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Economics

Saturday Sancocho

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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.

Grade Level
K-5
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