The Big Idea Activity

How do people in a community meet their needs?

Class Job Fair

  California Standard 3.5 Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.

Teaching Tips

Students may wish to perform more research about the health care industry, or they may wish to research other industries that are growing in their community.

Additional Links

These links provide more information about industries in California.

California's Film Industry

California and International Trade


César Chávez

  California Standard 3.5.1 Describe the ways in which local producers have used and are using natural resources, human resources, and capital resources to produce goods and services in the past and the present.

Cesar Chavez

Teaching Tips

Remind students that Chávez worked with Dolores Huerta to found what is now known as the United Farm Workers.

Additional Links

These links provide information about César Chávez and the United Farm Workers, including the bill that enacted César Chávez Day.

Bill to enact César Chávez Day

The César Chávez Foundation

Facts on Dolores Huerta

The Heroism Project and Dolores Huerta


A Farm Child in 1910

  California Standard 3.5.1 Describe the ways in which local producers have used and are using natural resources, human resources, and capital resources to produce goods and services in the past and the present.

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Family Farmers