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Potato: A Tale from the Great Depression

After reading and discussing a story about a family during the Great Depression, students differentiate between goods, services, barter, and money. Students are led through several rounds of a barter activity that incorporates math skills. Through this activity, students learn about the difficulties of using barter to satisfy wants.

Keywords:: Barter, International Trade, Economics, Wants, Currency, Trade, Consumers, Great Depression, Money

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Business / Economics

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Material Type:: Assignment
Date Added to MERLOT:: February 11, 2020
Date Modified in MERLOT:: February 28, 2020
Author:: Billy Britt, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Submitter:: Adrienne Brennecke
Primary Audience:: Pre-K
Technical Format:: PDF

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Language:: English
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Accessibility Information Available:: Yes
Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International