JMU’s Lynne Stover continues to play a key role in the state delivery of the “Reading Makes Cent$” program sponsored by the Virginia Council on Economic Education and Virginia 529. The program includes free economics-related books for the libraries, associated instructional materials, and competitions for the students. Lessons authored by Stover and edited by the Virginia Council on Economic Education are available for each title.
For the new school year, the three featured titles are:
Lesson: Alexander Who used to be Rich Last Sunday
GRADES: K-12
CONCEPTS: Opportunity Cost, Saving, Spending
SOURCE: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Lesson: Booker T. Washington: “Fifty Cents and a Dream”
GRADES: K-5
CONCEPTS: Capital, Capital Resources, Decision Making, Economic Growth, Human Resources, Income, Job, Productive Resources, Scarcity, Specialization
SOURCE: EconEdLink.org
Lesson: Bunny Money
GRADES: K-3
CONCEPTS: Goods, Interest, Long-term goals, Saving, Savings goal, Short-term Goals, Spending
SOURCE: Federal Reserve Banks of St. Louis
Lesson: The Colonial Worker’s Web
GRADES: 4-8
CONCEPTS: goods, services, producers, consumers, self-sufficiency, specialization, interdependence, barter
SOURCE: Adventures in Economics and U.S. History, Volume 1
Lesson: The Goat in the Rug
GRADES: 1-3
CONCEPTS: Natural Resources, Human Resources, Capital Resources, Intermediate Goods, Producers
SOURCE: Economics and Children’s Literature
Lesson: How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
GRADES: 3-5
CONCEPTS: Production, Interdependence, Global Market
SOURCE: Loudon County Public Schools
Lesson: If you Give a Mouse a Cookie
GRADES: 1-3
CONCEPTS: Unlimited Wants, Goods, Services,
SOURCE: Economics and Children’s Literature
Lesson: Money, Money, Honey Bunny
Lesson: One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
Opportunity Cost Lesson
GRADES: 3-5
CONCEPTS: Borrow, Entrepreneurship, Income, Money, Profit, Save
SOURCE: EconEdLink.org
Lesson: One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
Resource Relay Lesson
GRADES: 3-5
CONCEPTS: Choice, Opportunity Cost
SOURCE: JMU Center for Economic Education
Lesson: The Pickle Patch Bathtub
GRADES: 3-5
CONCEPTS: Opportunity Cost, Saving, Saving Goal, Saving Plan
SOURCE: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Lesson: Potato, A Tale of the Great Depression
GRADES: K-3
CONCEPTS: Barter, Consumers, Goods, Income, Money, Wants
SOURCE: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Lesson: Saturday Sancocho
GRADES: 3-5
CONCEPTS: Barter, Coincidence of Wants, Money
SOURCE: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Lesson: Saving Strawberry Farm
GRADES: 3-5
CONCEPTS: Banks, Goods, Services, Saving
SOURCE: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Lesson: Something from Nothing
GRADES: 3-5
CONCEPTS: Changes, Opportunity Cost
SOURCE: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Lesson: What Pet Should I Get?: Dr. Seuss and Decision Making
GRADES: K-5
CONCEPTS: Choice, Cost/Benefit Analysis, Decision Making, Goods, Opportunity Cost, Scarcity, Services
SOURCE: EconEdLink.org
