Teachnology
Teachnology: Money Teaching Theme
Money Teaching Theme provides an excellent collection of free sample worksheets, teacher resources, lesson plans and interactive media for the elementary grades.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Electric Money Teaching Guides (History of Money Resources)
Five teaching guides containing interdisciplinary lessons that can be used to explore the characteristics of money; how credit, debit, and smart cards work; financial markets and transactions; and similar topics. Designed as complements...
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International Monetary Fund: All About Money [Pdf]
A valuable resource for educators who are teaching their students about money. A series of lesson plans cover everything from the different forms of currency over time, to trade and economic growth and exchange. Activities and games are...
Other
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond: My Money
A PDF student workbook to teach elementary students about money, including values of coins, opportunity costs, and goods and services.
Other
Federal Reserve Education: Money Resources
A collection of lesson plans for teaching students about money.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
A to Z Teacher Stuff: Teaching Money
This lesson plan site from A to Z Teacher Stuff focuses on students identifying coin, money values, writing amounts of money, and counting money to a specific dollar amount with at least 80% accuracy.
C-SPAN
C Span Classroom: Teaching About Campaign Finance
Learning module teaches students how political candidates fund their campaigns. Through wathcing videos and reading related articles on money in politics, students will form their own opinion and participate in classroom deliberations on...
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: The History of Money
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis traces the history of money up from coins in ancient times to modern paper, currency, and e-money.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Revolutionary Money
A two-lesson unit using the Smithsonian collection of currency to teach students about the first American money. Other resources are given and all materials are downloadable.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Top Questions Kids Ask About Money & Answers Better Money Habits
How to turn uncomfortable questions into an opportunity to teach kids about money. Content brought to you by our partner, Better Money Habits.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Money
Economics website presents a video [0:52] and quiz teaching students about the concept of money and monetary goods.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Lessons: Pre K Grade2
Four lessons on basic money skills for young learners cover topics such as identifying money, spending money, and earning money.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Time and Money
As the result of a Unit assessment, it was found that students showed some confusion with writing time and with adding sets of coins. These skills need to be reviewed to aid in mastery of the Common Core standards for time and money.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: More Dimes and Dollars
Second graders need practice using coins and dollars and relating them to ones, tens and hundreds. Common Core standards include counting by 10s and 100s.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Compare Money Amounts
This interactive lesson teaches how to compare money amounts step by step.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Lessons: Grades 3 6
Four fiancial literacy lessons on allowances, money responsibility, saving, and comparison shopping. Lessons can be evaluated separately or as a group.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Pennies a Little Goes a Long Way Game
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.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Avengers Comic Teaches Mad Money Skills
The Avengers teach Spider-Man the principles of saving and spending as they save a bank from the evil powers of Mole Man. This site includes an online comic book, an instruction guide for teachers, and a budget worksheet.
Other
My Schoolhouse: Counting Money: Coins
Interactive lesson teaches students how to count coins. Students can practice the skill and check their answers.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Cash Puzzler
Memory game for early elementary students teaches them to recognize different denominations of money.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Save a Million
Practical skills in finance and economics teach students about saving, budgeting, and retirement. Students can calculate what it takes to become a millionaire based on their age and income.
PBS
Pbs: Electronic Money Unit
Electronic Money is a PBS series of five classroom (grades 9-12) activities and lessons which include great support material on evolution of money and the e-money revolution.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Lessons: Special Needs
Ten customizable financial lessons designed for special needs students.
Other
Federal Bank of Richmond: My Money
For elementary students, this booklet of activities teaches basic money skills and concepts. Includes lesson plans.