate how to save money

-name something they would like to save for

Concepts: buying, choice, costs, earning, money, saving, scarcity, wants, work

Skills: coin recognition, coin valuation, following directions, listening responsively, matching

Activity Five: Dylan and the New Playground

Students learn how storybook characters save money to buy new playground equipment for their school.

 

 

Objectives: The students will:

-identify ways money can be used to benefit others

-recognize the value of work

-appreciate the importance of giving

Concepts: benefit, giving, saving, scarcity, work

Skills: abstract thinking, following directions, listening responsively, matching, sequencing, teamwork