{"id":1896,"date":"2009-10-26T16:14:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T21:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1896"},"modified":"2009-10-26T16:14:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T21:14:49","slug":"teaching-economics-with-childrens-literature-cocoa-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/10\/26\/teaching-economics-with-childrens-literature-cocoa-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Economics with Children’s Literature: Cocoa Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cocoa Ice<\/a> tells the story of two little girls, each living in completely different parts of the world, whose daily activities directly impact the other.\u00a0 The first little girl lives in Santo Domingo and helps her family grow and harvest chocolate for a living.\u00a0 The second little girl lives in Maine, way up north, and helps her family (or rather watches her uncle) harvest ice from the river every winter.<\/p>\n

The second little girl’s Uncle rides in a schooner to the island where it is always summer and brings back chocolate in exchange for the ice they harvested in the very cold winter.<\/p>\n

It is clear that each of the little girls are fascinated by the process of creating chocolate or harvesting ice and even more fascinated by the faraway land that receives the chocolate or ice they work so hard for.<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections<\/strong>
\nCocoa Ice<\/u><\/a> introduces several concepts from the SOLs: 2.7 – describe natural, human, and capital resources, 2.8 – distinguish between use of barter and use of money, 2.9 – explain scarcity (limited resources), and 3.8 – recognize that people and regions cannot produce everything they want and therefore must trade for the rest.<\/p>\n

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