Idaho Social Studies 2.SS.3.3

Social Studies2nd GradeEconomics

The Standard

Examine different types of producers and consumers as well as goods and services.

Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify who makes or provides something and who uses or buys it. They tell the difference between goods, such as bread, and services, such as a haircut.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can explain that a baker produces bread and a shopper consumes it. They can also explain that a barber provides a service and that the same person can be both a producer and a consumer.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think only objects count as things people buy, so they miss services like haircuts. They may also think a producer cannot be a consumer.
How to Assess It: Ask: “A baker makes bread and pays a barber for a haircut. Who produces each thing? Who consumes each thing? Which is a good, and which is a service?”

Lesson moves

Give pairs picture cards of bread, a haircut, a baker, and a shopper; have them sort goods, services, producers, and consumers.
Ask partners: “A baker makes bread and buys a haircut. When is the baker a producer, and when a consumer?”
Play four corners: read “grows carrots,” “buys carrots,” “carrot,” or “haircut”; students move to producer, consumer, good, or service.
Show a sample grocery receipt; have students circle milk, name the dairy farmer as producer, and identify the shopper as consumer.

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