Events › Ohio Works: Business Beginnings

Celebrate February's theme of America 250 and learn about local business beginnings with the Cincinnati Museum Center. 

Investigate soap and candle making, meatpacking, furniture making and brewing in 19th-century Cincinnati. Work in small groups to review period business records, illustrations and historical artifacts. Learn how productive resources were used in these industries and how they impacted production and consumption. Get to know economic terms such as opportunity cost, scarcity, profit and loss. 

Strong reading skills are necessary for this program. Recommended for Grades 3-6.