Integrated Literacy Assignment

Maggie O’Brien

Standards

• 2-E1.0.1 Identify the opportunity cost involved in a consumer decision

• 2-E1.0.2 Identify businesses in the local community

• 2-E1.0.3 Describe how businesses in the local community meet economic wants and needs

• 2-E1.0.4 Describe the natural, human, and capital resources needed for production of a good or service in a community.

Books

• The Bag I’m Taking to Grandma’s

• How Much is That Doggie In the Window?

Lesson Plans

Video

School House Rock video

-shows opportunity cost

Poetry

 If I Could Build a Town  Betsy Franco 

 If I could build a town, well then, I know just what I'd make: an ice cream store, a toy shop, and a store with bread and cake.

 I guess I'd make a park  and build a nifty fire station. Say, would you like to help me? It just takes imagination!

 Main Street  Betsy Franco 

 The bookstore, / the sports store, / the grocery,

 The post office,/ bank, and the / library,

 The firehouse, / the clinic, / the town police.

 The pet store, / the shoe store, / the bakery.

 I gave you / a tour all along / our main street.

 Now don't you / agree that / our city is neat?

Websites that support the GLCE

Identifies buildings in common communities

-interactive website for students

Games

Political Cartoons

Oh Give Me a ChoiceTune: Home on the Range

Oh give me a choice,Oh, a difficult choice, And I'll think aboutwhat I could use,I'll have to decide,With my eyes open wideWhat I'll give up and what I will choose. Opportunity Cost!It's the thing you give up when you choose.It's the price that is paidWhen a choice must be made.It's the thing that I surely will lose.

We've Been Working on ProductionTune: I've Been Working on the Railroad

We've been working on production,All the livelong day.We've been working on production,Just to make some goods this way.

We use natural resources,Such as land, and oil, and trees.We use capital resources,Such as tools and factories.Now we will work!Now we will work!When we use our human resources.

Now we will work!Now we will work!We use our human resources.

Community Map

References

• Chambers, M. (2005). Family Squeeze. Retrieved from http://www.philcallaway.ab.ca/Books/Family%20Squeeze/Family%20Squeeze%20cartoons.htm

• Col, J. (1998) Enchanted Learning: City Map Reading Activity #2. Retrieved from http://www.EnchantedLearning.com

• Franco, B. (2014). If I Could Build a Town. Retrieved from http://www.jologriffin.com/gazillion.cfm?subpage=25700

• Franco, B. (2014) . Main Street. Retrieved from http://www.jologriffin.com/gazillion.cfm?subpage=25700

• Hopkins, M. (2005, August 1). Oh, Give Me a Choice. Retrienved from http://www.kidseconposters.com/singalongs/oh-give-me-a-choice

• Hopkins, M. (2005, August 1). We’ve Been Working On Production. Retrienved from http://www.kidseconposters.com/singalongs/oh-give-me-a-choice/

• Iza Trapani. (2004) How Much Is That Doggie in the Window. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge Publishing, Inc

• Noles, G. (2007). Lemonade Stand. Retrieved from http://www.ae4rv.com/games/lemonade.htm

References (cont.)

• Rees, S., Dodson, M. (2014). Stu’s Views: Law Cartoons by Maddy and Stu. Retrieved from http://www.stus.com/stus-search.php

• Schoolhouse Rock. (1986) Seven Fifty Once A Week. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GawH48QNDfc&index=5&list=PL6788E38247A8F81F

• Sedivy, N. (2003, September 30). Communities – What They Provide for Us. Retrieved from http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lid=310&type=educator

• Shirley Neitzel. (1998) The Bag I’m Taking to Grandma’s. New York, NY: Greenwillow Books.

• Stover L. F. (2014). Henry Hikes: Opportunity Cost. Retrieved from http://williamcwood.com/econed/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Henry-Hikes-to-Fitchburg-Opportunity-Cost-.pdf

• Stover L. F., Haynes, B. F. (2014). Pancake Problems. Retrieved from http://librarysparks.com/pdf/librarysparks/2010/lsp_apr10_ll_cloudy_meat.pdf

• U.S. Government Printing Office. (1999, December 23). Your Neighborhood. Retrieved from http://bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/neighborhood/index.html