Music Connection:
Remind students to consider carefullly what they hear in commercials. As consumers, students should weigh the costs and benefits of their spending decisions.


Commercials
(Tune: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean)

Verse:
Commercials tell us what is pretty.
Commercials tell us what is great.
Commercials tell us what is tasty.
Commercials tell us not to wait.

Chorus:
Commercials, commercials,
Commercials tell us how to spend and why.
Commercials, commercials,
Commercials tell us what to buy.

 

(By Martha Hopkins & Donna Wright) Used with permission. From Financial Fitness for Life: Pocket Power, K-2

Copyright© 2001, National Council on Economic Education, - 1/2009 Name changed to Council for Economic Education (CEE) New York, NY. All rights reserved.



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Part 2 of Pint-Size Economics has
eight lessons on being a wise consumer.

  • Wise use of your money
  • Brands and labels
  • Credit Cards
  • Sales and coupons, and more...!