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3-5, 6-8

Using “New” Children’s Chapter Books to Teach Entrepreneurship

This session features two new chapter book series: Cleo Edison Oliver: Playground Millionaire and Billy Sure: Kid Entrepreneur.  Participants will be introduced to interactive lessons and hands-on activities concerning earning an income, saving for future purchases, spending, and the essenti…
On-Demand Webinar

3-5, 6-8

Homelessness in Children’s Literature Webinar Series: Saving and Income

This webinar focuses on fictional families facing some very real problems; hunger, parental illness, joblessness, unpaid bills, and homelessness. Students can learn valuable life lessons concerning earning, saving, spending, and creative problem solving in books such as Crenshaw, How to Stea…
On-Demand Webinar

9-12

Invest in Yourself

To explore the concept that people invest in themselves through education, the students work in two groups and participate in a game that highlights the importance of human capital.
Lesson

9-12

‘Be All You Can Be’…For Minimum Wage?

Perhaps you have seen the catchy TV ads for the various branches of the United States military. You know, the ones that tell you to "be all you can be...in the Army!." In the last decade, these advertisements have become necessary because compulsory military service (otherwise know…
Lesson

9-12

Should I Be a Professional Basketball Player?

The purpose of this lesson is to help you explore the relationship between education and income. Income is earned from one's resources. Those resources might be natural resources (oil field, farm land), capital resources (man-made resources that are used in the production of goods and serv…
Lesson

9-12

How Long Is Your Life?

High school students have rarely been asked to look at their future beyond where they will be going to college or what job they think they will have. This lesson asks you to think in a long-term perspective. By using a timeline, something you should be familiar with from past history cla…
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