Week 2 - Currency

We discussed different types of currency that were used around the world. Some people still use these types of currency now. The money we talked about included foreign types of money. Next, we discussed different objects that were once used as money. These currency included shells, gold, cows, diamonds and coins.

The next microsociety session, some children brought in their monopoly sets so we could play a game. For sometime, the class had their own mini games. Near to the end of the day, we discussed what would be the best strategy. Some people thought it would be best to buy everything you landed on and some people thought it would be best to not buy anything and save your money. It turns out, it indeed would be best to buy everything because you would get all your money from the rent that other people would have to pay you.

We also decided what our society name would be. Last week we had decided on our flag so this week we would have to decide on our name. There were lots of different ideas. We held a vote and in the end we decided it would be alpha centauri.