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ERIC Number: ED151260
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1977
Pages: 165
Abstractor: N/A
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Economic Education in the Elementary Schools, Level 2.
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. Div. of Instructional Planning and Support.
Part two in a series of elementary level economics and consumer education teaching resources, this guide is designed for use with second and third graders. It identifies objectives for economic and consumer education established by the Florida State Department of Education, defines important related concepts and terms, and lists general audiovisual and print resources. The main part of the guide contains specific ideas for class activities to accompany each concept and objective. Key concepts at this level include scarcity, exchange and money, consumption, production, distribution, and economic interdependence. At least six activities are suggested for each concept. For example, to help students understand consumption as the using up of goods and services, one activity requires them to identify what is being consumed when a family eats dinner, does a laundry, or washes dishes. To dramatize the efficacy of specialization, students are encouraged to role play a family situation in which mother, father, sister, and brother all try at once to set the table or wash dishes. Then they role play the scene again with a division of labor. Each series of activities is accompanied by a listing of children's literature resources and Florida state-adopted textual resources to supplement the concepts being emphasized. (AV)
Publication Type: Guides - General
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Authoring Institution: Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. Div. of Instructional Planning and Support.
Identifiers - Location: Florida
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