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Want to motivate even your most unmotivated students? Teach how to "legally" create wealth. Students are intrinsically motivated to learn about money. This is the fifth blog in the series about the unit, Economic Endeavors.

Teach your students to think and communicate about the ideas of wealth, sign and symbol, economics, labor, commerce, and judgment. This is the fourth installment in a series of blogs about creating a real, working classroom economy.

I received an email the other day from a former student. She is right. Learning is fun.
Hello Mr. Z !

A cursory internet search, inspired by whim, yielded your digital address.
I can finally "say" to you what I have wanted to for 12 years.
It begins thus:

I didn't start a checking account until I was 22 years old; despite having a savings account from the age of 16.
I started a checking account due to prompting by an employer (who was also very instrumental in my ongoing commitment to personal health insurance).
However...I found myself in the grocery store one day, wielding my new checkbook. My groceries were tallied and I was given the total. I opened up my checkbook...and for a heart-stopping moment thought: 'I have no idea what to do.'
Until I remembered "Z-bucks" and the "Z-store", and in one blinding flash I realized, I KNEW how to write checks! From there it was a breeze.
I've always wanted to thank-you for those preliminary lessons in oft-sidelined (but very necessary) home economics.
So, THANK YOU!
I'm currently in a Ph.D program in Entomology at Clemson University. I recently won the most prestigious fellowship offered by the National Science Foundation, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Thank you for contributing to my upbringing.
My best,
Holly Tuten

This is the second installment in a series of blogs detailing the steps in creating a year long economics unit. The value of understanding what is involved in earning a living and managing money is important in our market driven economy. The jobs may change with the age of the child, but the core ideas of money, economics, initiative, organization, and choice remain. The unit places in action the principles found in "Learner-Centered Psychological Principles: Guidelines for School Design and Reform (McCombs, B.L. 1993).