Interdisciplinary Approaches to Consumer Culture

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 12.01.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Objective: Do you teach the same population I do?
  2. My students
  3. Rationale
  4. Teaching Impoverished Children
  5. Describing your consumer choice may change you as a consumer.
  6. Marketing Tricks
  7. Books that influenced this unit.
  8. The Big Idea
  9. Technology tools and classroom meetings
  10. Classroom Activities
  11. Appendix A: Implementing District Standards
  12. Annotated Teacher Bibliography
  13. Endnotes

Do We Really Need What We Want?: Consumerism and Second Graders

Mary Grace Flowers

Published September 2012

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Appendix A: Implementing District Standards

Economics Standard One: Students will analyze the potential costs and benefits of personal economic choices in a market economy

K-3a: Students will understand that individuals and families with limited resources undertake a wide variety of activities to satisfy their wants.

Economics Standard Two: Students will examine the interaction of individuals, families, communities, businesses, and governments in a market economy

K-3a: Students will understand how barter, money, and other media are employed to facilitate the exchange of resources, goods, and services.

Comments:

Cecil Johnson

September 1, 2020 at 12:47 pm

First Year Teaching Subject

I am a new teacher teaching Family and Consumer Science at the Middle School level. I am currently trying to take years of business experience and create an interesting teaching moment for my students. Consuerism is the topic that I think is improtant to get my students up and runnning for the semester.

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