Texas TEKS 2.7

Social Studies2nd GradeEconomics

TEKS Knowledge Statement (Expectation Cluster)

Economics. The student understands the roles of producers and consumers in the production of goods and services. The student is expected to:

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies

Cluster contents

2.7 is a TEKS knowledge and skills statement. These are the student expectations under it.

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students tell whether a person is making or providing something, or using or buying it. They explain how one person can do both and sequence how a resource becomes a product.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student correctly labels producers and consumers in familiar examples. The student can trace a product, such as bread, from wheat through processing and sale.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think producers only work in factories or that consumers only buy goods. They may skip processing steps or confuse natural resources with finished products.
How to Assess It: Give this exit ticket: “A baker buys flour, bakes bread, and sells it. When is the baker a consumer and a producer? Order wheat, flour, bread.”

Lesson moves

Give pairs picture cards showing workers, shoppers, resources, and products, then have students sort and connect matching cards with yarn.
Ask students to write about one day when they were a consumer and someone in their family was a producer.
Play charades using cards such as haircut, sandwich, teacher, customer, farmer, and shopper while classmates identify each role.
Examine a cotton shirt label, then trace cotton from a farm through a textile mill, clothing factory, store, and buyer.

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