{"id":534508,"date":"2010-04-19T13:36:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T17:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2689"},"modified":"2010-04-19T13:36:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T17:36:05","slug":"teaching-economics-with-children%e2%80%99s-literature-the-berenstain-bears%e2%80%99-trouble-with-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/534508","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Economics with Children\u2019s Literature:  The Berenstain Bears\u2019 Trouble With Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/04\/9780394859170.jpg\" title=\"9780394859170.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/04\/9780394859170.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"9780394859170.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction and Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In <em>Trouble With Money<\/em>, by Stan and Jan Berenstain, Brother and Sister Bear are very good at spending money.\u00a0 Any time they receive money from a grandparent or from a neighbor, they run to the Country Mall and spend it all.\u00a0 One day their mother decides they should start receiving an allowance\u00a0 so that they may learn the value of money.\u00a0 Their father says that they should instead earn their money so Brother and Sister Bear decide to start doing odd jobs to make money.\u00a0 They begin to make a lot of money.\u00a0 When their father finds out that they start to sell the family&#8217;s secret location of the best honey trees he gets very upset.\u00a0 At the end of the story the little bears give their father all of their hard earned money so that he won&#8217;t have any worries about money.\u00a0 The cubs have learned a lesson!\u00a0 Finally they get to go to the bank to put the money into a savings account to earn interest.\u00a0 A great story for any child that is learning about the value of saving money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curriculum Connections <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Trouble With Money<\/em> could be a useful resource for first grade students that are learning about the value of money and about saving and spending.\u00a0 Students could have this book read to them or try to read it themselves.\u00a0 Then they could write a short passage about what they would do if they were given an allowance, save it or spend it.\u00a0 Students should be encouraged to think about money in a postive way. (VA SOL&#8217;s 1.7, 1.8, 1.9)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.econedlink.org\/lessons\/index.php?lesson=EM461&amp;page=teacher\">Every Penny Counts<\/a> &#8211; A lesson plan on money matters for elementary age children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsbank.com\/the_story\/penny\/index.asp\">The Adventures of Penny<\/a> &#8211; An interactive online tool about Penny, who likes to talk about money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orangekids.com\/\">Planet Orange <\/a>&#8211; Virtual lessons on saving and spending money for kids.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>General Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Book<\/strong>:<em>\u00a0 The Berenstain Bears&#8217; Trouble With Money<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Emperors-Birthday-Suit-Reading-paper\/dp\/0679874240\"><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Author<\/strong>:\u00a0 Stan and Jan Berenstain<br \/>\n<strong>Illustrator<\/strong>:\u00a0 Stain and Jan Berenstain<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher<\/strong>: Random House Inc.<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date<\/strong>: 1983<br \/>\n<strong>Pages<\/strong>: 30<br \/>\n<strong>Grade Range<\/strong>: K-2<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN<\/strong>: 0-394-85917-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Introduction and Summary In Trouble With Money, by Stan and Jan Berenstain, Brother and Sister Bear are very good at spending money.\u00a0 Any time they receive money from a grandparent or from a neighbor, they run to the Country Mall and spend it all.\u00a0 One day their mother decides they should start receiving an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}