This website provides a digital activity or game that the students can play to enhance their knowledge of goods and services. The game has three levels. The first level the students have to sort goods and services. The second level requires the students to identify the service. The third and last level connects to math. This level connects earning money to services. It requires the students to choose the services Ava does to earn $10 or more to buy a book. This technology connection would get the students in engaged because it is similar to a game. It is a valuable resource because it allows the students to practice identifying goods and services and connects it the real life of earning money to buy something they would want.
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This local business sells frozen yogurt, shaved ice, dippin’ dots, t-shirts, and ice cream. By touring this business, the students can understand the economics behind a business and goods that it sells. This field trip would provide a real-world example of goods that are sold, but also real-world examples of who the producers and consumers are in this business and how the people working at this business do so because they need to earn money. This field trip allows the students to get a real-world example of economics. During this field trip the students could tour the business, talk with the employees and owners, and then have an opportunity to purchase some frozen yogurt and become a consumer. This field trip can also connect to math, whenever paying for the yogurt because they charge $0.53 per ounce. You can explain to the students how for every ounce of yogurt and toppings you have to pay $0.53. For example, if you get 3 ounces of yogurt, you would have to pay $0.53 + $0.53 + $0.53 = $1.59. This field trip would only cost however much for the students buy some frozen yogurt. The yogurt would be limited, and the students would only be able to get a certain amount of yogurt and 1 topping. To arrange this field trip, you can contact The Mix by calling them at (229) 506-5335 or emailing them at hello@mixvaldosta.com. The owners of The Mix are Brian and
Entry 3 Economics: …show more content…
This local business sells frozen yogurt, shaved ice, dippin’ dots, t-shirts, and ice cream. By touring this business, the students can understand the economics behind a business and goods that it sells. This field trip would provide a real-world example of goods that are sold, but also real-world examples of who the producers and consumers are in this business and how the people working at this business do so because they need to earn money. This field trip allows the students to get a real-world example of economics. During this field trip the students could tour the business, talk with the employees and owners, and then have an opportunity to purchase some frozen yogurt and become a consumer. This field trip can also connect to math, whenever paying for the yogurt because they charge $0.53 per ounce. You can explain to the students how for every ounce of yogurt and toppings you have to pay $0.53. For example, if you get 3 ounces of yogurt, you would have to pay $0.53 + $0.53 + $0.53 = $1.59. This field trip would only cost however much for the students buy some frozen yogurt. The yogurt would be limited, and the students would only be able to get a certain amount of yogurt and 1 topping. To arrange this field trip, you can contact The Mix by calling them at (229) 506-5335 or emailing them at hello@mixvaldosta.com. The owners of The Mix are Brian and