On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario doing Halloween shopping. Those skills include solving money problems with addition and subtraction and understanding the value of money and coins.

An interactive lesson helps students identify, compare, and learn the value of coins including pennies, nickels, and dimes.

In this lesson, students play a game to guess which objects have been used as money throughout history. In the process, they learn several basic economic concepts. For instance, money must be a unit of account, meaning that it must be...

Use this fun learning game in your classroom to help students understand the value of money. Groups of students will be exchanging pennies for other types of coins.

Explore a tutorial to learning facts about the coins and their value then play a game to sort the coins by value.

At T.V. 411 you can explore the concept of paying over time with situations involving credit cards, rent to own items, and more. This interactive lesson gives the learner an opportunity to make decisions about money management.

Why do we use money? Learn why we need money and to identify bills and coins.

Interactive learning game in which students gain practical skills in financial literacy by learning how to identify and count coins. Students choose one of three levels of difficulty.

Students learn how currency values are set by supply and demand, and how changes in the value of currency affect international trade. Students then find the value of the Brazilian Real in 2000 and 2002, determine whether the currency has...

Students will define opportunity cost as they list various career choices and salaries, and calculate future value of money.

Students learn about the money supply and that it can affect the value of money. Students investigate this in the 1896 presidential election (Bryan vs. McKinley, Free Silver vs. Gold Standard) and examine a political cartoon that depicts...

On this interactive site students learn to round numbers to the nearest ten thousand, determine the place value of any digit, and use ordinal numbers.

Children can measure with a favorite character to understand the value of standardized units of measure, such as inches and feet. This activity will help them practice measuring and understand comparing the measurements of one item to...

Students read two online stories that introduce them to the elements of a budget and show that a successful budget balances money coming in (income) with money going out (expenses and savings). Follow-up activities point out the value of...

Use this lesson to learn more about the Hawaiian economics system. Learn how they developed and used this specialized type of money system. "In this lesson, you will learn how specialization and division of labor increased productivity...

This multipart lesson plan the cost of opportunities when you have limited resources. It uses the hilarious children's book, "Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday" by Judith Viorst to drive the lesson home.

Tips for learning the value of saving money to achieve your financial goals.

Learn the essential elements of every good news story from Gerald Lanson and Mitchell Stephens, authors of Writing and Reporting The News, who emphasize eleven judgments that journalism students should make when evaluating newsworthiness.

In this multisensory instructional activity, students will learn the characteristics of each coin (penny, nickel, dime and quarter) and the value for each type of coin. Students will learn record observational data, learn a song, recite...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is to help familiarize first grade students with the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter. They will learn a poem to help remember what each coin looks like and its value. They will also work...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this flipchart to introduce money. The magic mirror lets the children inspect pieces of the coins. Then move on to counting collections of coins, and check the answers as you go. I have used pages...

Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of identifying coin values. Immediate feedback is given.

Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of identifying coin values. Immediate feedback is given.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students are asked to solve word problems involving money. Includes video demonstrating a sample problem [1:07] and a set of practice...