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Lesson: Banks, Bankers, Banking
Clickety Clack, Let's Keep Track!
This lesson will show students the importance of keeping track of their savings.
Banking is INTEREST-ing!
Banks are important to Americans. We use banks to save money and earn interest, or borrow money and pay interest. This lesson introduces the concepts of banking to children.
Old Business, New Business
In this lesson students are introduced to several businesses from the past. They see that, while the names for these businesses are different, many of the elements of that job are seen in occupations today. The web site, "Business Cards..." explains that many of our family names may have come the occupations of preceding generations. The activity at the end of this lesson allows children to create a paper object to symbolize the name of the job described. Ultimately, students may wish to investigate the origins of their own surnames and family businesses from long ago.
Related Publications
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Teaching Economics Using Children's Literature
This interdisciplinary curriculum guide helps teachers introduce their students to economics using popular children's stories.
10 out of 29 lessons from this publication relate to this EconEdLink lesson.
Playful Economics
Designed primarily for elementary and middle school students, each of the 15 lessons in this guide introduces an economics concept through activities with modeling clay.
2 out of 17 lessons from this publication relate to this EconEdLink lesson.
Focus: Economics - Grades 3-5
This publication contains fourteen lessons that use a unique blend of games, simulations, and role playing to illustrate economics in a way elementary students will enjoy.
2 out of 16 lessons from this publication relate to this EconEdLink lesson.