Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template

Grade Level/Subject: Social Studies/3rd

Central Focus: Supply and demand

Essential Standard/Common Core Objective: 3.E.1.1

Explain how location impacts supply and demand.

Date submitted:
3/19/2015

Date taught:

Daily Lesson Objective: Students will be able to identify supply and demand. They will be able to explain how consumers
have an effect on the supply and demand of products.
21st Century Skills: Creativity, Critical
Thinking, Communication and
Collaboration

Academic Language Demand (Language Function and Vocabulary):

Supply, demand, consumer, producer

Prior Knowledge: Students know that a consumer is someone who buys products or pays for services. They know that
producers sell these products and services.
Activity

Description of Activities and Setting

Time

Ask:

1. Focus and Review

2. Statement of Objective
for Student

3. Teacher Input

4. Guided Practice

What is a consumer? (They are people who buy products. They

demand goods and services.)
Do you think needs or wants are bought quicker?
What is a producer?
Tell the students that today they will be listening to a story that teaches about
supply and demand. Everything they buy is effected by supply and demand.
Show the class the book Lemons and Lemonade: A Book About Supply and
Demand to the students. Ask students questions about the story while reading.
Some questions to ask:
What do you do when youre bored or hot in the summer?
What are the people who buy the lemonade called?
Can we use context clues to figure out what market means?
When Karly has competition, what do you think she could do to get
people to buy more of her lemonade?
While reading, point out the text boxes used in the story that give definitions.
After reading, point out the glossary, charts, and index.
Ask, What it is called when a lot of people wanted to buy lemonade from
Karly? Explain that demand is the amount of people that are willing to buy a
product at a certain time.
Ask What did Karly do when there was a high demand for her lemonade?
Explain that when there is a high demand for a product, producers raise prices
because people buy it more. If there isnt a high demand, prices are lowered.
Say, Josh and Shaun started a lemonade stand and people didnt buy Karlys
anymore. There was more supply. What happened then? Explain that when
there is a large supply of something, prices are lowered.
At first there was a small supply and high demand because so many people
wanted the lemonade. Karly was able to raise her prices. When she had
competition, she had to lower her prices. This made people want to buy hers.
People buy more when prices are lower. She also made it better by selling
fruit snacks with them.
In groups, students will decide on a product or service they could sell that
might be in high demand in the community. They will draw a picture of this to
share with the class. They should also decide what they would do if the

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demand was lower (i.e. lower prices, add something to it, etc.).
When they share their ideas, ask other groups if they have any suggestions.
Show the students the supply and demand problem:

5. Independent Practice

A lot of people want an Xbox 360 but only a small number were made in the
first year it came out.
The supply is __________________. The demand is _______________.
The price can be
.

5 minutes

6. Assessment Methods of
all objectives/skills:

Students write what the supply, demand, and price is on their own paper.
Formative: ask questions throughout the lesson.
Summative: collect each groups drawings and each students paper at the end to check.

7. Closure

Ask if anyone can explain how supply and demand. Also ask how it effects
prices of products. Ask how consumers effect supply and demand.

8. Assessment Results of
all objectives/skills:

Students will show examples in their group work and they will write what each one is in the
problem at the end. This will show their understanding.

2 minutes

Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations:

Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations:

Students will be in groups working together so

they can each use their strengths.

Students will be able to draw the product or service they

come up with. If a group finishes early, they can write an
explanation for their drawing.

Materials/Technology:
(Include any instructional materials (e.g., worksheets, assessments PowerPoint/SmartBoard slides, etc.) needed to implement the lesson at the end of the lesson plan.)

Lemons and Lemonade: A Book About Supply and Demand by Nancy Loewen
Computer to show the problem to the students

References:
Reflection on lesson: