Goods and Services - Who Provides What We Need and Use
From Miacademy Learning Channel · 2025
4 min1st2nd3rdSocial Studies
Summary
This lesson sorts the things we use into goods (objects like food, toys, and clothes) and services (helpful jobs people do, like teaching or cutting hair). Kids meet the workers, called producers, who make goods and provide services in a community.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Use these after watching to talk through the social studies idea in the video.
- Is a haircut a good or a service? What about an apple?
- Name a worker in your community. Do they provide a good or a service?
- What is a skill someone needs to do that job well?
Quick work-a-long
Words to know: goods, services, producer, consumer, skill.
Try it: Name one worker in your community. Write whether they provide a good or a service, and one skill they need to do it.