This document provides guidance for teaching students to identify goods. It includes a lesson plan where students will cut out pictures from a worksheet and categorize them as goods or not goods. They will then make collages of goods by cutting out pictures from magazines and gluing them onto paper. Finally, students will share their collages and explain how the items are examples of goods. The goal is for students to learn to distinguish goods, which are possessions and articles of trade, from other things.
2. 1.4.1 Identify goods that people use. Indiana Academic Standards http://www.indianastandards.org/resources.asp?Subject=soc&Grade=1&Standard=4&Indicator=1.4.1&Resource=5155 Link to Standard Activity http://www.indianastandards.org/files/soc/ss_1_4_1.pdf Standard Indicator
3. 1. Cut out the pictures on the BLM A Good or Not a Good? and glue them onto index cards. 2. Draw a wishing well on the board. Pre-Activity Preperation
5. 1. Direct students’ attention to the wishing well. 2. Have them name things they wish they had and write their wishes in and around the wishing well. 3. Discuss students’ wishes. Explain that everyone has wants; name some things that adults typically want. 4. Tell students that tangible things that people want are called goods. Pre-Activity Discussion
6. 1. Explain to students that you are going to show them pictures and that they are going to identify the pictures as goods or not goods. 2. Direct students to give you a thumbs-up if the picture shows a good and to show you a thumbs-down if the pictures does not show a good. 3. Show students a picture from the BLM A Good or Not a Good? and look for responses. 4. Select a student to explain his/her response. 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 with all the pictures from the BLM. Thumbs up/Thumbs down
7. Good Collages 1. Tell students that they are going to create collages of goods by cutting out pictures and gluing them on construction paper. 2. Give each student a piece of construction paper and scissors. 3. Set magazines, catalogs, newspapers, and glue where they can be easily shared. 4. Direct students to create collages of goods. Good Sharing 1. Have students share their collages with the class. 2. Direct students to explain how the items on their collages are goods. 3. Use the collages to create a bulletin board with a heading such as “Room 19 Does Good Work!” Help students understand the pun. Activity Continued
8. Goods- possessions, esp. movable effects or personal property. articles of trade; wares; merchandise. Wishing-Well- a well or pool of water supposed to grant the wish of one who tosses a coin into it. Definitions