Financial education programme adapted to Middle School.
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Contains plans of activities for:
Key words: money, buy, manage, save, choose, value and consumption priorities.
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Museum, mirror mine
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Do you trust in paper? The first Portuguese paper money was a Bill. But what was it for? We will find out how the two Bordalo Pinheiro brothers managed to put a factory into action and then analyse the most beautiful of shares – that of the Earthenware Factory in Caldas da Rainha. All this as well as a challenge for those with a quick eye: what features constitute a note and can you find the difference between the features of five notes?
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Money odyssey
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The students are invited to explore the Museum and discover the evolution of money, from the beginning of paper money, in China, to the single currency, the Euro. There is particular focus on “a nearly-perfect fraud” – the startling story of a swindler called Artur Virgílio Alves Reis who, from 1925, led politicians, soldiers, rolex replica journalists and the average man in the street to wonder just how such daring could have been possible. For a year, he carried out one of the most famous frauds in the history of Europe, known as the Banknote Case. How did he do it and how did this true story end? |
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Heroes of the air
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The theme is money and air transport, the aim is to discover money through two Portuguese heroes: Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral. Their story will be told using various notes. We will analyse the 20-Escudo note, the 100-Escudo from the Nacional Ultramarino Bank and we will see a film made from real images that reconstitute the first flight from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro. We will also give interesting details, such as Gago Coutinho’s invention (the bubble sextant), the contents of Gago Coutinho’s luggage, the setbacks they encountered during the trip, the communication used and their glorious arrival in Rio de Janeiro, where both were acclaimed as heroes by an enormous crowd! |
Heroes of the sea
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The theme is money and sea transport. The aim is to discover money through the feats of the Portuguese in the age of the discoveries. A thrilling journey told through the 100 thousand Reis notes of 1909, 100 Escudos of 1920 and 500 Escudos of 1922. These will help us discover the voyage of Pedro Álvares Cabral and Pêro Vaz de Caminha to Brazil and the discovery of the maritime route to India by Vasco da Gama, during which he was almost fooled by a Mozambique sailor who intended to give him up to Moorish pirates! |
