Lesson 3: Goods and Services

Getting Started

Questions to Explore

• What do the communities provide for the people who live in them?
• What are the needs of people in communities?

Facts and Definitions

• Communities provide goods and services for the people who live in them.
• Goods are items that we purchase in the community to use or eat.
• A service is something someone does for us.

Summary of Skills

• Examine the wants and needs of people in a community (SS)
• Recognize that all families produce and consume goods and services (SS)
• Practice single-digit addition (M)
• Model addition and subtraction problems (M)
• Compare objects in a set (M)
• Write using an author's model of language (LA)
• Read aloud independently with fluency and comprehension (LA)

Materials

• If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff

Introduction