Idaho Social Studies 3.SS.3.3

Social Studies3rd GradeEconomics

The Standard

Explain how land, natural resources, labor, trade, and/or technology affect economic activities in the local community.

Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify the space, materials, workers, deliveries, and tools a local business uses. They explain how those things affect what the business can make or sell.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can explain that a bakery needs bakers to make bread and flour from a farm to keep baking. They can explain how an oven helps the bakers make more loaves and how the shop's location affects its customers.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think stores make everything they sell, rather than getting some goods or materials from other places. They may think an oven makes bread on its own, without ingredients or workers.
How to Assess It: Write: 'A bakery has bakers, flour delivered from a farm, and a new oven.' Ask students to pick two details and explain how each affects the bread the bakery can sell.

Lesson moves

Give groups cards labeled shop, wheat, baker, delivery truck, and oven; have them arrange the cards to show how bread reaches customers.
Ask pairs, 'What would a bakery do if its flour delivery stopped?' Have them write one likely change and its cause.
Play a matching game with business cards and effect cards, such as 'new oven' and 'more loaves baked each day.'
Use a local grocery flyer to pick one fruit and explain how buying it from growers elsewhere gives neighbors more choices.

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