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- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students work with money manipulatives to solve word problems that involve adding money amounts and making change. They listen to a read aloud of the book, Pigs be Pigs, the embedded problems and write their own Pig problems. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 4th
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Students review U.S. currency noting its design and value. They review counting by 5's and 10's. They work in groups with manipulative money to count out the amounts necessary to buy tagged items. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students learn the value of money by role playing shopping. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students explore money via poetry and problem solving. As students listen to the poem, 'More Money, More Money,' they work with their collection of quarters to simulate what's happening in the poem. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students research the history of paper money using the Internet in order to answer questions and create their own bills. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students discuss the need for money in society and then set up a simulated bartering auction in the classroom. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students learn the history of money and gain a sense of how money is used around the world. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students examine the role of trust when dealing with the use of money. They discover the history of money and how it was developed. They also examine how money is valued and ensured. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students keep a journal on their current spending habits. In groups, they develop guidelines for a family to follow given a specific amount of take home pay. They role play various scenerios to see what can be done with a given amount of money and without borrowing from their parents. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to the time value of money. Using different scenerios, they discover the advantages to receiving money in a lump sum rather than over time. They identify their opportunity cost of each scenerio and their trade-offs. They calculate the amount of money they would make if they invest their money. Full Review »

