We don’t give our children an allowance in our home. The economy and financial climate of our household has just never allowed for such things. I grew up getting an allowance and it was a gre…

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{Download FREEBIE pack here.} Economics is my absolute FAVORITE social studies unit to teach. There are so many hands-on activities to do with students and they are so eager to earn and spend money! One of my favorite activities is to end with our "Madden's Marketplace." This is a chance for students to put into action all of the things they have learned about being producers and consumers. To begin with, I send home a letter asking students to create paper goods. Why paper? It's something all of my students have at home (or I can easily give them). I want my marketplace to be fair for all students. I'm sure I could let them have the freedom to create any product, using any materials and I would get some amazing masterpieces. I would also get some elaborate (and expensive) items. That's not what I want. I encourage parents to spend NO money on this and for it to be STUDENT CREATED. I really want them to take the initiative. Here are some samples of paper products my students created to sell this year - everything from rockets to bookmarks to lanterns to hats. I incorporate the making of goods into my students' homework schedule, encouraging them to create two products per night. Before the due date, we work on creating "shops" in class. We create our "shop" by gluing two file folders together. The picture below is using legal-sized file folders, but that just happens to be what we had available. Shop Parts: Signs: Initially, we create the signs for our shops, color the awnings to make them eye-catching. Open/Closed: Next, we create open/closed signs that sit atop our shop so we can easily flip the sign to show the status of our shops. Slogan: We then come up with a catchy slogan. We talk about slogan's we know from commercials. Why did those stick in our heads? We learn to use a play on words, alliteration, onomatopoeia, etc. to make our slogans catchy so consumers will remember them. Product Description: Students each write a product description detailing WHAT their product is and HOW it works or can be used. We talk about the importance of letting consumers know exactly what they are getting. Commercial Script: Finally, students write commercials to "sell" their products to their classmates. We use hooks to get their attention, repetitions of our catchy slogans, and persuasion. Other Components: We also glue on the Consumer Comments, Price, and Interest Inventories, but we leave all of those blank initially. On the day of the marketplace, students set up their shops and lay their products out on display. Then, they have a chance to walk around the classroom and "window shop." They are encouraged to take a good look at all of their options, reading the product descriptions and examining the merchandise. After students have had a good look at all of their choices, I give them stickers (I would recommend 3-4). They walk around and place their stickers on the "Interest Inventory" of the products that interest them the most. The results of the interest inventory are used by the shop owners to determine if they have a high demand or low demand for their products. Knowing the demand helps them determine a price for their product. High demand = higher price. Low demand = lower price. The only rule is that all prices have to be in whole dollars. Once prices are set, then students are ready to go shopping! There are many different ways to let students shop. Some years, if I've done economy-based management system, my students will use "money" they've earned to shop. This year, I just gave them all $12 to shop with. I'm always torn about letting my students split into groups to run their shops (half shop while half work) - it always seems that students don't get to shop at all of the stores in that scenario. To solve that problem, I let all of my students shop at the same time. To do this students create "tokens" to leave at their shop. They create the same number as products they have to sell. For example, if Katie has 10 kites to sell, she creates and leaves 10 tokens with her name or shop name on them. Once each shop has tokens, students are ready to shop. Since there are no workers at the shops to collect money, I give my students "consumer spending logs" with pictures of dollars on them. Since I gave my students 12 dollars to spend, their consumer spending logs had 12 one dollar pictures. As students go around to the shops, they color in the dollars they've spent and pick up tokens (NOT products) that they will trade in for their purchases once the shops close. Once all of the tokens are gone, that shop is "closed." Once a student has colored in all of the dollars on his/her spending log, they are done shopping. It really works out quite well. Once students have traded all of their tokens in for their goods, they are given paper for providing feedback to the shops. They slip these into the "consumer comments" pockets on the storefronts. They love reading the feedback from their customers! <3 After wrapping up our shops, students are often left with some extra products. Instead of having them take their own products back home, I let them put another economics concept into practice - BARTERING! They have a blast working out "fair swaps" for their products and really working to get the other things they may have wanted but didn't have the money to purchase...and of course, they do all of this while proudly wearing some of their favorite purchases. :) All in all, it is a fun day of learning. Students take their roles as both producers and consumers seriously and come away with a real sense of accomplishment! If you would like to download this packet of FREE resources to hold your own Economics shop, you can do so HERE. Enjoy!

Tosi hauska askarteluhomma tämä pieni teatteri hahmoineen! Leikkasin pahvilaatikon pohjaan reiän jättäen reunoille parin sentin kehykset. Leikkasin pohjan kokoisen palan valkoisesta silkkipaperista ja liimasin paperin laatikon sisäpuolelle kiinni reunoihin. Valmista tuli, mutta lisäsin vielä ylijääneestä pahvista "teatteri"-kyltin ja pensaan ja kukat Punahilkka-sadun teemaan sopivaksi. Yhdessä päätettiin lapsen kanssa, että tehdään Punahilkka-hahmot. Vielä pitäisi askarrella Punahilkan äiti, niin kaikki sadun henkilöt olisivat käytettävissä. Illalla lapsi toivoi, että esittäisin iltasadunkin niin, että hän saisi katsella varjoteatteria sängystä. Sehän sopi :) Keksimme muuten, että paras taustavalo esitykselle on otsalamppu esittäjän päässä! / / / Such a fun project, this little shadow puppet theatre. We decided to make a Little Red Riding Hood themed one. Just cut a rectangle shaped hole on a cardboard box bottom and cover it with white silk paper. I also made a sign, a bush and flowers from the leftover cardboard. We noticed that the best source of light behind the scene is a headlamp!

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I love social studies and how it mixes so well with everything that we are doing in ELA!! Right now, we are reading “The Lemonade War”! My kiddos love it and so do I! The best part is that it fits perfectly into our Economics standards! We use this novel study to go through the ... Read More about Market Day Economics Project

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Looking for things for kids to make and sell at school (maybe for market day?). Here’s 19 unique things to sell at school.

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The other day in the car, my eight-year-old son and I were talking and, for a reason which now escapes me, the conversation gravitated to the venus flytrap, that crazy carnivorous plant that eats bugs. Having watched a Wild Kratts tv show episode on these mind-boggling plants, I knew we had to capitalize on my son's burgeoning interest. This craft made hands-on learning possible. All you need is a glue gun, scissors, two paper plates, green and red paint, paintbrushes, and a green giant (1.9m) chenille pipe cleaner. Markers and bug stickers are optional but highly recommended. Here's how we did it (although you can probably just look at the pictures to figure out it). Fold a paper plate in half. Trim the corners. Cut "u" shapes out of the edge of each side of the paper plate. Offset the fringe on the second side so they fit between each other when closed. Cut the center out of the second plate. Fold the circle in half. Put it inside the fringed plate and cut the corners that overhang. Paint the outside of the fringed plate green. We used acrylic craft paint. (Use a hair dryer to speed up drying time if necessary.) Paint the fringe on the other side of the plate (the middle of the plate will be covered with the clipped circle so you don't have to paint it). Paint one side off the clipped circle red. When the paint has dried, an adult should place a bead of glue from a glue gun in the center of the painted fringed plate along the fold. Place a giant green chenille stem there to glue it in place. Glue the red clipped circle over the top of the chenille stem, on the inside of the fringed plate. Ta-da! Now you can add trigger hairs to the inside of the flytrap with marker and/or add bug stickers. Your venus flytrap is done! Our boys both had a blast with this craft. The oldest was able to do all the steps himself (with the exception of using the glue gun). Our youngest (age 4 1/2) loved painting the cut out shapes. Both had a blast trapping our foamies bugs! We read some great books to learn about carnivorous plants. All of these were a hit with us. After learning about pitcher plants in one of the books, my oldest boy is now begging me to help him craft one. We may end up with a whole bouquet of these meat-eating plants! This craftivity was adapted from Teaching Little Learners.

For the second year in a row, my daughter is participating in a local event put on my town where vendors come together the first weekend in May to sell items. It’s kind of like a street fair meets flea market. There are food trucks, craft items, pottery, jewelry, clothing, and more for sale at this young entrepreneur's event. Last year my daughter sold brownies and lemonade. This year we are brainstorming what to have in her booth. I want her to be able to make it herself mostly but also be PROFITABLE. Introducing Kids to Money Making Crafts

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