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Students participate in a trading simulation to learn about barter and the benefits of using money. Working in pairs, students receive information cards on different forms of money used during U.S. history and identify specific problems with each.

My Money is an educational workbook for students in K-2. Lessons include: What is Money?, Money Equivalents, and Jobs, Money, Goods and Services. Includes a teacher's guide. Also available in Spanish.

To experience problems with barter, students participate in a simulation in which they barter to obtain ingredients to make cookies. Repeating the simulation using money, they learn about the advantages of using money.

Students listen to a story about a family in Central America that barters to get the ingredients for chicken sancocho. The students record the various trades, and they also participate in trading activities that illustrate money’s advantages over barter.