Tuck Everlasting
The Tuck family drinks the scarce water from a magic spring and become immortal. When Winnie Foster discovers this, the Tucks kidnap her. Complications occur when the man in the yellow suit also learns the secret and wants to market the spring water and make a fortune.
Economic Concepts
- Costs
- Benefits
- Natural Resources
- Demand
- Scarcity
Grade Levels
- Intermediate (4-6)
In this lesson, students discuss the costs and benefits of living forever for the Tuck family. Then they create advertisements for the “Water of Immortality.”
Print publication (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.