What Do People Do All Day?
This is a picture book about the animals in Busytown, many of whom perform services to keep the town’s economy running.
Economic Concepts
- Goods
- Economic Wants
- Services
Grade Levels
- Primary (K-3)
University of Kansas Center for Economic Education
Lesson 5, What Do People Do All Day?
from Economics and Children’s Literature, Third Supplement
As the students learn about services, they play a guessing game to determine the services performed by their classmates. They review this economics concept by learning the second verse of the song, Buying and Selling. (from SPEC)