Unit 12 Economics Lesson

This resource is a teacher developed curriculum unit that can be used to teach economics to kindergarten to second grade. This unit includes twelve lessons over various economic topics. Each lesson integrates mathematics concepts that go along with the main economic focus. Many of the lessons are broken up into two sessions that can be taught over an extended period of time. The lessons include all essential part needed for a teacher to easily be able to use. The lessons provide standards and objectives that are met in either instruction or activities. The time that each lesson and session will take is clearly listed on each of the lesson plans. There are clearly written procedure and closure plans included for each lesson. The lessons worksheets

These are the base of what students need to know in order to build their economic understanding. Each economic concept is paired with a match concept to help extend the students understanding. Although I think this is a fantastic way to integrate subjects, I do not feel that most of the concepts interline enough. For the tenth lesson in this unit, the economic concept is human capital. The math concept for this lesson is shapes. The activity in this lesson then focuses more on the math concepts rather than the economic concepts. I think that there should be more of an economic focus since this is a specifically economic unit. There are some lessons in which I believe math and economics is integrated in a way that is very beneficial to the students. When talking about productive resources, the connecting math concept is time. This talks about how producers have limited time when producing goods. In these cases, I think that integrating these math concepts works very

Strengths: Overall, I think that this curriculum unit would be very easy to use. Teachers could easily look over the lesson plans and be able to teach the lessons without any difficulty understanding. Everything needed in a lesson plan is included for teachers to refer to when preparing and teaching these lessons. All of the procedures and assessment activities are detailed and easy for teachers to use. The objectives and standards are labeled clearly at the top of each lesson plan so that the teacher knows what the students should be able to do by the end of the lesson.

Each lesson includes additional activities and worksheets that can be used to extend the lesson and assess students understanding. This prevents teachers from having to find or create their own assessments. The worksheets are found at the end of the lesson plan and include an easy to use answer key. There are even visuals included within the lesson plan that teachers can use during the lesson. There are a list of additional materials that the teacher would need to have at the beginning of the lesson. The teacher can easily look at this and have all the materials necessary ready before the lesson