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How Much is that Name?
Learners explore money counting. In this money problem solving lesson, students calculate how much money their name is "worth" using the corresponding alphabet letters which have been assigned a coin value.
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Our Town Store
Students purchase items in their classroom store. In this money lesson students create a classroom store. The students have a given amount of money and have to decide if they have enough to purchase the items that they would like to.
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Adding Pennies, Nickels and Dimes
Students add pennies, nickels and dimes and organize the coins to display a variety of price values from real life examples. They discuss the importance of money in the day-to-day world.
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Saving Makes Cents
Students identify ways families save money. In this financial lesson plan, students read the book A Chair for My Mother and discuss ways to save money. Students identify coin values and practice counting money.
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Spending
Student explore the value of money. In this addition and subtraction lesson, 2nd graders earn "money" for classroom jobs and spend it in the classroom. Students practice how to add prices and calculate change. This lesson incorporates...
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Making $ents
Second graders complete several activities that give them opportunities to practice and model strategies that help them count money. They read The Penny Pot storybook; they play a trading game with various coins. They participate in a...
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How Much for Your Name?
Students create different coin combinations for a single amount, practice counting, demonstrate their knowledge of the value of coins and demonstrate their knowledge of coin combinations.
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More Dimes
In this counting money worksheet, learners count the money shown in a picture of assorted coins. Students write the correct amount, then determine how much money there will be if a specific number of dimes is added to that amount.
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Get Ready, Get Set, Squeeze!
Students explore coin value and count coin combinations. For this money counting and social studies lesson, students read The Coin Counting Book by Rozanne Lanczak Williams and practice counting money and making change for a lemonade...
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Made Round To Go Round
In this activity pupils investigate what it would cost to furnish one room of their choice by shopping on the Internet. Both Australian and American dollars are to be given for each item to demonstrate the difference between two...
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Worth Its Weight in Gold
In this comparing weights learning exercise, 2nd graders compare and contrast the weight of three different coins and then calculate the answers to eight questions.
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Fashion Cents
In this using a math table activity, learners solve 2 problems in which a table is made to determine the total cost of designing lunch boxes and shirts.
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Cents Sense
In this counting money worksheet, students solve 4 problems in which students are matched with their labeled piggy banks. Students read the clues and match the banks to each person.
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Kermit the Hermit
Learners consider money management. In this personal finances lesson, students read Kermit the Hermit and discuss what was done with the unexpected money that Kermit received. Learners examine methods of saving money and...
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What Is the Amount?
In this counting money worksheet, students solve 8 problems in which picture symbols inside a robot's purse are decoded. Students count how much money is inside each purse. All sums are under one dollar.
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The Price is Right
In this coin worksheet, students circle the coins to show the price of each of the 4 objects on the page. The prices are all under one dollar.
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Counting Pennies
In this penny counting instructional activity, students solve 4 basic subtraction questions using numbers between 1 and 10. They count how many pennies were in the piggy bank to start with. They then count how many pennies were left...
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File Card Bridges
Young scholars make different variations of file card bridges and predict how much weight it will hold. In this file card bridges lesson plan, students put file cards between books in different ways and predict how many pennies it will...
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Solving Problems
Second graders become familiar with need strategies for computation of money problems and estimating sums. In this computation lesson, 2nd graders solve real life problems to understand estimation and money problems.
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Budget Hungry
Young elementary students create an expense budget for a meal at a restaurant. They learn the basic communication and etiquette skills needed to successfully go on a field trip to implement the budgets they created.
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Purchasing Power
Students participate in a lemonade sale and record their sales in a journal. In this fundraising lesson plan, students donate money they have raised from a lemonade sale and make a plan for how the money should be spent.
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International Festival: France
Students explore French culture. In this cross-curriculum social studies lesson, students listen to Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans and identify words and landmarks associated with France. Students pronounce several phrases in French,...
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Can You Measure Up?
Learners use technology to visit websites where they play interactive games, gather information to complete activity sheets, and complete online projects. One instructional activity using 'Inch By Inch' by Leo Lionni, takes students to...
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Teddy Bears Everywhere
Learners explore the history of teddy bears. In this comprehension lesson, students bring a bear of their own to compare and contrast with their classmates. Learners read book and discuss the events and draw pictures of the scenes.