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Econ Ed Link: Booker T. Washington:"fifty Cents and a Dream"

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Young Booker T. Washington had a dream. That dream was to use the resources at his disposal to earn the money necessary to get an education that would allow him and others to become financially secure. This lesson based on the picture book Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington by Jabari Asim challenges young learners to make connections between history and economic concepts.

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Concepts
booker t. washington, capital resources, economic growth, human resources, income, scarcity, specialization
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Additional Tags
capital, council for economic education, decision making, econedlink, fifty cents and a dream, job, productive resources, goods, services, and consumers
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)