The Digits
Telling Time: The Digits
Time to teach your students how to read a clock? This resource is here to help! Engaging young mathematicians with two fun videos and a series of hands-on activities, these lessons offer a multimedia approach to teaching this important...
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A Dollar for Penny
Young scholars 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. Young scholars determine combinations of coins that can make up a...
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Money and Business (Art)
Third graders investigate world currency by creating their own coin art. In this government lesson, 3rd graders examine the characteristics of different coins and create their own design for a new one. Students discuss and present...
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Piggin' out with Money
Third graders manage money. In this money math lesson, 3rd graders read Pigs Will be Pigs. Students then use manipulatives to practice adding monetary amounts and making change. Students also practice working with money on selected...
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Money and Business
Third graders use play money to complete tasks that allow them to see if the budget they came up with works. In this budget lesson plan, 3rd graders create their own budget and test it out with the play money.
Garden of Praise
George Washington Carver Test
This is a standard multiple-choice assessment on the life and ideas of George Washington Carver. It includes 20 questions on topics covering information about his birth and education, major career moves, teaching principles, ethics, etc.
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Tiling Tessellations
Students explore tessellations. For this shapes and geometry lesson, students describe the attributes of many of the shapes displayed on an Elmo. Students create examples of tessellations using pattern blocks.
K12 Reader
Estimation
When is it a good idea to use estimation? Learn about estimation and rounding with a reading comprehension lesson. After kids read a passage about estimation, they answer five comprehension questions on the other side of the page.
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E3 Practice Assessment - Pets
In this assessment worksheet, 3rd graders complete eight pages of math assessment. Students solve problems related to money and a bar graph. Students solve word problems involving rounding and computation.
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The Money of Great Britain
Young scholars 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...
Council for Economic Education
You Can BANK on This! (Part 4)
Students assess both negative and positive incentives associated with credit card use. They identify profit as an economic incentive for banks to offer credit cards.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Build What I've Created
n this geometric lesson, students define and identify two dimensional shapes based on their attributes. They complete worksheets based on the geometric concepts.
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Working With Coins
Students arrange coins based on their value. In this coins lesson, students trace and record the value of each coin. Students count up to find the total value of all the coins.
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Math & Science
Students are introduced to techniques to help with with math and science. In groups, they use a worksheet to discover how to count money. As a class, they watch a PowerPoint to define terms associated with science. To end the lesson,...
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The Big Buck Adventure
Students practice making change, and adding and subtracting money. In this money lesson, students listen to a reading of The Big Buck Adventure by Shelley Gil. They access teacher assigned web sites to practice making change, adding...
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Deena's Lucky Penny
Students discover the coin denominations of U.S. Currency. In this money lesson, students read the book Deena's Lucky Penny, then complete a coin matching activity using the Internet. Students also read Shel Silverstein's poem...
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Coin Carnival
Students investigate the value of coins. For this coin value lesson, students read The Penny Pot by Stuart Murphy. Students expand on skills learned in the book and engage in activities to determine the value of a mixed set of coins...
K12 Reader
Galileo and His Telescope
Learn about Galileo Galilei's contribution to modern science with a reading passage that focuses on reading comprehension. After kids read several paragraphs about his life, they answer five questions about the information they have just...
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Growing, Growing, Gone
Budding mathematicians identify growing patterns in numbers and songs then create their own patterns. They look at number patterns and language patterns and then create their own using money and footprints.
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Half of a Half
After your math classes have been introduced to fractions (especially those with denominators of two, four, and eight), introduce them to fractions on a number line with this lesson plan. Using a meter length of tape, show your class...
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The Big Buck Adventure: Part 2
Students go on a pretend shopping spree. In this money lesson, students complete a Shopping Spree activity sheet where they pretend they have won $100 and can spend it on a fake shopping spree. Students use the Internet to shop and...
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I'll Have an Order of Subtraction Please!
Students explore number values by completing consumer math worksheets. For this math functions lesson, students identify the use of a decimal in numbers and the place values that are represented when dealing with money. Students complete...
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Our Town Store
Students purchase items in their classroom store. In this money lesson students create a classroom store. The students have a given amount of money and have to decide if they have enough to purchase the items that they would like to.
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Two of Everything
Students listen to story Two of Everything, illustrate coins they would put into the Magic Pot using paper and pencil, and solve Magic Pot riddles by viewing slide show and predicting coin totals. Students then create table listing...