Far Out Future
From Secret Millionaires Club · 2013
22 min3rd4th5th6thSocial StudiesSocial-Emotional Learning
Summary
In this Secret Millionaires Club episode, a look at the future turns into a lesson on time management as the club learns to break a big task into steps and use their time wisely to get it all done. 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 made the club run short on time in this episode?
- How does breaking a big task into steps help you finish?
- What is one way you can use your own time more wisely?
Quick work-a-long
Money words: time, plan, steps, schedule, manage.
Try it: Pick a task that takes a while. Break it into three steps and guess how many minutes each step would take.