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Nothing But Net: Understanding Your Take Home Pay

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Introduce your young adults to the important understanding that the money they receive from their paychecks is a net amount as a result of deductions from taxes. Other topics covered include federal, state, Medicare and social security...
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Visa

Make It Happen: Saving for a Rainy Day

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Every little penny counts, especially when it comes to saving for emergencies or long-term goals. Pupils evaluate different saving and investment strategies, such as a CD or money market account, through worksheets and by researching...
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Curated OER

Spending Money

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders become familiar with the ways people exchange goods and services. In this spending money lesson, 4th graders listen to a chapter from Henry and Beezus and record Henry's earnings and money spent. Students use correct...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Sheep in a Shop

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
What do you think sheep might be able to barter when they don't have quite enough to buy a gift? Your pupils can find out this and much more during this lesson about Sheep in a Shop, spending, saving, and bartering.
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Curated OER

Trading Faces

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
The game of "Trading Faces" is the focus of this clever math lesson plan. Your mathematicians use addition to determine the values of different coin combinations by playing the game. Everything you need to implement the game, and the...
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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

Saturday Sancocho

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
What does stew have to do with bartering? Learners will find out how by reading the story Saturday Sancocho, discussing the text, participating in a bartering activity in class (once with goods only and once with money), and discussing...
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Curated OER

Cutting Costs With Coupons.

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners clip coupons for food items, create a menu using those items, and add up the total savings. They correctly calculate the total amount of money that would be saved if they used the coupons.
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Curated OER

Four Famous Faces

For Teachers K - 1st
Each one of our quarters is embellished with a famous face or image representing the state it came from. This lesson plan uses South Dakota's state quarter to get kids thinking about monetary value, what the president of the United...
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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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Curated OER

What's in Your Piggy Bank?

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Fill up your piggy banks! First graders find different ways to fill up cute piggy banks with 30 cents. Will they use two dimes and two nickels? Or a quarter and five pennies? Use this activity with groups to reinforce your money math...
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Number and Operation: All About Monday - Does it Pay?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Solve real-world financial math problems. High schoolers will work through a series of problems as they look at credit card interest, bill payment, and other real-world personal money matters.
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DK Publishing

Subtracting Decimals

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Working with decimals or money math? Give your class some practice with subtraction and place value. After solving 18 subtraction problems with decimals and money units, fourth graders work on two word problems. A great homework...
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Curated OER

In Great Demand

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Focusing on supply and demand, learners discuss economic principles in this lesson related to Wisconsin. After discussing supply and demand, learners answer questions related to a pizza parlor. They talk about profit, as well as other...
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The Pickle Patch Bathtub

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
What do your pupils want to save up their money for? Based around the book The Pickle Patch Bathtub, this lesson covers opportunity cost, saving, and spending. Learners participate in a discussion and practice making their own savings...
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Curated OER

Math Cross, Puzzle #26

For Students 4th - 7th
Here is a measurement, money and time activity which invites learners to solve twenty-eight math problems utilizing addition, subtraction and multiplication strategies to complete a math crossword puzzle.
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Deal or No Deal?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Using a game format, learners engage in an activity called Deal or No Deal. Taking real life scenarios involving items for sale, such as cereal boxes three for $5.00, they determine whether an example is a deal or not. This lesson...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

How Much Does Smoking Really Cost?

For Teachers 5th Standards
Following a brief survey about tobacco, scholars examine a fact sheet to answer questions about the substance. A practice page challenges the class to determine the cost of the habit using money math. Pupils discuss their findings...
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Curated OER

Lesson: Living For The City

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Both Money and Cummings were able to capture the essence of Paris. Critical thinkers analyze how each artist used his medium to describe the same place in a different way. Kids then write a Cummings-style poem about Monet's Waterloo Bridge.
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Curated OER

The Money of Great Britain

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students complete a KWL chart about money including what they would like to learn about the currency of Great Britain. In this British currency lesson, students read a text about this topic and view both American and British pictures of...
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Money

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students speak and listen to different prices of items and complete a worksheet. In this prices lesson plan, students circle the correct prices on a sheet they are given based on the ones their teacher calls out.
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Chinese New Year: A Simple Lesson in Debt, Percent, and Loan Interest

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars study Chinese New Year traditions while investigating the concepts of percent and loan interest. They apply the concepts to calculate the total debt on monies borrowed.
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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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