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Bowland

Explorers – Patrol Services

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Far out — plan a trip to space! Aspiring mathematicians steer a space vehicle through an asteroid field, calculate currency exchanges to buy provisions, and determine placement of charges to blow up asteroids. Along the way, they learn...
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Mascil Project

Circular Pave-Stones Backyard

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Pack the lesson into your plans. Young mathematicians learn about packing and optimization with the context of circular paving stones. They use coins to model the paving stones, and then apply knowledge of circles and polygons to...
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Carolina K-12

Personal Financial Literacy: Saving and Investing

For Teachers 10th Standards
When should you save, and when should you invest? In considering this question, your class members will also learn about the time value of money, inflation, compounded interest, and income/growth investments. The resource also outlines...
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Curated OER

Pocket Change

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars practice identifying coins and their values. For this money identification lesson, students play a game, where they toll a coin, determine the value, and compare totals to win.
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Texas Commission on the Arts

The Quarter Fold

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Little ones identify the US quarter and explore the concept of one-fourth or one-quarter. Using real coins or coin manipulatives, they divide a square piece of paper into quarters, discuss halves and quarters, and create a design that...
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Shopping for Candy

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore counting money. In this money counting and gingerbread house construction lesson, students use a calculator to determine how much and what type of candy they can buy given 25 cents.  Students construct gingerbread houses...
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Curated OER

The Price Is Right - TV Game Show

For Teachers K - 5th
Students play variation of TV game show "The Price is Right" to identify coins and their values.
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Curated OER

Number Cents

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify the value of coins. In this number cents lesson, students use coins to create sets of equivalent values. They create patterns with coins and write the value of coins in two forms. Students count the value of given coins.
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Spending Plans

For Teachers K
Students explore the concept of dividing their money into categories, namely "save," "spend," and "share." They engage in activities that help them explain that money is limited in quantity and must be divided for different purposes.
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Curated OER

Quarters, Dimes, and Nickels

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders add and subtract coins, decide which coins to use to purchase an item, and compare values of sets of coins.
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Curated OER

Estimation

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice using money. For this estimation lesson, 3rd graders show their ability to figure out the cost of lunch. Students then set up a "store" and students choose the products and estmate the cost. Students visit websites...
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Curated OER

Battle of "The Cents"

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners explore money. In this counting money lesson, students play a card game using the rules of "War." Learners turn over cards, determine the money value represented, and the student with the highest value keeps the cards.
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Curated OER

What's on Sale?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore sale items.  In this money and percent math instructional activity, students work in groups to locate food ads in the newspaper.  Young scholars identify sales and calculate final prices using percentage...
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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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Having a Savings Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover the importance of saving and spending. In this finance instructional activity, students read the book Kermit the Hermit and discuss the differences between needs and wants. The students complete worksheets concerning...
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Curated OER

Deena's Lucky Penny

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discover the coin denominations of U.S. Currency.  In this money instructional activity, students read the book Deena's Lucky Penny, then complete a coin matching activity using the Internet.  Students also read Shel...
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Going Shopping

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students investigate the value of money. In this money instructional activity, students simulate going shopping in their classrooms for various objects. Students use play money to pay for the objects.
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Shopping for Savings

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders calculate savings and identify the best value items from a list of products. They rotate through five studying stations, completing various math activities involving calculators and solving problems related to shopping...
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Short-Term and Long-Term Savings Goals

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discover how saving money can apply to their lives. In this personal finance lesson, 5th graders use the book The Leaves in October, as a conversation starter on income, savings and setting goals. Students explore the...
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Saturday Sancocho

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students barter with each other in order to get ingredients to make chicken sancocho. In this trading lesson plan, students read a story about a family in Central or South America who have to barter to get their needs. Then students try...
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Touring Delmarva

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners plan a trip.  In this trip planning lesson, students use a map to find where they would like to visit with a pretend family of 4. They get a specific amount of money and time and need to decide where they will stay and what they...
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The Great Cookie Company

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders implement real life application of money, problem solving, economics, and consumer awareness.  In this three week economics unit, 4th graders operate a business, write checks, balance accounts, and market their product. 
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Money and Banking

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

For Teachers K
Students examine ten pennies on their mats as they tell what they know about them. They follow verbal directions that are given by the teacher to count out specified numbers of pennies. They repeat the activity with dimes and talk about...

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