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Make Your Own Money
Content area(s):
Business & Economics, Community Interest,
Grade levels: high
Author(s) & location: Janice Cooper, Old Tappan, NJ, USA
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Description
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"Bills. Bread. Cash. Dinero. Dough. Loot. Moolah. Cha-Ching. Money.
As the song says, "A Mark, a Yen, a Buck, or a Pound is all that makes the world go around, that clinking Clanking sound, can make the world go around."
But, what IS money? - Where does it come from?
- How does it get its value?
- How does it reflect what the community values, conceptually and artistically?
- Does anyone or any group have enough of it?
Did you know that you can, legally, make your own money?
What kind of money would you make?"
Question: "Can you plan an alternative money system to help you to raise the money your community needs?"
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What makes this an interesting WebQuest
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- This is a very engagingly written, graphically well-presented, and thoroughly researched / developed WebQuest.
- This approach and topic must be something decidedly different for most economics students.
- The Teacher's Page is outstandingly detailed so that others really could implement the WebQuest for a range of uses and Standards.
- Creative use of Insight Reflectors at both ends of the activity.
- The use of questions and related "how-to" resources challenge high school students to construct their own meaning. Less motivated / creative students may benefit from a product template that more explicitly guides them through constructing a plan.
- In the company of her previous Coming Soon to a School Near You: A Project on Youth Gangs this Alternative Money WebQuest further establishes Janice's place as one of the very top rank of WebQuest developers.
- In the interests of transparency, Janice made fairly minor modifications to this WebQuest as a participant in BWQU - BestWebQuests University.
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