"Please read me a story," kids often ask. Parents who say yes know that reading to their children helps them in many ways and opens up the opportunity to talk about or teach important ideas. Choose one of these books and print our one-page parent Q&A to go with it. You'll be able to have a conversation with your children about saving, spending, savings goals, making careful decisions, and many other personal finance and economics concepts that relate to their everyday lives.
Teachers: Lesson plans are included for most of the Q&A books.
Related: Watch a short video as 3- and 4-year-olds get a taste of personal finance education, and see what parents have to say about starting so young.
Concepts: human resources, income, saving, and savings goal.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
Concepts: opportunity cost, saving, savings goal, and spending.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
Concepts: goods, employee, employer, income, installment plan, job, money, and services.
For children 8 to 11 years old.
Concepts: choice, scarcity, and wants.
For children 3 to 7 years old.
This book is also used in Kiddynomics: An Economics Curriculum for Young Learners.
Concepts: saving, savings goal, earning income, and gift money.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
Concepts: dividend, entrepreneur, investor, profit, revenue, risk, and tax.
For children 8 to 11 years old.
Concepts: saving, savings goal, bank, and income.
For children 3 to 7 years old.
This book is also used in Kiddynomics: An Economics Curriculum for Young Learners.
Concepts: goods, services, capital resources, human resources, intermediate goods, and natural resources.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
Concepts: goods, saving, and spending.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
Concepts: barter, characteristics of money, interest, and money.
For children 7 to 10 years old.
Concepts: entrepreneur, loan, and saving.
For children 8 to 10 years old.
Concepts: barter, consumers, goods, services, income, and wants.
For children 7 to 9 years old.
Concepts: mortgage, note, and collateral.
For children 10 to 13 years old.
Concepts: bartering, coincidence of wants, exchange, and money.
For children 8 to 10 years old.
Concepts: human capital, human resources, productivity, and physical capital.
For children 7 to 10 years old.
Concepts: saving, savings, and opportunity cost.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
Concepts: benefits, capital resources, choices, decisionmaking, human capital, human resources, income, labor, natural resources, and property rights.
For children 8 to 12 years old.
Concepts: consumers, goods, price, and sellers.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
Concepts: bank, income, interest, saving, and spending.
For children 8 to 10 years old.
Concepts: advertising, consumers, goods, and services.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
Concepts: opportunity cost, saving, savings goal, and savings plan.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
Concepts: natural resources, human resources, capital resources, and intermediate goods.
For children 8 to 10 years old.
Concepts: bank failure, opportunity cost, saving, savings goal, and segregation.
For children 7 to 10 years old.
Concepts: saving and spending.
For children 5 to 8 years old.
Econ Lowdown resources can help your Boy Scout earn the Personal Management merit badge, one of the requirements to become an Eagle Scout. Several Econ Lowdown video segments are included in the online booklet for Scouts to earn the Personal Management merit badge.
