SARASOTA – Students at a Sarasota Elementary school are leaning how to tackle current events in a unique way.
Fruitville Elementary school teacher, Jeanette Schwaed decided to get creative while teaching free enterprise and let her 4TH Grade students take the lesson into their own hands…
“We set up a toy store, and the only requirement was to use some recyclable materials and I let them run with it and boy did they,” said 4th grade teacher at Fruitville Elementary, Jeanette Schwaed.
The students making the toys serve as the producers, while other students took the role of consumers
“Each student has a bag on their desk and the consumers who come to visit drop a token in the bag of the students who made the best sales pitch, and whose product they were the most interested in,” said Schwaed.
Mrs. Schwaed says the lesson helps teach the students about current events
“We have a bigger demand right now than we do supply, so today they saw firsthand supply and demand, and many of the students didn’t have enough supply, the demand was greater than their supply.”
While one student made alien spaceships..
“I made them out of cardboard, paper, plastic and wood,” said 4th grader at Fruitville Elementary, Mia Jessup.
Another student made tic tac toe boards.
“I got boards and I painted them green or other different colors, and I did white stripes over them,” said 4th grader at Fruitville Elementary, Katelyn Walsh.
“I try to teach my students, to look at normal objects and think of what can it become, what can it be, and that’s the same thing that I teach them, what can you become, what can you be, the sky is the limit,” said Schwaed.