Teaching Second-Grade Economics!

My group and I taught three lessons to the second-grade students at Bishop Dunn. We taught a direct-instruction lesson, an inquiry lesson, and a cooperative learning lesson. In the direct instruction lesson, my group and I taught the class about many economic terms and concepts. Some of these terms include supply, demand, scarcity, human resources, capital resources, natural resources, and many others. We showed the students a word wall of the words at the beginning of the lesson, and many students did not know any of the terms. This changed by the end of the lesson, as when my group showed the students the same word wall, most students knew all of the words by the end of the lesson! This lesson had all of the parts of direct instruction, including check for understandings, guided practice activities, independent practice and other aspects as well. Here is the link to my direct instruction lesson plan, and here's the link to my Google Slideshow to go along with it!
For the inquiry lesson, my group and I gave the students a problem to solve. We told them that a first-grader at their school was having problems figuring out economics, and he wrote them a letter to share this problem! We read the letter to the students, and then told them that it was their job to help the first-grader! The objective for this lesson was "Given research articles and activities about economics, the students will explain the concepts of supply and demand, scarcity and productive resources following the criteria of a rubric". We unfortunately did not get to finish our lesson today, and we saved our independent practice from this lesson for the upcoming cooperative lesson. However, everything else in the lesson went according to plan. The students went to three different stations, and got to experience an auction, a mystery bag station, and solved riddles to learn more information about the concepts and vocabulary taught to them previously. This inquiry lesson followed the five e's of inquiry lesson format. Here is the link to my lesson plan, and here's the link to my Google Slideshow for this lesson. Check them out!
The last lesson we taught to the second-graders was a cooperative learning lesson. I had never taught one of these lessons before, but I'm glad I was given the opportunity to do so here, because I like the format of this type of lesson. In the cooperative learning lesson, the students work together to create projects to show their learning. The projects we had for the students were writing a rap, making a poster, creating an advertisement, or performing in a skit. The students split into groups, created these projects and then presented them all. The lesson went really well, and after it the students were able to successfully write a letter to their first-grade peer. Here is the link to my cooperative lesson plan, and here is the link to my Google Slideshow. Overall, I had an awesome experience teaching these students. I learned how to make three different types of lessons and use them in a real life setting. This will be very valuable for me in my future.