Weekly Focus and Home Learning Assignments
Focus
Describe how animals and plants respond to changing
seasons and adapt to their environment
Vocabulary
1. Adaptation: Any characteristic that helps a plant or animal survive
2. Stimuli: Anything that prompts a response or action
3. Season: One of the four natural divisions of the year: spring, summer, fall, and winter
4. Hibernation: when an animal goes into a deep sleep for a long period of time
5. Migration: The long distance movement of animals from one place to another
6. Plant: a living thing that gets its energy from the sun and it's unable to move from place to place on its own
7. Animal: A living thing that moves from place to place and gets energy from food
Weekly Focus and Home Learning Assignments
Focus (Previous Unit)
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Needs and Wants
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Goods and Services
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Producers and Consumers
Vocabulary
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Economics: the study of how people use money, goods, and services
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Need: something you must have in order to lead a safe, healthy life.
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Want: something you spend money on and enjoy but do not need it to live
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Good: something you buy and can keep, eat, or use.
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Service: work that someone does for someone else.
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Producer: someone who makes and sells a product or service;
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Consumer: someone who buys products and services;
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Entrepreneur: someone who starts and runs a business;
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Natural Resource: materials that are found naturally on Earth;
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Capital Resource: a tool machine or building that business uses;
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Human Resource: the workers who produce goods and services
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Supply: the amount of goods and services available
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Demand: the number of people who want to buy a good or service
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Scarcity: when an item is difficult to find or get
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Import: a product brought in from other countries
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Export: a product sent to other countries
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Barter: to trade without using money
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Income: money earned
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Budget: a plan for spending and saving money
