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Appreciate Liberty
Markets All Around

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Info for Grown Ups
Activities that are part of everyday life offer opportunities to help children appreciate liberty.

Evidence of Trade

Help you child understand that everyday sights and experiences can demonstrate the fruits of free markets.
 Agriculture
  • crops growing, animals grazing
  • farmers working
 Raw Materials
  • mines operating
  • wells pumping
Transportation           
  • trains carrying shipping containers
  • semi's carrying lumber, fuel, manufactured goods 
  • delivery trucks
Manufacturing
  • factories
  • familiar products and brands
Retailing
  • stores 
  • shopping centers
  • farmstands
Services
  • restaurants
  • maintenance and repair crews and vehicles
  • medical and dental appointments
  • automobile servicing
  • barbers and beauticians

Where Does It Come From?

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While shopping or after purchasing, point out the origins of goods. Talk about why they are grown or manufactured in those places.
  • fruits and vegetables
  • clothes and shoes
  • cars and bicycles
  • toys and games
  • tools

Farmers' Market

Visit a farmers' market to purchase fresh items.
Help your child compare costs and quality.

​Suggested Questions:
How is the farmer's market different from a grocery
store?
Why do the different stands only sell certain types of
food?

On Line Resources

Five Fun Farmers’ Market Learning Activities for Kids

Maple Sugaring

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Visit a maple sugaring operation.
Make sure your child understands how the sap collection system works.
Observe the vats of boiling sap.
 
Suggested questions
  • Where do maple trees grow?
  • In what season is the sap collected? Why?
  • How many gallons of sap are needed to make a gallon of maple syrup?
  • How does the syrup get to the customers? ​

 Literature Connection

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Night Markets: Bringing Food to a City
          by Joshua Horwitz
This book clearly answers a question: how do the millions of residents of New York City eat when the city has almost no agriculture? It then describes the wholesalers that supply food for NYC, where it all comes from, and how it gets there. Though dated, out of print, and perhaps too graphic for some children (text and photos detail how a slaughtered calf is turned into veal cutlets), this is still a great book for helping children grasp the vastness of world trade.
Read an online photocopy of the book. 

Markets Around the World
            by Casey Null Petersen
Learn about outdoor markets in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and the United States. Colorful photographs and charts, information about what is for sale, a world map and a  glossary combine to make this a great demonstration of how people buy and sell all over the world.

An Orange in January
            by Diana Huts Aston
Using charming illustrations, this is the story of an orange from pollination through consumption. In the process, the book demonstrates how workers in a variety of occupations make it possible for a child in a cold climate to eat a fresh orange in the middle of winter. The text is suitable for young children.

Related Links

 Free Trade
Free Markets
​Work and Specialization
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Benefits of Trade
Info for Grown Ups about Outings
Assure that your child takes away the lessons you want him/her to learn by:
  • explaining ahead what you will see and do
  • composing questions you hope to have answered
  • discussing the answers after the outing 
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  • Home
  • Principles
    • What is Liberty?
    • Why Libertry is Important
    • Cooperation and Coercion
    • Free Trade
  • History
    • Declaration of Independence
    • Revolutionary War
    • The Bill of Rights
    • Slavery, Abolition, and the Underground Railroad
    • Immigration
  • Champions
    • Frederick Douglass
    • Thomas Jefferson
    • Paul Revere
    • Jackie Robinson
    • Harriet Tubman
    • George Washington
    • Malala Yousafzai
  • Economic Liberty
    • Poverty and Prosperity
    • Work and Specialization
    • Free Markets
    • Benefits of Trade
    • Entrepreneurship
    • When Trade is Limited
  • Appreciate Liberty
    • Markets All Around
    • All KInds of Work
    • Life Without Liberty
  • Contact
  • About Me