Learning Targets:
Targets for knowledge, skills, and behaviours below are possible targets. It is not expected that all will be covered by a single Teaching Unit. Teachers can select their learning targets using the Teaching Units provided (to the right), adaptations of these Teaching Units, or Units/Lesson Plans they develop on their own.
KNOW:
- An economy’s role is to use available resources to produce and distribute products and services needed and wanted by consumers
- Countries have different types, and quantities, of resources
- Features of Canada’s early economy
- Difference between needs and wants
- Businesses are set up to combine resources to produce products and services consumers need and want and will buy
- Specialization helps societies produce more and better things
- Specialization leads to the need for exchange and interdependence among people, communities, and countries
- Governments produce and provide some of the goods and services people need and want
BE ABLE TO:
- Participate in the production of something to experience how specialization can increase and improve production
- Identify key resources used in their community
- Describe how resources in their community are used to produce products and services
- Identify jobs that people do that help produce goods and services in their community
ACTION/BEHAVIOUR:
- Consider how people in their community are different in the resources they have and what they can acquire
- Look for ways to help others in their community who are in need
- Think about jobs they would like to consider in the future
