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Potato

Potato. A Tale from the Great Depression Written by Kate Lied Illustrated by Lisa Campbell Ernst. Book Cover. What is the little girl holding? What do you think she is going to do with the potatoes? Where did the little girl get the potatoes in her basket?

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  1. Potato A Tale from the Great Depression Written by Kate Lied Illustrated by Lisa Campbell Ernst

  2. Book Cover What is the little girl holding? What do you think she is going to do with the potatoes? Where did the little girl get the potatoes in her basket? If the little girl had bought the potatoes, where would she have gotten the money to buy them?

  3. What will happen in the story based on the pictures? Wants are desires that can be satisfied by consuming goods and services. How do members of your family earn income? Can you think of ways that you might earn income? Can you think of times when you wanted money to satisfy a want?

  4. Consumers are people whose wants are satisfied by • using goods and services. • Goods are objects that can satisfy people’s wants. • Services are actions that can satisfy people’s wants. • 1. How do you know that you are a consumer? • What are some goods that you consumed today? • 3. What are some services that you used today?

  5. Who is this story about? What happened to Clarence? Who were the consumers in the story? What wants did Clarence, Agnes, and Dorothy have? What happened to the family when the bank took the house? What did Clarence do to solve the problem of not being able to find a job? How did the farmer help Clarence and Agnes? What did Clarence and Agnes do with the income they made during the day? What did Clarence and Agnes do with the leftover potatoes they picked up at night?

  6. Barteris trading goods and services without using money. Can you think of a time when you bartered to get something that you wanted? 2. Give examples of goods and services for which Clarence and Agnes traded potatoes.

  7. Trading Activity

  8. How many of you made a trade? How many trades did you make? Why were able to make a trade? Why did some of you trade more than one time? Why were some of you unable to make a trade? Was it easy or hard to make trades?

  9. How many of you made a trade in Round 2? How many trades did you make in Round 2? 3. Were more trades made in this round than in Round 1? Why?

  10. How many of you made a trade in Round 3? How many trades did you make? Why were able to make a trade? How many of you did not make a trade? Were more trades made in this round than in Round 1? 6. Why were some students unable to get something they wanted? 7. Do you think Clarence and Agnes had trouble bartering their potatoes?

  11. Why did the number of trades in each round differ? Why were not always able to get what you wanted when you were bartering? When Clarence traded with the pig farmer for a pig, how did each side benefit? Do members of your family barter to get the the things they want each day? How do you and members of your family get the things you want each day?

  12. Money is anything used as a final payment for goods and services. Could you use the items you have in your barter bags to buy lunch in the school cafeteria or a new toy at the toy store? What do you do in order to have lunch at school? What happened at the end of the potato story that helped Clarence and his family satisfy their wants?

  13. Review Questions Who are consumers? Who were the consumers in the potato story? What are wants? Name some wants that you have What were some wants that Clarence, Anges, and Dorothy had? What is barter? When do you use barter? What are goods? Name some goods that the family in the book used. Name some goods that you use. What are services? Name some services the family in the book used. Name some services you use. What helps to make it easier for us to buy goods and services?

  14. Hot Potato What do we call desires and wishes that can be satisfied by consuming goods and services? What was Agnes doing when she traded potatoes for groceries? What do we call people who satisfy their wants by using goods and services? What are you called when you satisfy your wants by using goods and services? What do we call objects, like a ball for Dorothy, that satisfy people’s wants? Name a good that you used today. What do we call actions that people do for us that satisfy our wants? Name a services that you used today. Instead of bartering, what do people use to get the goods and services they want? 10. What do we call the money Clarence earned for the work he did?

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