This is a PACED decision activity for the Dr. Seuss book What Pet Should I Get.

1. Seuss-onomics:
Economic Decision-making with Dr. Seuss

2. PACED: Economic Decision-making

3. What is the Problem?
Dear Students:
My name is Kay. My brother and I are trying to decide what
pet we should get. We like all the pets! Dad said he would
pay but we can only have one. Mom says we have to be
back by noon. My mom would not like noisy things. She
would like a pet who fits into a small space. The pet house
can’t be too big because we don’t know if dad will pay for it.
Please help us make up our mind!
In the end, we narrowed our decision to dog, cat, fish, or
rabbit.
The Dr. Seuss Kids

4. What are the alternatives?

5. What are the alternatives?

6. What are the criteria?
Re-read the letter

7. Letter 1 Template
Date ___________________
Dear Kay and Jay,
Our team, __________________________________,
thinks that the order of pets, from best to worst, is
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The procedure we used to come up with this answer is
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Sincerely,
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