Second Graders Invest in Apple Business
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Indian Creek 2nd grade entrepreneurs are busy selling apples. Students started off by talking with Regions Bank to secure a loan for $300 to purchase apples. They were then busy marketing the upcoming sale around the school in an effort to pay off the loan with interest and hopefully make a little profit.
Through this economics lesson, students benefit by learning about money (borrowing, counting change), marketing (what works, what doesn’t), and teamwork, to name a few. With the remaining apples, students will look at the many uses of apples and will make and sample several different recipes.
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TomBritt | Sep 20, 2007 | Reply
do you know where they are selling them?
Ditz | Sep 21, 2007 | Reply
The children sell the apples to the other students in the school.
lauragates | Sep 24, 2007 | Reply
Here’s another local elementary doing an apple project this season:
Skiles Test second graders are doing a service project titled HANDS- Helping all neighbors by doing service. The second grade classes from Skiles Test took a field trip to Tuttle Orchards in Greenfield. We use this trip to reinforce our study of Economics as well as a way to bring community service into our classrooms. Our many hands picked 307 pounds of apples to bring back to school and sell. We carry the apples around the school in wagons and sell the apples for 50 cents each. We will be donating the proceeds to Riley Hospital in Indianapolis.