Five pages about who makes things and who buys them, and what it costs to make something. Page 1 starts with a reminder (a producer makes goods or gives a service; a consumer buys or uses them) and has eight people to sort: students circle producer or consumer for each. The baker is done as an example. Page 2 shows that one person can be both: a baker, a farmer and a hair stylist each do two things, and a story follows lemons from a farm to a cup of lemonade. Page 3 adds the cost of the parts, like lemons, sugar and cups, to find the cost to make five things, in whole dollars or in cents. Page 4 fills in tables for 1 to 4 batches by skip counting, with two story problems. Page 5 compares the cost to make four things with what they sell for to find the money left over, then has four short stories, one about a seller who gets back less than she spent.
Before page 1, ask the class who made their lunch, their shoes and their pencils, and who bought them. Write Producer and Consumer on the board and sort a few jobs together, including services like a bus driver or a dentist. Before page 3, set out play items with price tags for the parts of a snack and add them up as a class. A pretend lemonade stand works well with page 5: one group makes and sells, the other buys.
At the store, point out the producers behind a few things in the cart, like the farmer who grew the apples or the baker who made the bread. When you cook together, add up what the parts cost and talk about whether it costs less to make it at home or to buy it ready made.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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A 5-page producers and consumers pack for 2nd grade. Read about eight people and circle whether each one is a producer, who makes goods or gives a service, or a consumer, who buys or uses them. See that one person can be both: a baker buys flour and sells bread, and Ava buys lemons, then sells lemonade. Add the cost of the parts to find the cost to make lemonade, a bracelet, a birdhouse, cookies and a sandwich, then skip count to find the cost of 2, 3 and 4 batches. Last, compare what each thing costs to make with what it sells for and find the money left over. Every page comes in color and in black and white. Answer keys included.
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