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Econ Ed Link: Community Helpers at Your Service Lesson PlanEcon Ed Link: Community Helpers at Your Service Lesson Plan
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Council for Economic Education
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K - 1st
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Econ Ed Link: Community Helpers at Your Service

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Show elementary young scholars the correlation between goods and services and consumers. "You will draw a picture of a community helper, and perhaps write some sentences about him or her, to show or tell how that helper provides a Service."

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consumer goods, consumers, goods and services

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consumer choices, econedlink, goods, primary economics, services, council for economic education, consumer, goods, services, and consumers

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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