In Pskov, young readers learned the history of money in the lesson of financial literacy

In the Pskov Library – Children’s Reading Center, within the framework of the Scrooge McDuck School project, another financial literacy lesson for younger schoolchildren was held. The topic of the lesson is “How did money come and what it is.”.

Children learned about the evolution of monetary relations: from ancient settlements using seashells and dried fish to modern plastic cards. Librarians told schoolchildren about the history of money in Ancient Russia and the Russian Empire, explained the difference between hryvnia and dirham, showed gold and silver. Young participants learned which coin is considered the most beautiful and which is the smallest, and what money looks like in Belarus.

Special attention was paid to practical skills: students learned to distinguish real banknotes from fake ones and watched a cartoon about security when using bank cards.