{"id":29,"date":"2007-09-09T04:14:42","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T04:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chestercomix.com\/blog\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2017-05-21T23:41:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T04:41:35","slug":"comix-economix","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/comix-economix\/","title":{"rendered":"Comix Economix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comic sample page #1: <a href=\"#1\">Why did people invent money?<\/a><br \/>\nComic sample page #2: <a href=\"#2\">What is your opportunity cost?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#topics\">Topics covered<\/a> in this comic book<br \/>\n<a href=\"#guide\">View the Teacher&#8217;s Guide<\/a> for this comic<\/p>\n<p>This is the fun way to teach complicated economic ideas like opportunity cost, supply and demand, taxes and capital resources. Chester the Crab explains economics using a trip to a video rental store, a safari with The Tax Hunter and the tracing of how a dollar changes forms as it goes through a suburban mall. This funny, colorful graphic novel will excite reluctant readers, prepare students for standardized tests and help homeschooling parents!<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"1\"><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium solid #000000;\" src=\"\/images\/comics\/economix-2.gif\" title=\"opportunity cost in an economic choice\" alt=\"opportunity cost in an economic choice\" border=\"0\" height=\"609\" width=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"2\"><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium solid #000000;\" src=\"\/images\/comics\/economix-1.gif\" title=\"invention money barter trade economic choice\" alt=\"invention money barter trade economic choice\" height=\"616\" width=\"539\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"topics\"><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Chapter 1: Video Economics<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every time you buy something you make an economic choice. Economics is the system of making and buying things that answer your needs and wants. Chester\u2019s friend Tamara has a want: a movie! Chester helps her make her choice by explaining why she is a \u201cconsumer\u201d wrestling with \u201csupply and demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nVideo Economics includes the following topics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How are needs and wants different?<br \/>\nWho are the economic consumers?<br \/>\nWho produces your economic choice?<br \/>\nHow do supply and demand balance?<br \/>\nWhat is your opportunity cost?<\/p>\n<p><strong> Chapter 2: Money Around the Mall<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chester follows some money around a mall as it changes from cash to a check to a bank account to a credit card. It is all money, but each form of money has its own uses and advantages. See if you can spot all the magic changes in this economic treasure hunt!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Money Around the Mall includes the following topics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why did people invent money?<br \/>\nHow do you turn chicks into checks?<br \/>\nWhy is a bank better than a jar?<br \/>\nHow do you buy now, pay later?<br \/>\nWhat is money good for?<\/p>\n<p><strong> Chapter 3: Career Resources<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What would you like to be when you grow up? Chester helps his friend Darryl think about that by looking at some jobs from 100 years ago. He also show how the jobs we do use human resources, natural resources, and capital resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Career Resources includes the following topics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What are economic resources?<br \/>\nWhat did doctors use in 1901?<br \/>\nHow did people vacation in 1901?<br \/>\nWho enforced the laws long ago?<br \/>\nWhat were teacher resources in 1901?<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nChapter 4: The Tax Hunter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taxes are a part of your citizenship in your country, state, or local government. We pay different kinds of taxes so that our government can do different kinds of things for us. Adults pay most of the taxes, but even kids can pay a sales tax on things they buy at a store. Chester hunts down some strange animals that remind him of the different kinds of taxes in America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Tax Hunter includes the following topics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who is the Tax Hunter?<br \/>\nWhat kind of property is taxed?<br \/>\nWhen is a sales tax collected?<br \/>\nWho pays the income tax?<br \/>\nWhat do excise taxes tax?<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"guide\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>View <a href=\"\/pdf\/guides\/economics.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the Teacher&#8217;s Guide for this comic.<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comic sample page #1: Why did people invent money? Comic sample page #2: What is your opportunity cost? 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