Wal-Mart+Project

purchase price, production price, profit, difference, geographical location, plot, persepctive This activity will present to students how Wal-Mart profits from outsourcing. Station A will be done in a whole-class fashion. I will present 5-6 different objects bought from Wal-Mart to the class. I will engage the students by showing them some things I bought from Wal-Mart. I will use products that they are familiar with and most of them find interest in. I will tell them where they were made. Students will pick 2-3 objects to focus on. With a large map provided to each student, they will plot our location and the production location. From there, I will have two B stations set up and two C stations set up to accommodate for large class size. At station B, the students will use provided resources, such as computers, to research how much the item cost to make in the location it was made and how much it would have cost to make it in the United States. Then, with the provided production and purchase prices, the students will figure how much money Wal-Mart profited from outsourcing. At station C, the students will write why the product was made there. They will need to use higher level thinking skills to figure why Wal-Mart chose to have a product made in the specific location it was made.
 * Author: **Allison Lewis
 * Lesson Topic/Title: **Where was that made?
 * Subject Areas: **Social Studies, Math, and Language Arts
 * Grade Level: **5th grade
 * Time: **During class time
 * PA Standards: **
 * **7.1.5.B: ** Describe and locate places and regions as defined by physical and human features.
 * **7.3.5.A: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Identify the human characteristics of places and regions using the following criteria: population, culture, settlement, economic activities, and political activities.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">M5.A.1.3.1: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Compare whole numbers through 9 digits using the words more, less, equal, least, most, greater than, less than or the symbols <, >, =.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">NCSS Standards: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">People, Places and Environments
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Production, Distribution and Consumption
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Global Connections
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Essential Questions: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Where on the globe were these products from Wal-Mart made?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">How far away, in relation to us, were these products made?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">How much did it cost to make these products?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">How much did Wal-Mart profit on these products?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Learning Objectives: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The students will compare their location with production location of item.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The students will analyze the production price in comparison to purchase price.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The students will plot their location and production location of item.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The students will write their perspective on outsourcing with information gathered through rotations.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Concept/Vocabulary: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Materials: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Items purchase from Wal-Mart
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Printed out maps
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Computers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Markers/Crayons/Construction Paper/ETC.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Instruction Procedures: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> General: **

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Purpose: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> For students to learn how to compare places and distances on maps. __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Organization: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> As a whole class, we will talk about certain products and where they were made. The students will locate on a map where the products were made, and their current location. With the two places plotted on the map, the students will use the provided scale to see how far away in miles from them the item was made. __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Implementation: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> I will do this in a whole class fashion and introduce products that students can relate to and find interesting. Then, I will break the students up into 4 groups for the rest of the stations. __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Duration: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">15 minutes
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Learning station-A (SS): “Where was this made?” **

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Purpose: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> For students to compare what the production cost was in relation to purchase price in the United States. __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Organization: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">At this station, students will work on the computers to research how much it cost to make the item where it was made and determine if that price is higher, lower or equal to the purchase price. Then, using the researched price and the price provided to them from me the students will find the product using subtraction. __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Implementation: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> The directions will be provided at this station along with pictures of how to use a computer to do searches. __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Duration: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> 15 minutes
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Learning Station-B (Math): “How much did this cost to make it?” **

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Purpose: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> For students to reflect and process what they just found out and the significance of it. __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Organization: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> The students will write what they have found: the item title, purchase price, location it was made, and production price. Through comparison, done at the mathematics station, students will know how much Wal-Mart profited, if at all. The students will be prompted to write about what they would do if they were a corporation like Wal-Mart. They will think of pros and cons to outsourcing and write their personal perspective. __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Implementation: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> I will have a prompt written on paper for the students to read. They will have decorative paper and fun materials to work with if they so desire. __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Duration: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">15 minutes
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Learning Stations-C (Language Arts): "Why was this made there?" **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Assessment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">I will use informal assessment with this activity. The students’ maps and calculations will be collected to review. The calculations do not have to be exact, but the profit should reflect a decent amount of money collected by Wal-Mart. Whether students agree or disagree with outsourcing is irrelevant in their writing. I want to see that they have an understanding of the purpose of outsourcing and those Wal-Mart profits greatly through it.