A Midwestern Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 2
From Secret Millionaires Club · 2013
Summary
In this Secret Millionaires Club episode, the King Arthur adventure continues as the club tackles debt head-on, showing how borrowed money grows if it isn't paid back — and how to get out from under it (part 2 of 3). A ~22-minute animated story that makes a financial-literacy idea easy to drop into a social studies or economics lesson — with investor Warren Buffett as the kids' mentor.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Use these after watching to talk through the money-and-business idea in the episode.
- What problem with debt did the club run into?
- Why does debt get bigger the longer it goes unpaid?
- What steps can help someone pay off what they owe?
Quick work-a-long
Money words: debt, owe, interest, manage, repay.
Try it: Pretend you borrowed $10 and owe $2 more each week it's unpaid. Show how much you'd owe after two weeks, then explain how to avoid that.