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LESSON: ISAAC The Ice Cream Truck
Lesson Summary
Isaac the Ice Cream Truck doesn't feel as important as all the other trucks that provide goods and services for the community. But one day, he provides cooling ice cream for the hot and tired firemen who have put out a fire in the building.
Concept: Specialization
Definition: People specialize when they produce only some of the goods and services they consume, then trade with others to get more of the things they want.
Comprehension Questions
What is Isaac's job?
Delivering ice cream to people of the city.
List all the other community workers in the story.
Answers may vary: construction workers, truck drivers, movers, highway workers, street cleaners, garbage collectors, firemen.
Identify each worker's area of specialization. Do they provide goods or services?
Answers may vary:
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Community Workers
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Specialization
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Goods or Services
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construction workers
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build houses
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both goods and services
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truck drivers
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deliver cars
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service
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moving van drivers
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help move people's things
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service
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highway workers
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build roads
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good
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produce deliverymen
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deliver fruits and vegetables from a farm
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both goods and services
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street cleaners
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help keep the streets clean
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service
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garbage collectors
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pick up garbage
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service
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firefighters
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put out fires
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service
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Explain the importance of having so many different types of "trucks" in a community.
Each truck provided a specialized service. The result was
interdependence in the community.
Isaac wished he could be a more important truck, but in the end he was happy. Describe how even selling ice cream was very important.
Isaac provided goods to the firemen when they were hot and tired from putting out fires.
Other Concepts: Capital Resources, Economic Wants, Goods and Services
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