⏲️ Timing and Materials

Participant Information

Target Grade Levels: 3rd-5th
Ideal Number of Students: 20-45 
Ideal Number of Volunteers: 10-12

Timing

This lesson can be completed in approximately 1.5 hours.

Materials

Printing Instructions: To complete your Lemonade Supply Chain Game lesson, download the materials at apics.org/supplychainstem.

You may also click here to download and print the Supply Chain poster and the Human Supply Chain cards, which include:

• Lemon Team cards
• Sugar Team cards
• Water & Ice Team cards
• Lemon Distribution Team cards
• Transportation Team cards
• People Team cards

Once you’ve downloaded the materials

• Print double sided and laminate reusable cards on 8.5 x 11 paper.
• Students form their sections of the lemonade supply chain in front of the class and stay in front of the class until the entire supply chain is built.
• After the students have built their supply chain in front of the class, compare their supply chain with the lemonade supply chain on page 10 of the classroom PowerPoint.

For your convenience, we have provided both letter and legal sized versions of these materials. We recommend using legal-sized paper if available. Print each page single-sided at 100%.