Be Cool to Your School
From Secret Millionaires Club · 2013
Summary
In this Secret Millionaires Club episode, the club takes on a fundraiser for their school, weighs the costs and payoff of each idea, and learns that a plan that flops is a chance to try a smarter one — a lesson Warren Buffett reinforces about learning from failure. 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.
Viewer safety
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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 was the club trying to raise money for, and how did they do it?
- What happened when their first fundraising idea didn't work?
- Why does Warren Buffett say failing at something can actually help you?
Quick work-a-long
Money words: fundraiser, goal, plan, cost, profit.
Try it: Plan a class fundraiser: name the goal, list one way to raise the money, and figure out what it would cost you to start.