The Cost of Giving
From Secret Millionaires Club · 2013
22 min3rd4th5th6thSocial StudiesSocial-Emotional Learning
Summary
In this Secret Millionaires Club episode, the club wants to give back to their community, but learns that generosity still has a cost in time and money — so they plan how to help in a way they can keep up. 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 did the club give to help their community?
- What did giving cost them in time or money?
- How can you help others in a way you're able to keep doing?
Quick work-a-long
Money words: give, donate, community, cost, benefit.
Try it: Name one way you could help your community. Write one benefit it creates and one cost (time or money) it would take.