Granny Patricia welcomes students to GreatCents City to explore earning income (CEE Standard 8-3), recognizing how education, training, and experience can increase their earning potential. Through activities like brainstorming ways to make money and planning a vacation, students connect financial planning to real-life decisions.

Pablo welcomes students to explore economic basics (Nebraska Social Studies 6.2.1), understanding how people make economic choices based on resources and opportunity costs. Through activities like identifying goods, services, and advertisements, distinguishing between wants and needs, and exploring the relationship between producers and consumers, students connect economic concepts to their everyday lives.

Iris guides students through opportunity cost (Nebraska Social Studies 6.2.1), helping them understand how economic choices are shaped by limited resources and trade-offs. Through activities like analyzing favorite companies, considering potential jobs, and exploring scarcity’s impact on career availability, students learn how every decision comes with alternatives and consequences.

Anabell guides students through entrepreneurship (Earning Income 8-2), helping them understand how businesses generate profit and the risks involved in starting one. Through activities like defining a business, planning for costs, and creating a business idea, students explore how economic conditions shape success. By the end, they will apply their learning by developing and presenting their own mini business plan.

Roscoe the talking raccoon guides students through the concept of human capital, helping them understand how knowledge, skills, and abilities contribute to personal growth and earning potential. Through activities like exploring the stages of growth in nature, identifying ways education, training, and experience impact earnings, and creating a one-year growth plan, students will reflect on their own development and plan for future success. By the end of the lesson, they will be able to explain how human capital increases over time and how they can grow their own to achieve their goals.