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Dr. Read from Stillman Valley IL is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Learning Financial Literacy with Settlers of Catan

Help me give my students Setters of Catan Expansion set to learn Financial Literacy how to use the Medium of Exchange.

  • $204 goal

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My Students

I teach business and technology to some of the most creative, curious, and innovative students. My goal is to provide tech experiences to our students to promote 21st-century learning and skills with STEAM.

My students are very innovative and creative individuals.

Students in our district often have limited technology experience. My students will begin to discover and cultivate their creativity as they begin to apply their unique gifts and talents and allow them to become the innovators and global leaders of tomorrow with the stories they will be able to create and tell.

My Project

For the past three years, I have been teaching my students Financial Literacy through board games and interactive play. The game that has been the most engaging and has the most effect on their understanding and learning of the Global Market has been The Settlers of Catan. The value of specific resources changes as players look to develop their settlements from roads into cities. It’s also important to use the resources that you have, how to control your Flow of Goods and what your Medium of Exchange will be, just like in a Global Market.

These connections just scratch the surface of the potential this game holds.

Interesting opportunities could be setting up the map to reflect real-life scenarios, or playing multiple games followed by a discussion about how the different locations and relationships between resource placement on the map impacted how the games were played. The geographic thinking is limitless, along with the fun. While I was able to get a set of four Catan games, my classes have expanded and we need to expand our supplies with not only another set, but also extra cards for my students to play.

Settlers of Catan has been a real game changer if you pardon the pun with my students and in my classroom. I want to give my students every opportunity and having these expansion sets for our classroom will take their learning to a new level.

Dr. Read
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Catan 5th Edition Board Game with Catan 5-6 Player Extension Bundle | Includes Convenient Drawstring Storage Bag with Game Players Logo Printed • Amazon Business $68.88 1 $68.88
Card Tray/Box Organizer for Settlers of Catan • Amazon Business $14.95 4 $59.80
Catan Accessory: Base Game Cards • Amazon Business $11.96 1 $11.96

Materials cost

$140.64

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.11

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$172.75

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$30.49

Total project goal

$203.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$203.24

3 Donors

-$126.00

Donations toward project cost

-$107.10

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.90

Matching donations from our partners

-$77.24

Match offers toward project cost

-$65.65

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.59

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$0.00

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