The Gift (with Bill Gates)
From Secret Millionaires Club · 2013
Summary
In this Secret Millionaires Club episode, with a guest appearance by Bill Gates, the club works together — sharing the load and weighing their options — to solve a problem, learning that good teamwork and smart giving go hand in hand. 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.
- How did the club work together to solve the problem?
- Why is teamwork helpful when a job is too big for one person?
- What did Bill Gates's visit teach the club about giving?
Quick work-a-long
Money words: teamwork, share, cooperate, choice, give.
Try it: Think of a group job at school. List two ways teammates could split the work fairly so it gets done well.