Student learning

• The story highlights the need for people to be resourceful and enterprising when they need more than what is immediately available.
• Communities facing the situation described in the book often need to resort to bartering to gain what they need.
• Not only are the goods and services in the shops scarce, so are the resources used to produce them.
• People then rely on what they do best (specialisation) and trade these skills for other goods and services they either need or desire.
• The success of bartering relies on both parties wanting what the other has to offer.
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Curriculum links

This unit of work relates to the following key competencies and values:
Thinking; Relating to Others; Managing Self; Participating and Contributing; Excellence; Innovation, Inquiry and Curiosity; Equity; Community; Integrity.

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Students taking part will

• Describe the enterprising and entrepreneurial attributes that the people in this book have.
• Add up the cost of this coat in terms of the prices paid for the materials to make the coat.
• List the different types of work people do in this story.
• Classify resources into Natural, Human, Capital and Material Resources categories.
• Describe the act of bartering and why this system of exchange would or would not work in society in general.
• Distinguish between what we do for financial reward and what we do voluntarily for our community, using this book to give examples.

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• ESB5: A New Coat for Anna

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