Vocabulary Lesson
Money & Bartering
Grades: 2-3
Time: 10 minutes
Overview
Learn about push and pull by performing different actions.
Materials
Goals
Objectives
Next Generation Science Standards
Materials
Computer or other device with internet + speakers.
Goals
- Understand that bartering helped Native Hawaiians acquire resources needed for survival; and
- Learn different monetary units; and
- Compare how people bartered goods and services in ancient Hawaiʻi with how we use money to buy goods and services today.
Objectives
- Categorize resources as goods or services;
- Identify resources and their uses found in different Hawaiian environments; and
- Recognize coins and their values (quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies).
Next Generation Science Standards
2-PS1-2
Every human-made product is designed by applying some knowledge of the natural world and is built by using natural materials.
3-5-ETS1-1
People’s needs and wants change over time, as do their demands for new and improved technologies.
STory
Listen and follow along as each child in this story tells you about their lives in different parts of the ahupua‘a and how their families worked together to share resources.
