Workshop Description

“Bluey-conomics: It’s Not All About the Money” at the Virginia Social Studies Summit

In this session we share how to use the popular TV show “Bluey” along with economic concepts to teach about life’s choices. We provide video clips from Bluey, examples of economic thinking from various episodes, and alignment with discussion questions and standards. All participants receive a classroom-tested active-learning lesson plan about the episode entitled “Markets,” which we demonstrate in the session.

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Virginia Commonwealth University Center for Economic Education

Feb 21, 2025
All Day
Virginia Museum of History and Culture
428 N Boulevard
Richmond, VA 23220
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Potential Recertification Credits: 1

This session expands on an article that will be published in 2025 in Social Studies and the Young Learner. We created a table containing many examples of economic reasoning in. Bluey and aligned them with the C3 Framework. We divide the economics in the show into “market” and “non-market” choices. That means that some of the economics in Bluey has to do with money, and some doesn’t. Bluey is perfect for examining these “market vs. non-market” aspects of economics because it has so many instances of the characters in the show needing to make tough, everyday life choices.

The session includes an active-learning lesson in which participants play a trading game. they must trade to get the resources they need to create products for their booth in a market. This is based on the Bluey episode “Markets,” and aligns Virginia HSS standards in K-3 economics, namely those pertaining to productive resources, specialization, interdependence, trade, and goods and services.

Both Bluey and our session draw young children from their immediate context of personal choice-making, and lead them to understand the world around them, therefore perfectly demonstrating the “Local to Global” theme of the conference.

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Fee: NO CHARGE


Instructor: Stephen H. Day, PhD, Director
Contact Person:
Stephen H. Day, PhD, Director
Center for Economic Education
Virginia Commonwealth University
(804) 828-1628
shday@vcu.edu

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