Goods and Services:

Goods includes things that are used or consumed,

for example clothing and food. 

Here are examples of goods:

Soft Drinks

Pets

Food

New Car

House

Can you think of any more?

Raise your hand and tell your teacher other goods you know.

The Story of Milk

See how milk goes from the cow to you!

Services are work done for others, such as a teacher or a fire fighter.

Look at these people providing services:

Teaching

House Cleaning

Repair

Radio Announcer

Postal Service

Raise your hand and tell your teacher other services you know.

Sometimes people provide services that result in a good being created.

Like this…

Restaurant

A chef at a restaurant provides the service of cooking a meal that you may eat.

Match these goods and services

Another good/service matching game

Play another goods/services game here!

Match goods/services

1. Think about what kind of job you would like to have when you are older.

2. Go to http://www.google.com

3. Type in the name of the job you want.

4. Research your job.

5. Create a page to print out by using this page…click here

6. Write about your job and answer these questions:

-Is your job a mainly a service or does it provide a good?

-What process (steps) do you or your good have to go through to get to other people who may want it?

-Include a picture (copy and paste) from the web or after printing, include a picture on your page.

See Ms. Welch’s example here.

Make your own page by clicking here.

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