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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students categorize grocery store products into different "regions" of the classroom, which they pretend is a grocery store. They discuss the concept of regions and the unique qualities of their home region. Full Review »
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- 4th - 7th
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Students determine grocery costs. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students write a menu, obtain needed recipes, make a grocery list, select coupons, and calculate the cost of each item minus the amount of the coupon. They calculate the cost of the entire meal. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students explore the global implications of consumer decisions when purchasing groceries. They examine labels of food products and discuss the wording on the labels. They calculate food miles of how far each ingredient in foods has traveled. They identify the locations of the ingredients on maps. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students purchase grocery items from the classroom grocery store using appropriate play coins and bills. Students define various economic terms. Students comprehend the concept of a medium for exchange. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students watch a video on how marketers plan their strategies in supermarkets. In groups, they are given a set amount of money and asked to go through a grocery store simulation with a list. After the simulation, they discuss the importance of budgets and how to identify gimmicks. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students role-play various activities associated with grocery shopping. Using food, bags, aprons, and play money as props, they act out the roles of grocery clerk and shoppers, and pay for food using play money. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students are given a period of two weeks to make a trip to the grocery store. After collecting data from the store, students enter their prices into a classroom computer after their daily math lessons. They create a spreadsheet with their data collected. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students participate in the development of a mock grocery store in their classroom to investigate the importance of regions. They then visit the internet site provided to compare the regions of the classroom/grocery store to regions around the country. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students examine profit margin on grocery products and management of inventory in grocery stores, explain or demonstrate mechanical principle of how bar code reader uses light to change information on paper to information computer can read, use codes to represent information, and be able to read bar codes and calculate the check digit. Full Review »

