Music, Music For Everyone
Rosa plays her accordion with her friends in the Oak Street Band and earns income to help her mother with expenses while her grandmother is sick.
Economic Concepts
- Income
- Services
- Human Capital
Grade Levels
- Primary (K-3)
University of Kansas Center for Economic Education
In this lesson, students read the story and learn about the investment in human capital involved in playing a musical instrument in a band. (Print publication – lesson not available online.)
Flowers, B., Meszaros, B., & Suiter, M. C. (1994). Economics and
Children’s Literature 1994 Supplement. Coulson E. C. & McCorkle S.
(Eds.). SPEC Publishers, Inc. St. Louis, Missouri.