Name: Jennifer Edenfield
Title of Unit: Down on the Farm
Grade Level: Second
Subject: Social Studies
Topic: Economics
Performance Task - GRASPS
Goal - to produce a program that is a shopper's
guide to the County Fair, complete with articles about your farm team and
events leading up to Market Day, one feature article about an animal or crop
that is special, an advertisement from a local store, pictures and captions,
headlines, attractive format, completely revised and edited. Students
will publish and circulate these programs.
Role- You are a news
reporter, journalist, and photographer. You will gather information based
on your farm experience, write articles, take pictures or find appropriate clip
art, and compile these elements into an attractive program to drive traffic to
your booth at the County Fair.
Audience- parents, friends, siblings, and other
faculty will be given a program. Based on their interests, and the
information they find in their program, they have $10 to spend. You want
shoppers to spend their money and buy what your team is selling.
Situation- the annual County Fair is in town and it’s
time to sell your animals and crops to make a profit. You have worked
very hard with your farm team to raise healthy animals and crops that are
marketable. Shoppers at the county fair are people who want to buy your
goods in order to make products and sell them to the public. What will
you sell your animals for? What are your crops
worth? You are trying to attract the most people to spend the most money
at your booth.
Product/Performance- Based on your sales from Market Day, you
will find the difference between your sales and your previous balance on your
farm ledger. The difference is your profit. The biggest profit wins
Market Day. A follow-up article will be written as a team to submit to
the local paper (a class wiki page) that will summarize the day's events.
Standard/Criteria
for Success- see rubric
Social Studies Rubric
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Teamwork: worked well, everyone on task, helping,
supporting, problem-solving |
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Writing: one feature article; headlines; captions |
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Format: creative; eye-catching; use of color, clip
art, etc. |
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Publishing: on-time;
distribution |
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Market Day: in-character; handling money; creating a
well-organized booth |
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Ledgers: accurate;
money accounted for; find profit |
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Newspaper article:
team effort, submitted and uploaded to the wiki |
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