If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
This book is about a mouse who has many wants that lead to other wants.
Economic Concepts
- Economic Wants
- Choices
Grade Levels
- Primary (K-3)
- Intermediate (4-6)
Teacher Tips for Using this Book
This curriculum guide contains a lesson for If You Give a Mouse a Cookie where students create a class “big book” and design a model classroom as they learn that people, like the mouse, have many wants.
Hopkins, M. C., Wright, D. K., & Wood, W. C. (1998). Economics and Children’s Literature (Special Third Supplement: Storybooks for Primary Grades). Coulson, E. C., Suiter, M. C., & McCorkle, S. (Eds.). SPEC Publishers, Inc. St. Louis, Missouri.
A lesson in this curriculum guide leads students to discuss the mouse’s unlimited wants and explore the unlimited wants of others.
Flowers, B., Meszaros, B., & Suiter, M. C. (1998). Economics and
Children’s Literature (Supplement 2). Coulson E. C. & McCorkle S.
(Eds.). SPEC Publishers, Inc. St. Louis, Missouri.
Online lesson where students read the book and discuss the economics concepts through a set of questions and answers: http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/mouse.htm