What's In Your Closet - The Value of Clothing by Leah Bratcher
This lesson is an introduction to clothing and the amount of clothes we have today compared to what people used to have. It's also to get students to think about the amount of money that is spent on clothes - to a close approximation - but know that many students will underestimate the amount of money spent on clothes because many of them do not pay for their own clothes. Hopefully a dialogue will happen between student and parent about the money spent on all clothes purchased in the house for all family members.
There will be a homework assignment for students to go home and actually take inventory on what clothes they have in their homes.
The assignments will help students gain some introspect into looking closer into what's in our closets, what and where you shop for clothing, and how we value clothes overall.