•SS.3.E.1.3 - Recognize that buyers and sellers interact to exchange goods and services through the use of trade or money.

•Vocabulary:

•Buyers

•Sellers

•Scarcity

•Trade

•Economics

•Goods

•Currency

•Task: Pick one new vocabulary word from our Social Studies unit. Complete the vocab word model, including the new word, the definition, a drawing, synonyms, and a contextual sentence.

Vocab Word Models integrate two cross-curricular standards. Assessment is about creating meaningful application of standards/targets. I felt that by using a vocab word model, students are exposed to different ways a word can be used and illustrated. It also allows for them to depict what they interpret when hearing and reading the word through a illustration. 
•Involve some collaboration with others

•Are enabling—prompting the student for important use of skills and knowledge

•Are engaging and educational

•Allow room for student styles and interests

•Can be attempted by all students, even with scaffolding/accommodations as needed

•Have apparent value to the students being assessed