2. Businesses in Our Community Consumerism Level 200-250 REEP Created by: Elena Collins ecollins@arlington.k12.va.us August 2002

3. Notes to Teachers REEP Learning Objective(s): –Identify stores and services provided. –Identify needs as a consumer. Working with groups: –students may work as a whole class or in groups. How long will this lesson take: –3 hours. Assessment: –This lesson is designed for hands-on learning and does not include a formal assessment.

4. What are businesses? The retail stores, manufacturing companies, or services that supply us with our needs and wants.

5. There are many businesses in our community. For example: restaurants banks shops What other types of businesses can you name? ______________

6. Three types of businesses: There are 3 main types of business: Service Manufacturing Retail Each type of business is important to our community.

7. Businesses in Our Community

8. Retail Vocabulary Listen for these words in the video. Make sure you can define these words. downtown products goods customer service people employer employee Click on the arrow to go to the next page.

9. Retail Click on the picture to watch the video.

10. Text of Retail video One sort of business we are all familiar with are retail stores. Retail stores sell goods. This one sells mostly kites and toys. In small towns retail stores are found in the downtown areas, but today many retail stores or businesses are also found in shopping malls. This is a bicycle store. The products it sells are bicycles. The people who work in the business are called employees. Some of the employees are sales people. They help the customer, the person who buys the goods, decide which bike to buy. In this bicycle shop there are also service people who fix bicycles. This is another type of employee. This person is the owner of the bicycle shop, he is called an employer. This retail store sells one kind of product–bicycles. But some retail stores sell many kinds of products. A grocery store sells many kinds of foods, but it also sells other things like vitamins, school supplies, books, and cooking utensils. A video store is a retail business that deals with another kind of product, it sells and rents videos….

11. Retail Review Why are these businesses called retail? They SELL goods. Where can you find retail stores in small towns? downtown Where can you find retails stores in cities? (shopping) mall Where do people buy goods in Europe? open air markets Which retail businesses did the video talk about? grocery store bicycle store video store

12. Manufacturing Vocabulary Listen for these words in the video. Make sure you can define these words. grain (n) resources (n) wheat (n) ranch (n) drill (v, n) harvest (n) product (n) Click on the arrow to go to the next page.

13. Manufacturing Click on the picture to watch the video.

14. Text of Manufacturing Video Here is another retail food store, it sells bakery goods. It, too, has sales people as employees. However, it also makes the goods it’s selling. This is called manufacturing. So this business has employees who manufacture the bread. But where does the grain come from to make the bread? In order to answer this question, we travel out of the city and into the country. The grain comes from the farmers who grow it. Farming is another kind of business. It is a business that deals with basic resources, such as the land the wheat is grown on. Many farms and ranches are family owned. The family does most of the work. In a way, the family members are both employer and employee.

15. Manufacturing text continued... Once the goods, in this case, the grain, are harvested, they are brought to a grain elevator where they are sold. This is a business that buys and sells grain. It might sell the grain to a bakery to make bread. Another business that deals with natural resources is the oil business. The workers here are drilling a well for oil. Oil is turned into gasoline, which powers our cars, but oil is also turned into plastics which are used in manufacturing many products, such as these wheels for roller blades.… ….Here is a very different kind of manufacturing company called Celestial Seasonings. It makes teas. The raw materials for teas are plants, which are harvested all over the world. The plants then have to be processed and packaged... and they are eventually sold in retail stores.

16. Manufacturing Review Why are these businesses called manufacturing? They MAKE the goods they sell. What kind of manufacturing businesses did the video talk about? bakery farm ranch oil factory

17. Services Vocabulary Listen for these words in the video. Make sure you can define these words. repair (v, adj) veterinarian (n) boss (n) provide (v) Click on the arrow to go to the next page.

18. Services Click on the picture to watch the video.

19. Text of services video The kind of businesses we will look at next are called services. They are called services because they do something for somebody rather than make something. For instance, this man fixes shoes. This business is called a shoe repair service. A bank is another business that is a service. It keeps your money safely stored away. The bank may give your parents a loan to buy a home or car. Services are just like other businesses in that they have employees and employers. Here is the bank’s president. Restaurants provide another type of service we all use. Eating out is fun, and easier when you’re in a hurry. Let’s take a look at one other service business. This man is a veterinarian. He takes care of sick animals. Much like the farmer, he does the work and he is his own boss.

20. Services Review Why are these businesses called services? They DO something for someone, rather than MAKE something. Which services did the video talk about? shoe repair bank restaurant veterinarian

21. Businesses in Our Community - Scavenger Hunt Directions: Work in groups. You have 1/2 hour for this activity. Walk around your school and notice the businesses in the neighborhood. What businesses do you see? What do they make, sell, or do? Print out and complete the worksheet on the next page. You only have 1/2 hour! GO!

22. Scavenger Hunt Grid

23. Discussion Questions What businesses did you find in our area? Which type of businesses do we have the most of? Where do you think we get the products and/or services that we don’t have here? What conclusions can you make about our local economy?

24. Resources All videos courtesy of: www.arlington.untedstreaming.com Manufacturing image: www.infy.com/images/pictures_v2/ manufacturing.jpg Retail image: cns.stanford.edu/campuscard/ images/Retail.jpg Service image: www.stanleysteemer.com/.../phone_operator.jpg