Big Things Come in Micro Packages
From Secret Millionaires Club · 2013
22 min3rd4th5th6thSocial Studies
Summary
In this Secret Millionaires Club episode, the club learns how a tiny loan — a microloan — can give a new entrepreneur the start they need, showing how banks and lenders help people build businesses. 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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Ages 7+
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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 is a microloan, and who did it help in this episode?
- How do banks and lenders help people start businesses?
- Why can even a small amount of money make a big difference to a new business?
Quick work-a-long
Money words: loan, microloan, lender, bank, entrepreneur.
Try it: Imagine a friend needs $15 to start a small business. Write what they'd spend it on and how they'd pay the loan back.