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PBS

Pbs: Antiques Roadshow: Preserving Antique Books

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS provides this antiques Road Show article that provides advise about collecting rare books.
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PBS

Pbs Antiques Roadshow: African American

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from PBS gives advise on finding and collecting African American collectables.
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PBS

Pbs: Antiques Roadshow: Ancient Beauties: Collecting Cameos

For Students 9th - 10th
Advise on collecting cameos and on determining their origin, value, and subject matter.
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PBS

Pbs: Antiques Roadshow: Tips of the Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
Advise on finding valuable collectibles, and tools that would be useful in helping you reveal their worth.
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PBS

Pbs Fanciful Figurines

For Students 9th - 10th
Information and advise about Staffordshire figurines.
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PBS

Pbs Antiques Roadshow: Detecting Faberge Fakes

For Students 9th - 10th
Information and advise on Faberge collectibles and determining the fakes from the real thing. A good site to learn about investing in authentic collectibles.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Fad or Fortune

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson focuses on collectibles and how they retain, lose, or gain value. In each round of a trading simulation, students will learn more about the value of their collectibles and discuss why items gain or lose value. They will...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Collecting for Fun . . . And Profit?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Art, baseball cards, coins, comic books, dolls, jewelry and stamps are just a few examples of the many things people collect. While some people collect for fun, others hope to profit. For this lesson, young scholars explore how supply...
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Play Ball

For Students 9th - 10th
Make a table to figure out if a baseball valued at $3000 in 1927 is worth more than a baseball valued at $3 million in 1999. Which is a better investment?