Mr. Bear’s Chair
Mrs. Bear’s chair breaks. Mr. Bear packs up his capital resources (his tools) and goes into the woods to make a new chair. He painstakingly constructs a replacement in this detailed, step-by-step carpentry study
Economic Concepts
- Producer
- Specialists
- Division of Labor
Grade Levels
- Primary (K-3)
Description of Lesson 16, Mr. Bear’s Chair
from Economics and Children’s Literature:
Students work in groups to construct chairs from index cards. They experience a scarcity of tools, and find that they can produce more using specialization