Week 2 Microsociety

On the second week of Microsociety our topic was currency.We talked about different currencies, and we were given the task of deciding what objects could be used as legal tender. Once we had decided what objects we thought would suitable for the job, we came to the conclusion that using notes would be the best idea because they can be exchanged and are easy to carry. The objects had to be able to split e.g a 50p coin can be exchanged for two 20p coins and a 10p coin. We also talked about what different countries have on their notes and coins, giving us ideas about what we could put on our notes.

After all this useful talk of money we had some ideas of what we would call our currency and what we wanted on the notes. We designed notes and chose which one we wanted, again using a democratic vote.