Idaho Social Studies 1.SS.3.1

Social Studies1st GradeEconomics

The Standard

Identify ways people meet their needs by sharing, trading, and using money to buy goods and services.

Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students name things people need, such as food and clothing. They explain how people can get what they need by sharing, trading, or paying money for goods and services.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can tell that giving someone bread is sharing, swapping bread for an apple is trading, and paying for bread is buying. They can explain that a haircut is a service, not a thing to take home.
Common Misconceptions: Students may call any exchange a trade, even when one person pays money. They may think sharing means getting something back, or that a toy is a need like food.
How to Assess It: On an exit ticket, show three pictures: someone giving bread to a friend, two people swapping foods, and someone paying for bread. Ask students to label each one share, trade, or buy.

Lesson moves

Give pairs paper apples, paper bread, and play coins to act out sharing food, trading food, and buying food.
Ask, 'How could you get bread if you had no money but had an apple?' Have students draw and explain one idea.
Call out 'pay for a haircut,' 'give someone bread,' and 'swap apples for bread'; students hold up buy, share, or trade cards.
Show a grocery receipt with bread and candy; ask students to circle the need and find how much money was paid.

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