Reflection day 2

REFLECTION DAY 2:

       For our second day of teaching, my group decided to do an inquiry lesson on consumers and producers being able to trade with other countries. To introduce our lesson, we got to students brainstorming and thinking about previous knowledge about producers and consumers from the previous lesson that we did with them. We discussed with the students that we are all consumers and in order to buy and recieve the products and necessities we need in order to survive, we need to rely on other countries to grow and produce certain foods, clothing, and products (providing a service) as well as our country need to produce products for other countries as well. In order for students to understand what products come from other countries and how the products get from one country to another we used a powerpoint with a lot of pictures to show the students how it works. We used the different continents of, Europe (makes jewelery), South America (cocoa beans), Asia (toys), Australia (coal), and North America (grains). Each student was then given a map with the different continents and were told to open their envelopes with the pictures of different products in it and place the product on the correct country where it comes from. If the students got stuck, they were told to look at the board and identify the picture with the corresponding continent. (Place icons where certain products are made on the map) After the students were done with the map activity, we talked with the students about different methods of transportation that can be used to get the products from one continent to another in order for everyone to be happy and get the things that they need to survive.  we wrapped up our lesson by talking about the results of our map activity and how producers and consumers tied into the activity. I believe that this lesson worked out really well because it was a well thought out inquiry lesson that  implied involvement that leads to understanding. The students made the connection with the pictures and the map in order to understand trading, producers, and consumers.