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Supply Chains

CONCEPTUAL
Life Skills›Entrepreneurship|Ages 9—11|ID: mt_tqgZH11cP5

Where products come from before they reach the customer; raw materials, making, transporting, and selling; the journey of a product from start to finish

Mastery Evidence

  • Trace the journey of a familiar product (e.g. chocolate bar) from raw material to shop shelf
  • Identify at least three stages in a supply chain
  • Explain why a long supply chain can make a product more expensive

Assessment Prompt

“If you asked [child] how a chocolate bar gets from a cocoa farm to a shop shelf, could they describe the main steps in the journey?”

Prerequisites3

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  • Global Trade soft

    Cross-domain: global trade (Money & Finance) provides context for supply chains

    • Fair Trade & Ethics soft

      Fair trade awareness extends naturally to understanding global trade

      • Needs & Wants soft

        Needs vs wants thinking extends to ethical consumer choices

        • What Money Is hard

          Must understand money exists and is limited before distinguishing needs from wants

      • Buying Things hard

        Must understand buying before considering where products come from and who made them

        • Coins & Notes hard

          Must recognise coins/notes and their values before practising buying transactions

          • Coin Values soft

            Curriculum coins/notes recognition (Maths Y1) underpins exploratory coin knowledge

            • Reading and writing numbers to 20 hard

              Recognising coin values requires reading numerals (1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50)

              • How Many in Total? hard

                Reading/writing numerals 0–20 requires understanding that numerals represent quantities (cardinality)

                • One-to-one counting hard

                  Cardinality principle builds on one-to-one correspondence — you must count correctly to know the last number tells 'how many'

              • Writing digits 0-9 hard

                Writing numerals requires the motor skill of forming digits 0-9 (taught in English handwriting)

          • What Money Is hard

            Must understand what money is before learning to recognise specific coins and notes

        • What Money Is hard

          Must understand money as exchange medium before practising transactions

    • How the Economy Works hard

      Must understand basic economics (supply/demand, producers/consumers) before exploring international trade

      • Jobs People Do hard

        Must know about jobs/work before understanding producers and consumers in an economy

        • What Money Is soft

          Understanding money as exchange helps connect jobs to earning

      • Advertising & Spending soft

        Advertising knowledge helps understand how markets influence behaviour

        • Needs & Wants hard

          Must understand needs vs wants to critically evaluate advertising

          • What Money Is hard

            Must understand money exists and is limited before distinguishing needs from wants

        • Buying Things soft

          Buying experience provides context for understanding advertising pressure

          • Coins & Notes hard

            Must recognise coins/notes and their values before practising buying transactions

            • Coin Values soft

              Curriculum coins/notes recognition (Maths Y1) underpins exploratory coin knowledge

              • Reading and writing numbers to 20 hard

                Recognising coin values requires reading numerals (1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50)

                • How Many in Total? hard

                  Reading/writing numerals 0–20 requires understanding that numerals represent quantities (cardinality)

                  • One-to-one counting hard

                    Cardinality principle builds on one-to-one correspondence — you must count correctly to know the last number tells 'how many'

                • Writing digits 0-9 hard

                  Writing numerals requires the motor skill of forming digits 0-9 (taught in English handwriting)

            • What Money Is hard

              Must understand what money is before learning to recognise specific coins and notes

          • What Money Is hard

            Must understand money as exchange medium before practising transactions

      • Buying Things hard

        Must understand buying/selling before grasping supply and demand

        • Coins & Notes hard

          Must recognise coins/notes and their values before practising buying transactions

          • Coin Values soft

            Curriculum coins/notes recognition (Maths Y1) underpins exploratory coin knowledge

            • Reading and writing numbers to 20 hard

              Recognising coin values requires reading numerals (1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50)

              • How Many in Total? hard

                Reading/writing numerals 0–20 requires understanding that numerals represent quantities (cardinality)

                • One-to-one counting hard

                  Cardinality principle builds on one-to-one correspondence — you must count correctly to know the last number tells 'how many'

              • Writing digits 0-9 hard

                Writing numerals requires the motor skill of forming digits 0-9 (taught in English handwriting)

          • What Money Is hard

            Must understand what money is before learning to recognise specific coins and notes

        • What Money Is hard

          Must understand money as exchange medium before practising transactions

  • Costs & Revenue hard

    Must understand costs before seeing how supply chain stages add cost

    • Making Change soft

      Cross-domain: making change skills (Money & Finance) support profit calculation

      • Money Addition & Subtraction soft

        Curriculum money problem-solving (Maths Y2) provides arithmetic foundation for making change

      • Adding money and giving change soft

        Finding coin combinations (Maths Y2) supports change calculation

      • Coins & Notes hard

        Must recognise coin/note values before calculating change

        • Coin Values soft

          Curriculum coins/notes recognition (Maths Y1) underpins exploratory coin knowledge

          • Reading and writing numbers to 20 hard

            Recognising coin values requires reading numerals (1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50)

            • How Many in Total? hard

              Reading/writing numerals 0–20 requires understanding that numerals represent quantities (cardinality)

              • One-to-one counting hard

                Cardinality principle builds on one-to-one correspondence — you must count correctly to know the last number tells 'how many'

            • Writing digits 0-9 hard

              Writing numerals requires the motor skill of forming digits 0-9 (taught in English handwriting)

        • What Money Is hard

          Must understand what money is before learning to recognise specific coins and notes

      • Buying Things hard

        Must understand buying transactions before calculating change

        • Coins & Notes hard

          Must recognise coins/notes and their values before practising buying transactions

          • Coin Values soft

            Curriculum coins/notes recognition (Maths Y1) underpins exploratory coin knowledge

            • Reading and writing numbers to 20 hard

              Recognising coin values requires reading numerals (1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50)

              • How Many in Total? hard

                Reading/writing numerals 0–20 requires understanding that numerals represent quantities (cardinality)

                • One-to-one counting hard

                  Cardinality principle builds on one-to-one correspondence — you must count correctly to know the last number tells 'how many'

              • Writing digits 0-9 hard

                Writing numerals requires the motor skill of forming digits 0-9 (taught in English handwriting)

          • What Money Is hard

            Must understand what money is before learning to recognise specific coins and notes

        • What Money Is hard

          Must understand money as exchange medium before practising transactions

    • Making a Simple Plan hard

      Must understand planning before learning about costs and revenue

      • Budgeting Pocket Money soft

        Cross-domain: budgeting pocket money (Money & Finance) provides planning foundation

        • Needs & Wants hard

          Must understand needs vs wants to make budget trade-offs

          • What Money Is hard

            Must understand money exists and is limited before distinguishing needs from wants

        • Buying Things soft

          Buying experience helps with realistic budgeting

          • Coins & Notes hard

            Must recognise coins/notes and their values before practising buying transactions

            • Coin Values soft

              Curriculum coins/notes recognition (Maths Y1) underpins exploratory coin knowledge

              • Reading and writing numbers to 20 hard

                Recognising coin values requires reading numerals (1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50)

                • How Many in Total? hard

                  Reading/writing numerals 0–20 requires understanding that numerals represent quantities (cardinality)

                  • One-to-one counting hard

                    Cardinality principle builds on one-to-one correspondence — you must count correctly to know the last number tells 'how many'

                • Writing digits 0-9 hard

                  Writing numerals requires the motor skill of forming digits 0-9 (taught in English handwriting)

            • What Money Is hard

              Must understand what money is before learning to recognise specific coins and notes

          • What Money Is hard

            Must understand money as exchange medium before practising transactions

        • Saving Money hard

          Must understand saving concept before budgeting a fixed amount

          • Needs & Wants soft

            Understanding needs vs wants helps motivate saving decisions

            • What Money Is hard

              Must understand money exists and is limited before distinguishing needs from wants

          • What Money Is hard

            Must understand what money is before learning to save it

      • Having a Business Idea hard

        Must have a business idea before making a plan for it

        • Making Something to Sell hard

          Must have experience making something to sell before generating business ideas

          • Needs & Wants soft

            Cross-domain: needs vs wants (Money & Finance) helps understand what makes a product desirable

            • What Money Is hard

              Must understand money exists and is limited before distinguishing needs from wants

          • Goods & Services hard

            Must know what goods are before creating a product to sell

          • Buyers & Sellers hard

            Must understand exchange before making something to sell

            • Goods & Services hard

              Must understand goods and services before grasping buying and selling

            • What Money Is soft

              Cross-domain: understanding what money is (Money & Finance) supports grasping exchange

        • Who Is a Customer? hard

          Must understand customers before spotting problems to solve for them

          • Making Something to Sell soft

            Making a product helps understand what customers want

            • Needs & Wants soft

              Cross-domain: needs vs wants (Money & Finance) helps understand what makes a product desirable

              • What Money Is hard

                Must understand money exists and is limited before distinguishing needs from wants

            • Goods & Services hard

              Must know what goods are before creating a product to sell

            • Buyers & Sellers hard

              Must understand exchange before making something to sell

              • Goods & Services hard

                Must understand goods and services before grasping buying and selling

              • What Money Is soft

                Cross-domain: understanding what money is (Money & Finance) supports grasping exchange

          • Buyers & Sellers hard

            Must understand buyers and sellers before exploring customer concept in depth

            • Goods & Services hard

              Must understand goods and services before grasping buying and selling

            • What Money Is soft

              Cross-domain: understanding what money is (Money & Finance) supports grasping exchange

    • Buyers & Sellers hard

      Must understand buying/selling exchange before grasping revenue concept

      • Goods & Services hard

        Must understand goods and services before grasping buying and selling

      • What Money Is soft

        Cross-domain: understanding what money is (Money & Finance) supports grasping exchange

  • Goods & Services hard

    Must understand goods and services before tracing supply chains

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