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Grade 1 Social Studies · World 9: Market Street · Level 53
Producers and Consumers
Everyone is both.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 53
- A producer makes goods or gives services. A farmer who grows corn is a producer. So is a barber who cuts hair.
- A consumer buys or uses goods and services. When you buy an apple or get a haircut, you are a consumer.
- Everyone is a consumer! We all use goods and services, like food, clothes, and rides on the bus.
- Everyone can be a producer too. A baker produces bread. Then the baker buys flour, and is a consumer!
- Kids can be producers, too, when they sell lemonade, or walk a neighbor's dog for pay.
- Your turn! Sort them. Is a person doing each one a producer, or a consumer?
- Try it with a grown-up! Name a time today when you were a consumer. Then name a way you could be a producer.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:
- SS1E3 — Describe how people are both producers and consumers.