Making decisions can be very difficult. Show your class one way to evaluate choices with this lesson, which is inspired by the book Glo Goes Shopping. Learners practicing using a decision-making grid with the content of the story and a second scenario.

Concepts

making decisions, opportunity cost, spending habits, spending money, counting, shopping

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use this during a unit based around money and spending
• Invite pupils to analyze real decision-making situations in their own lives; they can fill out a new grid for homework

Classroom Considerations

• In the materials, you'll find presentations for interactive whiteboards; these presentations are not essential to the lesson
• You'll need to borrow or buy a copy of Glo Goes Shopping by Cheryl Willis Hudson

Pros

• Includes all the handouts and worksheets you need
• Cross-curricular lesson combines language arts with economics and math concepts
• Answers to the discussion questions are included alongside the questions

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.1.1 RL.1.2 RL.1.3 RL.2.1 RL.2.3 RL.3.1 RL.3.3 SL.1.2 SL.2.2