A school of fish

There was SO much good stuff to learn in this unit, but the thing I wanted to teach the children most of all was how to be grateful for an...

For various reasons, we don't do allowance in our family, and I didn't want to start now, but it seemed like it might be nice t...

Debt is such a relevant subject. There's a temporal and a spiritual component to it. And since it's our children who are saddled w...

For this activity, I told the children that they had to jump down the stairs from the very highest step they were willing to jump from. W...

We got the idea for this inflation activity here . This one was SO FUN. And it did a good job showing how a minimum wage leads to highe...

I don't expect anyone to follow my garbled lecture notes here! There is quite a lot left out. But I was pleased with the way this dis...

The children, who are quite mercenary little creatures at the best of times, were driven to many new heights of enterprise during this Ec...

I found this  "Snowman Soup" activity  online and it seemed like a good way to talk about profits, brands, and marketing. The a...

Our local Credit Union was happy to let us come have a tour, and the manager was so nice! I am always amazed at how nice people are when ...

Before we learned about currency, I went to the bank and got out one of everything—gold dollars, half dollars, and all the other coins an...

As multiple books on money pointed out, bartering is what all children do automatically with their Halloween candy! Everyone has probably...

(Click any section to enlarge) I've been wanting to do a unit on Economics for a long time, but every time I started trying to ...