Make Four Million Dollars By Next Thursday
Jason Nozzle wants to be a multi-millionaire. He finds a book called, Make Four Million Dollar$ By Next Thur$day, which instructs the reader on how to become exceedingly wealthy. He thinks if he follows the strange instructions in the book, he will be rich, but soon finds it doesn’t work, and maybe that isn’t the most important thing to be worrying about anyway.
Economic Concepts
- Unlimited Wants
- Goods
- Services
Grade Levels
- Intermediate (4-6)
Description of Lesson 11, Make Four Million Dollar$ By Next Thur$day
from Economics and Children’s Literature, Supplement 2
Students read the books and explore Jason’s unlimited wants for goods and services. Then they examine their own wants and decide what they would buy with four million dollars.