Bartering Lesson Plans - LessonCorner

1. Money as a Means of Exchange
...rade Lesson 4- Money as a Means of Exchange Objective: Students will explain that money is a means of exchange for goods and services in our society. Economic Words chart from previous Materials: lessons Ox Cart Man by Donald Hall, A New Coat for Anna by Harriet Ziefert or Jack and the Beanstalk 30 bartering cards- Teacher prepares cards in advance. From catalogs, magazines, newspapers, etc., cut out a variety of items you think students' families would need and want. Paste them on index cards. Economic Concepts/Vocabulary: Bartering and Money as a means of exchange Economic Concepts/ Bartering Vocabula...

2. Title of Lesson: Tools Make A Difference#110
...tool, how it is useful, and why someone else would want it. Evaluation/Assessment: Did the student's advertisement capture the essence of the trading? Enrichment/Extension: Visit a museum with a collection of early American tools such as the Precision Museum in Windsor, VT. Role play trading and/or bartering with another student. Relate the differences between bartering and trading and selling. Reflection: How successful was this lesson? Did all students benefit? Were there any surprises? What might you do differently another time? Please note any changes that will make this lesson more effective and us...

3. Barter!Barter!Barter!
...nt see www.burlington.k12.il.us /ll/assess (Knowledge, Reasoning) Description: Variety of work sheets. These are a combination of matching, multiple choice, fill in the blank. See www. burlington.k12.il.us/ll/assess (Knowledge) Personal Communication: Description:Interview - with students after the bartering activity. The students discussed the pros and cons of bartering without money being involved. (Knowledge, Reasoning) Description:Class discussion - The class discussed the bartering activity. (Knowledge, Reasoning) Performance Assessments: Description: Create poster to advertise item to barter. Expl...

4. Thanksgiving
...l/University/Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Johnstown, PA Date: September 14, 2000 Grade Level: 3 Subject(s): Social Studies/US History Duration: 50 minutes Description: Students review aspects of the Thanksgiving holiday by listening to a Thanksgiving story, participating in a bartering activity, and creating turkey "feathers" for a bulletin board. Goals: Students will appreciate Thanksgiving and understand the meaning and origins of the holiday. Objectives: 1. The students will answer review questions about Thanksgiving. 2. The students will be able to trace the Pilgrims' route fr...

5. A Day in the Life -- Colonial Williamsburg
...LAN OBJECTIVES This lesson provides materials that will familiarize To Run a Household students with colonial America's economic system. It provides students with a look into the business practices A Merchant's Account of the time period. The focus is on understanding the significance of credit and bartering for goods. An Apprentice's Life STANDARDS Enslaved To see how this lesson plan correlates to your state standards, use this link to ExplorAsource. You will see the name of this lesson plan listed as the "Resource" on this ExplorAsource page. Next, select a document type from Print a Student the "Doc...

6. EconEdLink | EconomicsMinute | Lewis and Clark Barter with the Native Americans
...w of this lesson Review this lesson Find other related lessons Find related lessons EconomicsMinute Lewis and Clark Barter with the Native Americans Key Economic Concepts: Barter Description: Using the study of the Lewis and Clark expedition students will define the term barter and give examples of bartering. Lesson Objectives: us map Students will define the term barter and give examples of bartering in the following areas: The nation and Thomas Jefferson's interest in an exploration of trade routes to the pacific northwest as part of the westward expansion of the country. The mission of discovery and...

7. Bartering--A System of Exchange
...ity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, finds the most innovative and successful practices in K?12 education and makes them available to the teachers and students of North Carolina ? and the world. Lesson Plans Bartering A System of Exchange By participating in a game called "Barter Bag" students will be introduced to the concept of trade. This introduces students to the concept of bartering. A lesson plan for Grade 3 Social Studies by Carlene M. White Lesson contents Learning outcomes Teacher planning Pre-activitie...

8. yr8 Trusting Others 2
...ns This lesson think about: what IS money? How does it work? Students to engage with this by a series of activities looking at the history of money, and how making money work actually involves TRUST. Why do we need money? TO BUY, TO MEASURE VALUE What did people do before money? Traded using goods, bartering In groups of three students to think of 3 problems there might be with trading in goods. For example: Imagine they are a peasant farmer who grows potatoes and keeps a few goats but has no cash income (SUGGEST TO STUDENTS THAT THIS IS STILL THE CASE IN SOME PLACES IN THE WORLD eg many parts of Africa...

9. EconEdLink | EconomicsMinute | You Can BANK on This! Part 1: Money
...Secret How you heard Why you picked the question about the site site The characteristics of money: Interactive Activity Comparing money and barter: Interactive Venn Diagram Process: A few basic concepts are the premise for this lesson. 1. Money is a form of an exchange and it is widely used because bartering is not as efficient. 2. To serve efficiently as a medium of exchange, money must have four characteristics: It must be generally accepted, durable, easy to carry and easily divided. 3. M1 is what we call the money supply. It is all the coins, paper money and balances of checking accounts in all the...

10. Can You Measure Up!
...is all out of food except for this one item. b. Not to accept anything but the pennies for the item purchased in the store. 4. The groups will choose one person to represent them, he/she will go up to the desk to pick up the following: a. the name of their groups imaginary country b. Ziplock bag of bartering items c. a measuring device, a document d. five toothpicks 5. The groups are than told what each item represents and that the whole class will participate in four episodes of Can You Measure Up! 6. Each representative of their country is instructed to pick up bartering items and an envelope with the...