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Buddy Bargain and the Gang

• Kindergarten Program 1: How Money Works
  • Making Choices About Money
  • Goods and Services
  • How Consumers Use Money
  
• Kindergarten Program 2: How Families Make Money
  • Which Coins are Which?
  • Jobs in the Family
  • Families and Income
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• Grade 1 Program 1: Producing Producers
  • Examples of Goods and Services
  • What Do Producers Provide?
  • Different Kinds of Jobs
  
• Grade 1 Program 2: Getting Goods and Services
  • Coins and Currency
  • Money and Exchange
  • How is Income Used?
  
• Grade 1 Program 3: Making Money Choices
  • People Must Make Choices
  • Trade-Offs of Choices
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• Grade 2 Program 1: Buying and Selling
  • Satisfying Wants with Goods and Services
  • Consumers and Producers
  • Examples of Consumers and Producers
  
• Grade 2 Program 2: Spending or Stashing Your Cash
  • Exchanging Money for Purchases
  • Jobs, Income, and Employee Benefits
  • What Does it Mean to Save?
  
• Grade 2 Program 3: Picking Between Price Tags
  • The Decision-Making Process
  • The Opportunity Cost of a Choice
  • What is a Budget?

Sydney Good¢ents and Friends

• Grade 3 Program 1: Dollar Dilemmas
  • Producers and Consumers
  • Consumers and Their Wants
  • How Markets are Created
  
• Grade 3 Program 2: Money Mayhem
  • Some Resources are Limited
  • How Wants are Satisfied
  • Opportunity Costs
  
• Grade 3 Program 3: Earning Income and Incentives
  • Where People Save and Borrow
  • How Income is Used
  • Human Capital and Incentives
  • Employee Benefits and Jobs
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• Grade 4 Program 1: The Trade-Off Tug-of-War
  • Opportunity Costs of Activities
  • Most Decisions Require Trade-Offs
  • Costs Versus Benefits
  
• Grade 4 Program 2: A Supply and Demand Market
  • Market Economic System
  • Market Competition and Prices
  • Careers and Specialization
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• Grade 5 Program 1: Decisions, Decisions
  • Effects of Scarce Resources
  • What Influences Choices?
  • Decisions Involve Trade-Offs
  
• Grade 5 Program 2: Making a Buck
  • Producing Goods and Services
  • How are Prices Determined?
  • Competition Affects Prices
  
• Grade 5 Program 3: Helping Bankers Help You
  • What are Banks?
  • What is Credit?
  • Choices Have Financial Effects
  • Spending, Saving, and Borrowing
  • Positive and Negative Incentives
  
• Grade 5 Program 4: The Tax Man
  • How Governments Use Taxes
  • Government Revenue Sources

The Moolah Report - Cents-ible News

• Grade 6 Program 1:The Budget Balancing Act
  • Budgeting, Trade-Offs, and Opportunity Costs
  • Spending Less, Saving the Rest
  • Income Management and Payment Methods
  • To Spend, Save, or Borrow? That is the Question!
  
• Grade 6 Program 2: The Specs on Specialization
  • The Importance of Specialization
  • The Effect of Productivity on Income
  • Improving Productivity Through Specialization
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• Grade 7 Program 1: Personal and Public Benefits
  • Inflation and Deflation
  • Positive and Negative Incentives
  • Types of Employee Benefits
  • Government Goods and Services
  
• Grade 7 Program 2: Investing in Your Future
  • Human Capital Supply and Demand
  • What is Compound Interest?
  • Return, Liquidity, and Risk
  • Costs and Benefits of Spending, Saving, or Borrowing
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• Grade 8 Program 1: Income, Incentives, and Institutions
  • Types of Earned Income
  • Employee Responses to Positive and Negative Incentives
  • Specialized Economic Institutions
  
• Grade 8 Program 2: Starting the Savings Snowball
  • Saving Accumulation: Amount Saved, Rate of Return, and Time
  • Products and Services: Spending, Saving, or Borrowing Decisions
  • Calculating Interest and Account Balances
  
• Grade 8 Program 3: Mastering Your Money
  • Opportunity Cost: Decisions for Your Budget
  • Being an Informed Consumer