Success! That wraps up our Goods & Services PBL unit in one word. We covered a lot throughout the unit: goods, services, resources, consumers, money, supply & demand and so many other topics that came up along the way. The students used resources donated by our classmates' wonderful parents to create their own good or service they wanted to sell to the students and faculty of OES. We learned about persuasion before creating advertisements to promote their product. Then, on March 31, we held our first OES 2nd grade Market. The 2nd graders sold a variety of goods such as paper airplanes, duct tape jewelry, loom bracelets, bookmarks, artwork, and so much more! There were also services to choose from such as sharpening teachers' pencils, painting students' nails, and one from our class for washing windows. Overall, our students earned $613.05 to go toward the purchase of our gym's rock climbing wall. They loved it and I felt they learned so much from it. They were using persuasion to try to get consumers coming up to them to purchase their good/service. One group, knowing they needed to sell their high supply before time ran out, started running a buy one get one free promotion. :) They even impressed me by quickly figuring out how much change to give back to one of their customers. I could go on and on, but let me just say I am so very proud of them and what they learned and accomplished. I can't wait until next year's market!
