Who Gets It? Prices, Contests, and Lotteries

Price, contests, lottery, and first-come-first-served.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 53

Because of scarcity, there isn't always enough for everyone. So how do we decide who gets something? There are many ways!
Price: whoever pays for it gets it. A lemonade stand sells cups for 50 cents. Whoever pays gets a cup.
Contest: the winner of a race or game gets it. The fastest runner in the race wins the medal.
Lottery: it's picked by chance, like drawing names from a hat. The teacher draws a name from a hat to see who feeds the fish.
First-come, first-served: the first ones to get there get it. The first 20 people in line get a free T-shirt.

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:

SS2E2 — Identify some ways in which goods and services are allocated (such as: price, majority rule, contests, force, sharing, lottery, authority, first-come-first-served, and personal characteristics).