Lesson
Grades
- Kindergarten
- 1
- 2
Students will learn about economic concepts by living real-world situations.
Financial Literacy & Economics
Resources pertaining to financial literacy and economics, earning, budgeting, spending, saving, managing credit and investing.
April is Financial Literacy Month
President George W. Bush declared April as the month for Financial Literacy in 2004. Its purpose is to highlight the importance of being financially literate and to encourage people to learn about techniques that can assist them in becoming financially smart.
Lesson
This lesson will provide background knowledge and show how to create a mock budget.
Video
Grades
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
Episode
5
Opportunity cost is what you give up when you make a choice. It is also the highest-valued alternative you give up when you make a choice. Scarcity comes in to play when Herschel has an opportunity...
Video
Grades
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
Episode
4
A person who makes goods or provides services is a producer. Someone who buys and uses goods and services is a consumer. Teachers and students give many examples of both in this episode.
Video
Grades
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
Episode
2
There are 3 productive resources: natural resource, human resource and capital resource. Herschel's World of Economics helps you to understand the difference.
Video
Grades
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
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Episode
3
Art work that is one of a kind is scarce. Space, time and simple possessions can also be scarce. Dr. Dave helps Herschel to understand.
Video
Grades
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
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- 12
Episode
1
The ETV Stock Market Program - These five lessons are NEW for fall and provide information on economics and the stock market to accompany the SC Council on Economic Education's game that students...
Video
Grades
- 2
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- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
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Episode
1
Learning about earning money or income from featured entrepreneurs. Meet Jim McMillan, owner and manager of Tiffany's Bakery and 8th grader, Gracie Cromer, owner of Gracie's Gourmet.
Video
Grades
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
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Episode
4
Learn how to save money. Meet entrepreneur Nick Gregory, owner of superplain, a t-shirt business.
Video
Grades
- 2
- 3
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- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
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Episode
3
Learn about the responsibilities of borrowing money. Meet entrepreneur Aaron Moss, owner of Insert Name Here Designs. He's a 12th-grader who builds mobile applications for businesses.
Video
Grades
- 2
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- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
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Episode
5
What do you want to be when you grow up? Do you have knowledge or a skill that someone will want to pay for? It's never too early to think about your career choices. Meet nine year old Robert Charles...
Video
Grades
- Pre K
- Kindergarten
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Episode
3
Bear and Bull talk about creating a budget and how to save money.
Video
Grades
- 4
- 8
- 12
The lesson begins with a young man making an "economic decision" concerning the purchase of a pair of running shoes. The host defines economics beginning with, "Economics is that branch of the social...
Video
Grades
- 9
- 10
- 11
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- Higher Education
Since May 2014, Know Money Inc. Founder & Chief Financial Mentor Steven Hughes has worked with nearly 1,000 individuals, businesses, and nonprofit organizations across South Carolina to advance...
Video
Grades
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
The New York Stock Exchange is the largest stock market in the world. Approximately 2,300 companies belong to this market in which over 6 billion shares of stock are traded every day. In 1792, the...
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