What’s Cooking Jenny Archer
; Little, Brown Young Readers 2006
Jenny Archer doesn’t like the lunches served at school, so she decides to produce her own. When her friends see her lunches, they decide to pay her to make their lunches, too. Jenny sees this as an opportunity to make a little profit, but there are a few problems that Jenny didn’t count on.
Economic Concepts
- Cost of Production
- Revenue
- Loss
- Profit
Grade Levels
- Intermediate (4-6)
Related Subjects
- Entrepreneurship
- Personal Finance
- Math
- Health (Nutrition)
Lesson 7, What’s Cooking Jenny Archer
from Economics and Children’s Literature, Supplement 2:
Students learn about healthy eating habits as well as about calculating the expenses and profits in a business.
Lesson available online through the Minnesota Council on Economic Education