Unit 3: Needs and Wants 1.9 and 1.10

Title / Resource Type / Annotation
BrainPOP Jr - Social Studies / BrainPOP Jr - database / Economics topics include Needs and Wants, Goods and Services, and Saving and Spending. https://jr.brainpop.com/
**Needs and Wants resource lists / Follett Destiny - database / Various trade books and library books throughout the district on topics such as goods and services, needs and wants, consumers and producers, scarcity, and money.
·  Harris Hill
·  Scribner
·  Indian Landing
·  Cobbles
All About Money / PebbleGo - database / Topics include What is Money, History of Money, Needs and Wants, Making Choices, Saving Money, Earning Money, Credit, What Do Banks Do, Goods and Services, Consumers and Producers, Supply and Demand, Scarcity. http://www.pebblego.com/login/
If You Made a Million/All About Money / Book Flix / Fiction/nonfiction pairing. Describes the various forms which money can take, including coins, paper money, and personal checks, and how it can be used to make purchases, pay off loans, or build interest in the bank. http://bkflix.grolier.com/
Needs and Wants / Reading A-Z - Printable Book / What do we want? What do we really need? Students will learn the difference between requirements and desires in this helpful leveled reader. https://www.readinga-z.com/
Economics District Playlist / Safari Montage - videos / https://media.monroe.edu/?p=46e43267-2fd8-11e5-b56d-782bcb297637
Economics Playlist / YouTube - videos / https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0bj2aaAmvZcrfmd0QB3nmY_zWhQIh96B
Needs vs. Wants / PBS Learning Media - website / In this media-rich lesson featuring aLOOP SCOOPSvideo, students are introduced to the concept of “needs” vs. “wants,” and begin to consider the relationship between consumer goods and happiness. http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/lpsc10.sci.life.lp_needwant/needs-vs-wants/
Ready to Give / Scholastic News - website / Students learn about economics relating to buying a gift, and identify whether certain gifts are goods or services. Nov-Dec 2013 http://sni.scholastic.com/SN1/11_04_13_SN1
What Can I Buy? / Read Works - website / "What Can I Buy?" with Paired Text"All About Money" and Paired Text Questions. These texts have been paired because they share the topic of spending money. Lexile Levels: 230 and 330 http://www.readworks.org/passages/what-can-i-buy#tab-paired-text
What is a Budget? / Read Works - website / http://www.readworks.org/passages/what-budget by Susan LaBella
How to Use Savings / The Mint - website / Earned money or gotten it as a gift? What do you do with it? Run right out and spend it? http://www.themint.org/kids/saving-basics.html
The ABC’s of Saving / Econedlink - slideshow / Explains the concept of saving money. http://www.econedlink.org/interactives/EconEdLink-interactive-tool-player.php?lid=414&filename=em414_story.swf
Meet Me at the Mall / Planning in Paradise - website / Activity where kids learn about goods and services, but living as producers and consumers... earning money, designing products, establishing stores, creating ads, and more!
http://planninginparadise.blogspot.com/2015/11/meet-me-at-mall.html​

Unit 3: ELA

Title / Resource Type / Annotation
Persuasive/Opinion Writing resource list / Follett Destiny - database / ·  Harris Hill
·  Scribner
·  Indian Landing
·  Cobbles
Would You Rather? / You Tube – video / Reading of John Burningham’s book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oVXaExvmMY