VOCABULARY

Anchorage:〔船的〕停泊处，锚地
A place where ships can anchor.

husky sleigh:哈士奇雪橇

furious:猛烈的，强烈的，激烈的
Done with a lot of energy, effort, or speed.

spray:喷，喷洒
To force liquid out of a container so that it comes
out in a stream of very small drops and covers an
area.
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Read about why people love gold.

Gold, Gold, Gold

Gold is a shiny yellow metal. It is
dug out of the Earth. It is the most
useful and most prized of all metals.

Gold is soft and easy to work with.

Gold can be melted into different shapes.
Gold can be mixed with other metals.

USES FOR GOLD

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coins jewelry skyscraper

glass
gold bars gold leaf on space
painting shuttle
bullion gold leaf on food gold teeth

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 Gold is so useful it was once used
for barter. Barter is when you give
something you have for something
you want.

People first used gold as a type of

money 6,000 years ago. It is easy to
carry and lasts a long time. There is
not a lot of gold, which makes gold
worth a lot to people, too.

A long time ago, payments were

made using pieces of gold. The
first gold coins were made for
King Croesus.

statue

People have
always prized gold
objects such as this
Egyptian statue.
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 Gold can be sold in
units of weight, such
as ounces or grams.

Gold coins
were used as
money until the
early 1900s.
After that, people
began to use
paper money.

Today, people
collect gold. They do not use it as
money. They buy gold that has been
shaped into bars. They buy gold
coins. Some people use gold coins to
celebrate special events.

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What are the ways that people have used gold to
get what they need? ESSENTIAL QUESTION
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Why do people love gold objects? Use what you

learned from The Golden Goose and Gold, Gold,
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