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The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza Lesson PlanThe Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza Lesson Plan
Publisher
Federal Reserve Bank
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Grade
1st - 3rd
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
45 mins
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Direct Instruction
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Presentation
Year
2012
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The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza

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Make a study of producers and consumers with an updated version of the classic story The Little Red Hen (this one is called The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza). After reading and discussing the story and terms, learners practice being producers and consumers and complete an assessment.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

producers, consumers, the little red hen, making predictions

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Use this lesson during a unit based around economic terms or as an introduction to bartering and money
  • Have kids produce and consume additional items for further practice

Classroom Considerations

  • You will need to buy or borrow a copy of The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza by Philemon Sturges
  • Note that this resource does come with a presentation, but it is for an interactive whiteboard; if you don't have one, it's not essential to the plan

Pros

  • Comes with all the materials you need: printables, the assessment and answer key, discussion questions, etc.
  • Answers to the discussion questions are written alongside the questions in the plan
  • Cross-curricular plan combines language arts and economics

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.1.1 RL.1.2 RL.1.3 RL.1.4 RL.2.1 RL.2.2 RL.2.3 RL.2.5 RL.2.9 RL.3.1 RL.3.2 RL.3.3

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