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Message to Educators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Annotated Lesson Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi Lesson 1: Look Out, You’re Surrounded! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Introduction to financial literacy; commerce vs. business; inflation; economic indicators; consumers and consumerism; exploring the Consumer Price Index. Lesson 2: Cave Man Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 The history of commerce; connecting barter to modern commerce; the deficiencies of barter; negotiation skills; exploring MBTI personality types. Lesson 3: Show Me the Medium of Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 The origins, functions, and characteristics of money; detecting counterfeit currency; exploring careers in cybersecurity. Lesson 4: The Money Morph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 The evolution of money; the gold standard; fiat money; central banks; the Fed and the money supply; Bitcoin and virtual currency; exploring the Federal Reserve Bank. Lesson 5: Crazy for Currency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 The history of currency; currency around the globe; currency conversion; purchasing power; the euro; exploring the Eurozone. Are You Financially Literate? Chapters 1-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Lesson 6: Crusaders, Unpleasant Peasants & Mobsters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The impact of money; the medieval revival of commerce; the origins of modern banking; wealth disparity in America; exploring investment banks and commercial banks. Lesson 7: Commerce Capitalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 The features of capitalism; property rights and profit; capitalism’s critics; socially conscious capitalism; the language of SoCap; exploring the Chamber of Commerce. Lesson 8: Commerce = the Sum of Many Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Sectors and industries of global commerce; innovation clusters; cluster mapping; tuning into career opportunities around the world; exploring the World Economic Forum. Are You Financially Literate? Chapters 6-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 PRODUCT PREVIEW
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