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Curated OER

Adding and Subtracting Money

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate U.S. currency by pretending to buy food.  In this money lesson, students discover the vocabulary and value for each U.S. coin, then add the amounts in dollars and cents of food items they wish to purchase.  Students...
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Curated OER

Super Sale Store Game

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students help their teacher set up their classroom in the form of a store. Using construction paper, they make different amounts of paper money and items to buy. To end the lesson, they play the game to practice making change and adding...
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Curated OER

Money: Count Pennies, Save a Dollar

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students determine how to make the largest sum of money using the least amount of coins. In this mixed currency lesson, students listen to a reading of If You Made a Million by David M. Schwartz before participating in money counting...
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Curated OER

Money Makes the Fair-Go-Round

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars explore the value of money. In this money lesson, students investigating combining amounts of money and making change. Young scholars count sets of money and make fair trades. Resources are provided.
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Curated OER

My Money

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify and interpret the relationships between various components of currency, discusses the uses of money, and provides advanced lessons on making change. They also identify the various ways that money is used and how to use...
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Curated OER

We're In The Money

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learn about the history of money, as well as counterfeiting, budget vocabulary, and money management. Much of the lesson requires a Nova video; however, it also includes numerous worksheets that may be useful even without the video....
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Curated OER

Counting Change and Changing Coins

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders demonstrate how to count change. In this consumer math lesson, 2nd graders read the book The Penny Pot and identify the value of coins. Students complete a worksheet to practice counting coins.
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Curated OER

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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University of Arkansas

Individuals Making a Difference

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The focus of this, the third in a five-activity unit study of human rights, is on individuals who made a difference. Billy Bowlegs, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, Fannie Lou Hamer, Michi Weglyn, and Yuri Koshiyama are some of the people class members...
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Curated OER

Give Me the Money

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars view a money transaction on video and identify the steps involved in making a purchase and calculating change. They write out original money math problems and exchange them with classmates.
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Curated OER

"Money In My Pocket"

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders assess a brief history of money, the use of money, working with money as well as adding and subtracting with money and how to spend money wisely with responsibility. In addition, they discuss how everything belongs to God...
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Curated OER

Spending - Maintaining the skill of money

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice making change with money. In this subtraction lesson, 3rd graders watch a video about money. Students investigate what it means to earn money, spend it, and find their change.
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Curated OER

"Let's Make Some Money"

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students complete a project about economics, supply, and advertising. In this advertising lesson plan, students discuss how money is made, entrepreneurs, and advertising. They make their own business with toys to sell to Kindergartners.
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Curated OER

Money, Commercial Banking, and Interest

For Teachers 12th
Stdents explore the operation of the commercial banking system and the mechanics of money creation through the lending process. They investigate various interest rates to develop the relationship between interest rates and risk and...
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Curated OER

Revolutionary Money

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Examine paper money from the American revolution! Historians study the paper bills and discuss the history of money. How has money changed over the times? Activities are included. 
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Curated OER

Common Sense Cookie Shop

For Teachers 1st
First graders shop for a bag of cookies using toy money. In teams, they choose which variety to buy and decides which bills and coins are necessary to buy the bag of cookies and a cashier makes change. They tally the cookies purchased...
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Curated OER

Cool Cookie Math

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify the value of coins and make change from a dollar using different amounts. They are given story problems and use a fake shop in which they can buy things in which they have to determine how much change they would...
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Curated OER

George's Place

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Here is another in the interesting series of lessons that uses money as a learning tool. This one is especially clever! During the lesson, pupils pretend they are eating at "George's Place" diner. Small groups are given one bag of play...
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Federal Reserve Bank

The Fed Is Protecting Your Money

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
A dollar bill, a check, a credit card, and... a cow? What exactly are the various forms of payment that exist today? Your learners will identify the three functions of money in this lesson. In addition, they will discover the most common...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Financial Fables: Shopping Wisely with Olivia Owl

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Cover two subjects with one lesson! First, dive into English language arts; read an eBook, answer comprehension questions, and complete a cause and effect chart about the financial fable, Shopping Wisely with Olivia Owl. Then, take a...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Game of SKUNK

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Do I stand or do I sit? The class plays a dice game where they must decide to either continue to stand and play or sit down and keep their points. After the game, groups discuss individuals' strategies and see connections to the...
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Curated OER

Changing the Currency of Different Countries

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore changing currency. In this international math instructional activity, 7th graders will write and solve 2-step equations in order to convert currencies between nations. Students will research prices of items and...
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Curated OER

Money and Banking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the role of government in the economy market. In this economics activity, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of what they are trying to...
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Curated OER

Double Your Money

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
What a creative way to delve into adding large numbers! After listening to a story called The King's Chessboard, learners estimate how much money they would have each day following instructions based on doubling and exponentially...