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Bottomless Mug

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How much coffee can you actually drink? An intriguing lesson has learners consider an advertisement for a bottomless mug of coffee. While considering the price of the mug, they analyze different scenarios to determine the cost-saving...
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Curated OER

How to Achieve Your Financial Goals

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore economics by creating a budget. In this financial goal setting lesson, students investigate their use of time by completing a worksheet. Students identify financial goals they would like to achieve in the next several...
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Curated OER

Making Good Money Choices

For Teachers K - 4th
Student explore an economic-decision making model to decide where to donate money they have collected. In this philanthropic money lesson, students develop a plan for raising money and then decide how to best spend it for the most...
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Where Does All the Money Go?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of uses for money. In this uses for money lesson, students discuss ways in which money can be utilized such as spending, saving, investing, donating, etc. Students discuss the differences between needs and...
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Intel

How Can I Relate?

For Students 6th - 8th
How much is a million? This unit has a set of lessons investigating large numbers on the order of millions and billions. A culminating project has groups creating a slideshow and poster about large numbers found in the school and/or...
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Mental Money

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students access prior knowledge to round numbers and add decimals. In this mental math lesson, students share the book Betcha and calculate estimates for three jars based on the book. Students calculate money answers based on coins...
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Curated OER

Changing the Different Currency of Different Countries

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students change the money used in different countries into our currency. In this algebra lesson, students rewrite word problems using variables and inequalities. They label each unknown with a letter and identify the steps needed to...
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Money Matters to Me

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore economics by identifying financial goals. In this consumerism instructional activity, 4th graders discuss money matters and how to conserve an income when they get older in order to achieve their goals. Students...
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Curated OER

Coin Count & Classification

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students make a prediction about how 100 pennies sort by decade or year and then test their predictions. They organize their data using a graph that is imbedded in this lesson.
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Compare Money Amounts

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this comparing money amounts practice worksheet, learners sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems that require them to compare money amounts.
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Curated OER

Using Credit: Not for a Billion Gazillion Dollars

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the concept of credit. In this consumer education lesson, the teacher uses the book Not for a Billion Gazillion Dollars to lead the class in a discussion about credit, debit, and income. Students then analyze their...
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The Big Buck Adventure

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners practice making change, and adding and subtracting money. In this money lesson, students listen to a reading of The Big Buck Adventure by Shelley Gil. They access teacher assigned web sites to practice making change, adding...
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Money Smart Choices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students make choices regarding money management. In this personal finance lesson, students explore budgets, incomes, and expenses as they learn vocabulary regarding personal finance and consider how to create personal budgets.
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Money Smart children

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students elementary financial vocabulary words: spend, save, invest and donate. In this finance lesson plan, students respond to the story "Sam and the Lucky Moon." Students describe the concepts of wants and needs, resources, scarcity,...
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Curated OER

Band Tour Across America

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students plan the trip of a band across America. In this money planning lesson, students create a budget for the band using excel basic functions. They manage the band and its budget and relate the tour to future budgeting needs of the...
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Curated OER

Growing Money

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders sell plants. In this business lesson students propagate plants from cuttings. Students create a business to sell the plants they grow.
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Profit From Pumpkins

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders cut open a pumpkin. In this math instructional activity, 3rd graders complete the worksheet "From Seed to Pumpkin" and then clean out their pumpkins to see how many seeds are in it.
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Curated OER

Using the Grocery Store as an Instructional Place for Math

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The grocery store can be a great place to reinforce math lessons and get new activity ideas.
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Curated OER

Three for the Money: The Degree/Diameter Problem

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the degree, diameter, planarity, and size of graphs.  In this degree, diameter, planarity, and size of graphs lesson, students try to construct a graph with more than 12 vertices that satisfy all other requirements. ...
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Curated OER

Touch Math

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Using the touch math system, learners engage in activities to practice adding numbers. While the lesson is laid out in an explicit manner, there isn't a guide explaining the touch math system.
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NTTI

Putting Together Ten

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Groups explore sets of 10 items in two varieties (i.e. 3 white buttons and 7 black ones, or 5 bears and 5 bunnies). They brainstorm about their objects, write math sentences to represent what they have, and report their discoveries to...
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Credit Reports—and You Thought Your Report Card Was Important

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Get the facts about credit and take a close look at what factors into a consumer credit report with this fantastic lesson. Your pupils will read informational texts, read sample financial documents, and discuss the advantages and...
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California Academy of Science

Greening Your Middle School

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Middle schoolers redesign their school to make it more energy efficient, and create a model of their design. Learners get together in groups of 5, and they take on the task of making their school more energy efficient. To do this, they...
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Curated OER

Decimal Notation for Pennies and Dimes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write money in decimal form. In this money lesson, 2nd graders discuss the value of coins and find the placement of the decimal in writing the amount. They find the fractional parts of coins in a dollar. 

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