Our Families emphasizes the roles people play in the local economy and engages students with activities about needs, wants, jobs, tools and skills, and interdependence. Five required, volunteer-led activities.
Our Families Common Core Standards
The key learning objectives listed beside each activity state the skills and knowledge students will gain.
| Activity One: Our Families
Students better understand what a family is by studying a poster. They discover how people in a family are alike and different and how they work together to make where they live a good place. |
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Students will be able to:
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| Activity Two: Our Families’ Needs and Wants
Students become aware that all families must have food, clothing, and shelter to live. They begin to understand the difference between a need and a want. |
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Students will be able to:
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| Activity Three: Our Families’ Jobs
Students learn how jobs provide for family members’ needs and wants. They draw pictures of family members doing jobs. |
Key Learning Objectives
Students will be able to:
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| Activity Four: Finding Our Families’ Needs and Wants
Students use a floor map to discover where members of a family would go to obtain their needs and wants. |
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Students will be able to:
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| Activity Five: Paying for Our Families’ Needs and Wants
Students learn about the importance of working to pay for needs and wants. Through role-playing, they demonstrate working and paying for these needs |
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Students will be able to:
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Our Families enhances students’ learning of the following concepts and skills:
Concepts–Business, Choices, Consumers, Earning, Economic incentives, Economic institutions, Employment, Family, Human resources, Incentives, Income, Interdependence, Jobs, Money, Needs, Resources, Scarcity, Skills, Spending, Tools, Voluntary exchange, Wants, Work
Skills–Analyzing information, Decision-making, Differentiating, Drawing, Following directions, Interpreting symbols, Listening responsively, Making observations, Map reading, Matching, Recognizing symbols, Sequencing, Teamwork
Our Families is a series of five activities recommended for students in first grade. The average time for each activity is 30 minutes. Materials are packaged in a self-contained kit that includes detailed activity plans for the volunteer and materials for 30 students.
