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Catan Junior

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Explore the seas! Catan: Junior introduces a modified playing style of the classic Settlers of Catan, giving players as young as five a perfect introduction to the Catan series of games.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
Math
Special Education
Play Time: 
30 min.
Catan Junior

Stash That Cash: Budgeting (Saving and Investing for Teens) (2006)

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A teen with a job faces all kinds of decisions about how to use that paycheck: go out to dinner or save for a car? A new iPod or college tuition? Spring break at the beach or a long-term investment? Program introduces the concepts of money management and financial planning for the future in a fun, easy-to-understand manner.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:21
Stash That Cash: Budgeting (Saving and Investing for Teens)

Lunch Money (Unabridged)

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Greg Kenton has always had a natural talent for making money, despite the annoying rivalry of his neighbor Maura Shaw. Then, just before sixth grade, Greg makes a discovery: Almost every kid at school has an extra quarter or two to spend almost every day.

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Lexile: 
840L
Length: 
05:03
Lunch Money (Unabridged)

FREE: The Future of a Radical Price (Unabridged)

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The New York Times best-selling author heralds the future of business in Free. In his revolutionary best seller, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson demonstrated how the online marketplace creates niche markets, allowing products and consumers to connect in a way that has never been possible before.

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Lexile: 
1220L
Length: 
06:59
FREE: The Future of a Radical Price (Unabridged)

Making Money: Rosen Real Readers (Unabridged)

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Financial literacy can start at an early age, leading to a lifetime of benefits. Here's a children's book on the all-important topic of how to make money.

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00:03
Making Money: Rosen Real Readers (Unabridged)

Flat Broke: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Greed (Unabridged)

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As a punishment for lying, Kevin has lost his allowance. He doesn't lie now, but he's broke. He's got to find a way to make money. Lots of it, so he can impress Tina Zabinski, the World's Most Beautiful Girl, and ask her on a date. So Kevin gets creative - and his life becomes a financial comedy of errors. Does he really have what it takes to get filthy rich at age fourteen?

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Lexile: 
810L
Length: 
01:59
Flat Broke: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Greed (Unabridged)

Lunch Money

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Copies: 4

Greg Kenton has two obsessions -- making money and his long-standing competition with his annoying neighbor, Maura Shaw. So when Greg discovers that Maura is cutting into his booming Chunky Comics business with her own original illustrated minibooks, he's ready to declare war.

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840L
Lunch Money

Inequality for All (2013)

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A passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, INEQUALITY FOR ALL features Robert Reich-professor, best-selling author, and Clinton cabinet member-as he demonstrates how the widening income gap has a devastating impact on the American economy. The film is an intimate portrait of a man whose lifelong goal remains protecting those who are unable to protect themselves.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
01:30
Inequality for All

Roger & Me (1989)

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In 1989, Michael Moore, winner of 2002’s Best Documentary Feature Academy Award* and Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Bowling for Columbine, triumphantly burst upon the American moviemaking scene with Roger & Me, a hilarious, penetrating forerunner of the independent film movement.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
01:30
Roger & Me

Going, Going, GONE!

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Can you keep calm while bids are rising? Experience the exhilaration of real life auctions!

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
20 min.
Going, Going, GONE!

Splendor

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Splendor is a fast-paced and addictive game of chip-collecting and card development. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops—all in order to acquire the most prestige points.

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Middle
High
Content Area: 
Other
Play Time: 
30 min.
Splendor

Acquire

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This Sid Sackson classic has taken many different forms over the years depending on the publisher. Each player strategically invests in businesses, trying to retain a majority of stock.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
90 min.
Acquire

Counties Work

Do you want to make your community a better place to live? In Counties Work, you decide about the programs and services that affect everyone! Your choices shape the community, and your citizens’ satisfaction determines whether you’ll get re-elected for a second term. Choose wisely.

Nations

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From the humble beginnings of civilization through the historical ages of progress, mankind has lived, fought and built together in nations. Great nations protect and provide for their own, while fighting and competing against both other nations and nature itself.

Grade Level: 
High
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Play Time: 
180 min.
Nations

Pocket Change: Pitching in for a Better World

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Copies: 6

Do you need a bike to freecycle? What is microlending? Is it possible to live without using money? When were the first coins invented?

Lexile: 
NC1060L
Pocket Change: Pitching in for a Better World

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