A representative from local food pantry is invited to school to receive the food collected by the classes. Students come to the media center to research careers from list of books on careers and CD-ROM encyclopedias. Students are told that the end product, to be presented on Day 20, will be a poster, a book with pictures, a videotape or a Hyperstudio presentation. Students take a field trip to a television studio. The value of various coins and paper money are reviewed.
Students create their own marketplace by making and bringing in things from home to buy and sell.
Play money is used to practice money skills each day. Teachers reads to the class from the list of books on money and what it buys. Make up a cafeteria restaurant menu with the class's favorite foods and prices and then calculate the cost of different food combinations. Students share career projects began on Day 12. Parents provide treats for students to buy with play money.