What’s New: Featuring Funny Characters Learning Life Lessons

In this webinar teachers will:

• Explore the concept of the value of using children’s literature to teach in the content areas.
• Relate the concepts of scarcity, goods, services, opportunity cost, entrepreneurship, and decision-making as they pertain to the featured titles.
• Investigate the cross curricular possibilities of the topic as related to the social sciences and creative problem solving.
• Review an annotated bibliography listing new children’s books that contain economic and personal finance content.
• Consider the National Economics Content Standards: Standard 1: Scarcity, Standard 2: Decision Making, Standard 6: Specialization, Standard 14: Entrepreneurship
• Consider the National Standards for Financial Literacy: I Earning Income, II Buying and Selling Goods, IV. Using Credit