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I Have No Money, Would You Take Wampum

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students engage in a discussion about their experiences with goods, services, and money.  In this bartering lesson, students read The Wampum Bird story and brainstorm their personal experiences with economics.   
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"Let's Make Some Money"

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students complete a project about economics, supply, and advertising. In this advertising instructional activity, students discuss how money is made, entrepreneurs, and advertising. They make their own business with toys to sell to...
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Math and Money

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore personal finance.  In this middle school mathematics lesson plan, students investigate banking, income tax, and the cost of living.  The lesson plan includes two bonus lessons on graphing their personal spending habits...
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How much money can you earn?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders survey how to manage money and the importance of it. Students summarize that each day they have the opportunity to earn or lose money. Students provides many situations to present ways of paying bills and money management.
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Money Math: Lessons for Life

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students explore money as it applies to salary, paychecks, and taxes. In this essential mathematics activity, students explore how math is used in various careers, how income takes are calculated and other important life lessons in math.
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Money and Banking

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students investigate percents and interest. In this algebra lesson, students invest money in a bank account and calculate the interest rate they receive over time. They convert percents to decimals and solve problems using percents.
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Show Me The Money!

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students select which bank would best meet their needs. In this lesson on personal banking, students write a summary stating which bank and bank accounts best suit their own needs.
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Money Matters: The Importance of Global Cooperation

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students prepare for a visit to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). For this lesson students create a concept map of money. They discuss the goals of the IMF. Students research countries currently changing into market economies. After...
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The Great Depression: Lesson 1

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recognize how the causes of the Great Depression affected people and their jobs. In this Great Depression lesson, students understand that most of the time news only came from newspapers. Students write a letter as though they...
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Money Matters: The Importance of Global Cooperation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In this global economics lesson, students prepare for a field trip to the IMF as they examine the history of the IMF and their role in global trade.
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Band Tour Across America

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars plan the trip of a band across America. In this money planning instructional activity, students create a budget for the band using excel basic functions. They manage the band and its budget and relate the tour to future...
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More! A Lesson on Comparing

For Teachers K
Students practice counting and comparing objects.  In this math lesson, students view a Count on It! episode. Students examine the value of what they are counting.  Students estimate number in groups of items.  Students determine which...
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Three for the Money: The Degree/Diameter Problem

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the degree, diameter, planarity, and size of graphs.  For 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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A Trip to Colonial Virginia

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students consider prices while planning a trip to Colonial Virginia. For this budgeting lesson, students construct an itinerary of events for a vacation. Students are responsible for working within the approved budget.
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Bowl of Love Lesson 6

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the concept of having a fundraiser to benefit a local soup kitchen. In this fundraising service project lesson, students participate in different activities that explain the history and making of clay pottery, service...
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ESL/EFL Lesson Plan - Longevity Blood Tests - By Sean Banville

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students read the article Blood Test Predicts When You'll Die. In this reading comprehension lesson, students read the article and complete a variety of activities. They work individually and in pairs to complete questions dealing with...
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The Fed is Protecting Your Money

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students are introduced to the role of the Federal Reserve. In groups, they discover the three functions of money and discuss the most common forms of payment used in society today. They develop a survery to give to the local community...
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Money Values Worksheet Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students determine how many dollars, quarters, nickels, dimes, and pennies equals a given dollar amount.
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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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Energy: The Universal Currency

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Science stars examine the concept of energy by thinking about everyday situations. The lesson plan is incohesive. It lists goals for the student, but doesn't address all of them in the content. The best use of this resource would simply...
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Family Money Matters: Exploring the World of Economics

For Teachers Pre-K
Students become familiar with vocabulary related to spending money.  In this economics activity, students participate in activities to learn about spending money and budgets.
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Geometric Shape Cakes

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students become problem solvers and communicate geometrical ideas. In this geometrical shapes lesson, students make a cake template from geometrical shapes.
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Money Matters: Why It Pays to Be Financially Responsible

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What does it mean to be financially responsible? Pupils begin to develop the building blocks of strong financial decision making by reviewing how their past purchases are examples of cost comparing, cost-benefit analysis, and budgeting.
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So How Much Are You Really Paying for that Loan?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Loans are rarely provided without a cost. Pupils evaluate the high cost of using a payday loan or payday advance through discussion and worksheets, and finally work in groups to develop short public service announcements that outline the...

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