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Council for Economic Education

Paper Money of the Sung, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Why did the Chinese develop paper money? They were the first society to use paper currency. Learners consider why paper money was more convenient than other mechanisms of trade using a helpful lesson plan, which includes a graphic...
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Right on the Money

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students are introduced to coins and bills in American currency. After watching a video, they practice making the same amount of money out of different combinations of coins and bills. Using the internet, they discover how much each...
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The Role of Money

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the role of money. In this money lesson, 4th graders read a chapter from Judy Blume's, Double Fudge, to see how money is made and how people make money. They finish a worksheet, and play a game about money.
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Money, Money, Honey Bunny!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners read a story about spending and saving money and talk about the difference between goods and services. In this money lesson plan, students also play a matching game to review the story and practice rhyming words from the story.
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Characteristics and Functions of Money

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss the function and characteristics of money. In this financial education lesson plan, 4th graders read the book The Go-Around Dollar by Johnston Adams. This book sparks a conversation on how money is used and the...
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Undercurrents Of Currency

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the currencies used by different countries, and explore the principles of currency trading by exchanging currencies at current market rates. They, in groups, access websites which give them current rates.
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Thinking About Money

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students evaluate various approaches to spending money.For this spending money literacy lesson, students broaden their financial goals by reading "Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday" and "A Chair for My Mother."Students use a Venn...
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Money Versus Trade

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discover the importance of exchanging money in a market. In this economics lesson, students discover natural resources and how one can barter with those resources. In addition, students complete worksheets and discover the...
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Money Conversations

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students participate in a conversation about money. In this money conversion lesson students discuss money in a variety of related topics. They respond to a conversation between a bank manager and a poor parent as well as decide what...
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Money Subtraction (J); Increments of 10 Cents

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this money subtraction worksheet, students subtract money amounts that include dollars and cents. Students subtract money amounts that end in an increment of 10 cents.
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What is Currency?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students study the history of currency and the monetary system of historic Akan people, who lived on the Atlantic coast of Africa. This outstanding series of lessons is multi-disciplinary and contains many activities for different...
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Money Subtraction (D); Increments of 5 Cents

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this money subtraction worksheet, learners subtract numbers that are in dollars and cents. Students do 20 problems that have them subtract using decimals since they are subtracting money amounts. These are in increments of 5 cents.
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Money Subtraction

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this money subtraction worksheet, learners subtract four digit numbers that represent dollars and cents. Students subtract 20 problems of four digit numbers.
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Coins

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this coins worksheet, students circle the coins that match the amount underneath them. Students match the amount of coins for 12 problems.
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Money and Credit: Making Good Decisions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers participate in activities that teach them how to manage money. In this managing money lesson plan, students set long and short term goals for economic success by having discussions, identifying benefits of saving, and...
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The Berenstain Bears Trouble with Money

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students will explore good and services, income and saving listening to the story The B. Bears Trouble With Money.  For this early economic lesson, students discuss what it means to earn money doing services and save money to buy goods. ...
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Money - counting dimes, nickels, and cents

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this counting dimes, nickels, and pennies learning exercise, students review pictures of coins with their values, count money and write the total amounts, and use real money to show given amounts of change. Students write twelve answers.
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Money

For Students 4th - 5th
For this money worksheet, students analyze a table that tells how many of each marked item in a store four people purchased. Students look at the prices of the items and calculate the total spent by each person.
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Money Subtraction

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this money subtraction worksheet, students have to subtract different amounts of money where there is a dollar and cent value. Students have 20 problems to complete in this subtraction worksheet.
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What Would You Spend Your Money On?: Graph

For Students 1st
In this bar graph worksheet, students will ask their classmates which object they would spend their money on: a toy, candy or a book. Then students will record the responses to complete the graph.
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Making Good Money Choices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers determine how to spend donated money. In this money choices lesson, students explore the needs of the community. They determine the best use of donated funds for a good cause or charity. High schoolers play a bingo game to...
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K12 Reader

Money, Money, Everywhere!

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars, dollars. Here's a comprehension worksheet that asks young readers to respond to a series of questions based on a passage about money.
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Federal Reserve Bank

History of Money and Banking in the U.S.

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Why was there a lack of confidence in the money and banking system of the early United States government? What historical events led to the establishment of the Federal Reserve System? Here you'll find reading materials and worksheets to...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Coins in a Circular Pattern

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
What starts as a basic question of division and remainders quickly turns abstract in this question of related ratios and radii. The class works to surround a central coin with coins of the same and different values, then develops a...

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