Market!+Reinforcing+Activity

**Fifth Grade** //__**Materials:**__// -The book: //__Market!__// -Students will need different materials depending on their topics -tri fold boards -poster board -food ingredients -books and computers for research
 * //Market!: Reinforcing Activity// **

In this activity you will need to read the story //__Market!__//. After you read students the story you will introduce the activity.
 * __//Overview//__**


 * __//Before Reading//__**
 * Ask the students what they know about making trades.
 * Ask them for examples of trades they have made before.
 * Maybe they have done lunchroom food trades or traded toys with a sibling.
 * What constituted a fair trade?
 * Have they ever done a trade they regretted or ended up on the bad side of a trade?
 * What makes a good trade?


 * //__After Reading__//**


 * Divide the class into six teams, or market economies
 * Instruct students to pick an area on earth that has a specific item they produce and then trade with other markets around the world (no team can have the same country)
 * Teams research what these countries...
 * specialize in producing
 * who they trade with
 * how much they sell their items for
 * how do they decide what they are going to trade their items for
 * what is globalization?
 * Each group will present their information to the class
 * Sharing what they found to be important and their specialized item for trade with the class.
 * In presentations the students will...
 * design their countries flag on a poster board
 * have a tri-fold board of information about their specific country on displace
 * have found a food item that is special to their country and make it to trade with the class
 * They will then set up booths around the room, having 3 students stay at their booth, while the other 3 go around the room looking for items they would like to trade with the others. It will cause the students to have to figure out which items are worth more then others and what constitutes a good trade, as they may need something that another team has, as they do not have it to share with their country. Halfway through have the students at the booth and the students walking around switch so everyone has a chance to see everyone else's booth.


 * __//After Presentation//__**
 * Student should write a response descibing the trading system
 * Talking about each different market...
 * what they had to trade
 * how each country specialized in a certain product
 * no country had the same, so it was necessary for trade to occur
 * Ask how this affected their country and if they felt they had a good variety once the trading was over
 * Ask students to talk about their trading experience and how the people in these countries have to work hard to specialize and make their item worth trading with other countries.

//At the end of this lesson, the students will have knowledge about different countries and how markets are important to globalization and how different markets support each other.//