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**Samantha Jensen**
1.) Economics for Kids - [] This website provides you with lessons, PowerPoints, and fun activities for teaching students about the barter system, goods and services, credit/debit, and other lessons pertaining to economics. This site explains fun ways to teach children about economics!

2.) Social Studies for Kids - [] This website provides articles, and background information on a variety of subjects under the social studies umbrella. Some of the articles provided for economics include: Making a budget, The importance of trade, and how money has changed.

3.) H.I.P Pocket Change (The U.S. Mint) - [] This website is by the United States Mint, and has games and information about money just for kids! There are games to play that involve money, cartoons, and fun things to help students learn about the money system in the United States.

1.) All Aboard to Work—Choo-Choo! – By Carol Roth This book is a fun story about a group of animal families who is getting ready to start their busy days at work. Each worker steps on to the train and has a full day of work, then a train ride home to spend time with their children. It teaches children all about having __jobs__. 2.) Benny’s Pennies – By Pat Brisson This book is a fun 3-dimensional look at a boy who has 5 shiny new pennies. He wants to spend them all, and we learn all about sharing, spending, and generosity in this book. 3.) Betty Bunny Wants Everything – By Michael Kaplan This book is about Betty Bunny, who tries to convince her parents that she should get everything she wants, while her parents try to make her understand that she simply can’t have everything. This book is great for discussing the topic of wants vs. needs with students. 4.) __Earning Money__ (How Economics Works) – By Patricia J. Murphy This book teaches children about the importance of having a job, and how to earn, save, and spend money appropriately. This book shows children how they can __earn money__ outside of an allowance from their parents.

**Julie Finucan**
Web Address: [] This is a government run website that includes a lot of useful resources and tool on economics. The webpage provides a variety of links that will help students better understand economics. The links are all interactive and allow students to be creative while learning. The website __offers__ a variety of games, videos and activities to help students understand how money is made. Web Address: [] It is a great place to find economic resources for teachers and students. This website can be used to help teachers find appropriate economic lesson plans, current events, and data resources. It can also be used by students to help them better understand economics through their interactive tools. It is always beneficial for students to experience hands-on learning in social studies because they are a lot more likely to remember the information. Web Address: [] This website offers many different resources for teaching economics in the state of Florida. It helps teachers realize how many resources are around them and how they can be used to enhance economics in the classroom. There is even a link that helps teacher’s fine guest speakers to visit their class. The website also includes a list of teacher workshops taking place in Florida and a list of their top 10 websites for economic educators. [|**//The Go Around Dollar//**] by Barbara Johnston Adams The story describes the journey of a one dollar bill as it changes hands and how every dollar travels from person to person in a different way. Matt finds a dollar on his way home from school and uses it to buy shoelaces from Eric. Eric spends the dollar on bubble gum at the corner store. Jennifer, who happens to be the next customer, receives the dollar as part of her change. This book weaves together a fictional narrative about the travels of a single dollar along with facts and anecdotes that young readers will enjoy. A dollar bill is something we see and use every day and students need to understand its value and how it can be used. [|**//Round and Round the Money Goes//**] by Melvin and Gilda Berger This informative book gives a brief history of the development of money and explains how it is used in our economy. It follows the movement of money in earning, saving, spending and giving, in a clear and simple way. Economic terms such as interest, saving, and credit cards are explained. In addition, this story will help students learn how money, both paper and metal, is made. Currencies of other countries are also introduced and identified. This book provides clear information about how money is made and used in our economy. This is a story of a family of pigs who become hungry and decide that it is time to eat. The only problem is they do not have any money. They turn their house upside down on a quest for loose change and some bills to have enough to go and eat. In the back of the book, it summarizes how much money the pigs did collect and shows it in a simple set of columns that the children could add together. Students who need a challenge could be encouraged to determine how much money did they had left after their dining experience. This book is a great way to introduce the concept of money and how money is used to buy goods and services. It can also teach economic choices such as, needs and wants. **//__A Kid's Guide to Managing Money__//** **//__: a children's book about money management__//**by [|Joy Wilt] This is a children's book about money management. This book includes practical suggestions on how to raise and budget money. It also explains where money came from, why it is used today, and presents guidelines for managing, donating, saving, and spending it. This story would help students better understand the importance of managing money and how it affects a business. It is a non-fiction story that introduces a lot of economic vocabulary that will help prepare students for the future.
 * WEBSITE RESOURCES:**
 * __Kids.gov: A Place Where Kids can Create, Share, and Learn__**
 * Economics and __Personal Finance__ Resources for K-12**
 * Florida Council on Economic Education**
 * BOOKS:**
 * //__Pigs will be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money__//** by Amy Axelrod

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**Kyra Lipe**
- [] MAKE A TOWN LEARNING ACTIVITY <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> With this site students will learn about the components of houses, business structures and how they are arranged in a community. They will learn how each part of a community functions with and how each part relates to one another. They will learn about street signs, how to utilize them for directions and what each one tells us. This site also has patterns for paper houses and stores so they can arrange them into their own town. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">- [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">SHAREING YOUR TOWNS HISTORY <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This site talks about historic preservation and gets the students interested in wondering why certain buildings or monuments are preserved. This site helps students determine what in their own town they think should be preserved and why. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">- [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CARTOGRAPHY <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> This site is all about the history of maps, how the name came about and where the idea of the map began. There are a ton of links that explain the colors on a map, coordinates, keys and symbols. It also has sites listed on the side of possible lesson plans for various grades that go along with the information. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> **LITERATURE** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">: ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">- __//<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">On the Town, //__<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">__By: Judith Casey__ <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Charlie's homework was to explore the people and places in his community. "What is my community?" he asked his mother. So they took a walk to find out. With the bounce and humor that have characterized all her popular books over the years, Judith Caseley once again proves that when it comes to the primary school world, there is very little that she doesn't know. Charlie and his mother take a walk that can be taken by anyone with a keen sense of fun -- and open eyes and an inquiring mind. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">- __//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Me on the Map, //__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">__By: Joyce Sweeny__ <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">A young girl shows readers herself on a map of her room, her room on the map of her house, her house on the map of her street--all the way to her country on a map of the world. Once the reader is familiar with the maps, she demonstrates how readers can find their own country, state, and town--all the way back to their room--on each colorful map. Easy-to-read text, bright artwork, and charming details give children a lot to search for and will have them eager to help navigate on the next family <span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> vacation. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">- __//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Where do I Live?, //__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">__By: Neil Chesanow__ <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book explains to children exactly where they live. It starts with their room, in their home, in their neighborhood, in their town, their state, their country-then moves out to the planet earth, the solar system, and the Milky Way galaxy. From there, children trace their way home again. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">- __//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pigs will be Pigs! //__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">__By: Amy Axelrod__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book follows the pigs as they discover they are hungry but don’t have any money. So they begin their search! When they get to the restaurant they must figure out how much they have and what they can buy.
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