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Shop Local

Price: $2.99, format: 7 page PDF, grades: 2,3,4,5

What happens to the money you spend in stores? Why is it important to support small local businesses in your community? How do the community in turn benefit from those businesses? This issue looks at some basic economic principles about the relationship between exchanging money for goods and services. Young readers will use the newspaper to identify local businesses and practice graphing writing and interpretation skills while learning some market savvy terms.

In this issue students will:
• learn the benefits of supporting the local economy
• practice displaying data in a variety of forms
• learn more about their local government and officials
• read about a young inventor who started a business of his own
• use the internet to learn more about basic economic principles