How Do We Get The Things We Want?
Learn more about goods and services, barter and trade, currency, and money.
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Lessons & Activities
1 Hour+
Saturday Sancocho
OVERVIEW
This activity describes how a family uses bartering to obtain the ingredients for a family recipe. They participate in a trading activity where they barter with each other and learn about the difficulties associated with barter. They use money in a second round of the trading activity to learn about money’s advantages over barter.
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