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Lesson Plans

Communities at Work

Component: Getting & Earning Money | Grade Level: Grade 4-6

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:

  • Ways by which people can get money
  • Why people get different amounts of money from different kinds of work
  • Things that affect how much money a person can make
  • How people with more money can help those with less

BE ABLE TO:

  • Develop skills and a good work ethic that helps them to earn income
  • Identify and consider a wide variety of occupations that provide an opportunity to earn money

ACTION/BEHAVIOUR:

  • Consider how their effort and quality of work can affect their ability to earn money
  • Consider situations and make judgments with an understanding that people and households have different amounts of money available for many different reasons
  • Appreciate things in life that do not require money
  • Consider opportunities there may be to assist others
  • Value all forms of work

Teaching Unit:

Communities at Work

It is important that children start to identify and consider a wide variety of occupations that provide an opportunity to earn money. Students need to develop good work ethics now in order to be successful at school. When they are older, it will affect their ability to earn money.

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