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Children from an early age show interest in the world around them. They ask probing questions which are an expression of surprise and attempts to explain processes and phenomena. To answer the question of how the school system responds to children’s curiosity and naive concepts of reality with its curricular offer, I focused on the concept of poverty as something inscribed in everyday life, and even experienced by some pupils. Preliminary research conducted among pupils in grades 1–3 of primary school were an incentive for the children to define the concept of poverty and to formulate possible solutions to the problem. The results indicate the existence of informal concepts of poverty, its causes and strategies for the prevention of its occurrence, but at the same time a lack of interest in schools in the development of this kind of knowledge.