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A Dollar for Penny

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students demonstrate different ways to make a dollar. In this consumer math lesson, students read the book A Dollar for Penny and identify the value of each coin. Students determine combinations of coins that can make up a dollar.
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Penny Panda's Sticker Store

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice counting money using nickels, dimes, and quarters. They review the value of nickels, dimes and quarters. They explore Penny Panda's Sticker Store, and talk a little about what the object of the activity is (save...
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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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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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Shopping

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars demonstrate how to count money through a simulated shopping experience. In this consumer math lesson, students read the book Just Shopping With Mom and count play money to illustrate how much the items in the book cost.
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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. For 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
Young scholars plan a trip.  For 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...
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Coin Motion

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize coins and their values and count coin groups. They play a game where when music is turned on they skip, hop, jog and when it is turned off, they go to a spot in the room marked with the same coin or value as is in...
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National and Regional Identity

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students examine state quarters to identify symbols that represent national and regional identity. They discuss the process used to determine what is put on the quarter. They review colonial money, and euros to look for cultural images.
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Lesson Four - Making Change

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice making change. In this money lesson, students complete worksheets in which they find the amount of change they would receive from a dollar bill amount. Students go online and play games on this same concept. 
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Mental Math for Adding Decimals

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders work in groups to practice adding decimals. In this adding decimals lesson, 5th graders call out different money amounts to each other and mentally add the coins called out. Students take turns calling out and adding the...
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Estimation

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice using money. In this estimation instructional activity, 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...
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It's On Sale

For Teachers 1st
First graders read the book The Great Pet Sale to learn about economics and advertisements. In this economics lesson plan, 1st graders read the book The Great Pet Sale and define related vocabulary words. Students compare prices to find...
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Less Than Zero

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students keep track of money. In this money management lesson, students read Less Than Zero by Stuart J. Murphy and manipulate a number line to keep track of spending and borrowing in the story.
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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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Uncle Jed's Barbershop

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine productive resources. For this economics lesson, 4th graders read a book about a man who saves money to buy his own barbershop. After reading, students get into groups to play a game to learn about savings.
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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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Right on the Money

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students watch a video about different ways of making the same amounts of money and view a clip about the Denver Mint to discover how coins are made. They complete a Web activity on each coin's worth and find out facts about the penny.
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Money

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners complete online activities to identify coins and their given values. In this coin values activity, students identify pictures of various coins and write their values. Learners may then complete other activities based on a...
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Money Skills (Using Coins)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students pretend to purchase items at their class store using coins. At the store, they are to state the amount of the item they want to buy by reading the label. They give the cashier the correct amount of coins and are given a mark on...
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What is Money? Learn the Role of Money in a Free Market System

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners view a seashell and listen as the teacher explains that these were sometimes used as money. They listen as the teacher lectures on medium of exchange, barter, and commodity. Students determine the number of chickens it would...
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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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Money Subtraction: 10 Cent Increments - Euros

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this subtracting money worksheet, students solve the money subtraction problems by subtracting the numbers in increments of ten cents. Students subtract to solve twenty money problems.

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