Grade 1 Lesson at a Glance: Unit 3, Lesson 4

Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
I Know a Place

Lesson at a Glance
Unit 3, Lesson 4: Inside the Factory (pp. 100-103)

The Big Idea
Framework Concept: Goods/Services People use assembly-line processes in a factory.

Use a toy or other factory-made object that has removable parts to demonstrate and discuss the assembly-line process used in many factories. You can even use a classroom object, such as a stapler, for demonstration. Invite students to name the different parts of the object and in what order they were probably put together. Discuss why making things in factories is a fast and efficient way to produce things.

Check for Understanding

Have students write and draw about something else that might be made in a factory, such as a shirt. Use the shirt as an example to demonstrate how they might show several steps: cutting the fabric from a pattern, sewing the pieces together, wrapping it for shipment.
Have students make a sequence book that shows the order of making a simple object that was probably factory-produced.

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