Virginia SOL 1.8.b
The Standard
describing how people can be both consumers and producers
Virginia Standards of Learning for History and Social Science
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify when a person makes or provides something and when a person buys or uses it. They explain how one person can take both roles.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student correctly labels each role in a simple example. The student can give a personal example, such as buying bread and making a card to sell.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think each person has only one role. They may also think producers only make objects, not services such as haircuts or bus rides.
How to Assess It
- Ask: “Mia bakes cookies to sell, then buys a book. What role does she have in each action, and why?”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Set up a classroom market with paper goods and tokens, then have students switch between making, selling, buying, and using items.
Ask students to draw and explain one time they provided something and one time they bought or used something.
Play a role-sorting game using cards showing bakers, shoppers, barbers, passengers, farmers, and restaurant customers.
Study a local restaurant and list what workers provide, what customers purchase, and what the workers buy outside their jobs.
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