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Practical Money Skills

Visa: Practical Money Skills for Life

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Visa provides a resource that teachers, parents, and students will all enjoy using. There are lesson plans here for all ages, as well as information about spending decisions, budgeting, and money management. Print your own play money,...
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James Madison University

James Madison University: Online Elementary Economics Lessons

For Teachers K - 1st
James Madison University has developed a variety of online economic lessons for elementary learners. Explore basic economic and financial concepts.
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Lesson Plan: Money, Money, Money

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
It all about money! Explore the concept of money in this real-world, unit plan. A collection of six lessons where students practice skills such as coin identification, mental math, menu math, making change, math operations with coins,...
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Lesson One: Making Spending Decisions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The goal of this instructional activity is to introduce structured spending decisions to assist young children in making choices and to recognize that money comes in limited amounts.
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Lesson Two: Spending Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson introduces children to the concept of dividing their money into categories, namely "save," "spend," and "share" and presents activities that will help them understand that money is limited in quantity and must be divided for...
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Money Teaching Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Money Teaching Theme provides an excellent collection of free sample worksheets, teacher resources, lesson plans and interactive media for the elementary grades.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Money Doesn't Grow on Trees

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson plan helps students distinguish between earned and unearned income by identifying methods for getting money.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Mathematics Lessons: Counting on Coins

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan for coin identification is aimed at Kindergarten and First Grade. Lots of activities, suggestions and other resources are also available.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Let's Find Out About Money

For Students K - 1st
In this multisensory lesson, 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 a poem, and play...
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Other

Federal Reserve Education: Money Resources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A collection of lesson plans for teaching students about money.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Smart Money Lesson

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Smart Money poem is used to introduce and reinforce counting money.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Want to Trade?

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners will write about what they would trade for gold and practice inventive spelling in the process. After reading "In 1492", students will discuss how Christopher Columbus traded with the natives and then write what they would trade...
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PBS

Pbs Mathline: Money Counts Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Play the Money Exchange Game to count and compare the different amounts of money. Printable lesson.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Changing Face of Money

For Teachers K - 1st
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...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: On the Money

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson plan, students explore what money is and how it differs around the world. They will compare U.S. currency with play money and with foreign currency. They will then use their knowledge to design their own money.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: No Funny Money, Honey I Want the Real Thing!

For Teachers K - 1st
Do you know what funny money is? It's NOT the real thing! Find out how our government tries to make our money hard to copy in this lesson about real and fake money.
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Crayola

Crayola: Money in the Bank

For Teachers K - 1st
Young bankers and storekeepers practice counting money and making change. They keep their money in this recycled-box bank.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Compare Money Amounts

For Students 1st - 3rd
This interactive lesson teaches how to compare money amounts step by step.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Lesson Plan: A Chair for My Mother

For Teachers K - 1st
This extensive lesson plan uses the Children's Literature book "A Chair for My Mother," by Vera B. Williams to teach the concepts of saving and reaching a goal. Primary students are the target for this lesson.
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Lessons: Pre K Grade2

For Teachers K - 1st
Four lessons on basic money skills for young learners cover topics such as identifying money, spending money, and earning money.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Show Me the Money

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students identify coins, describe their attributes, learn their value, and count like coins. Students view an interactive web lesson that provides practice. Concepts are taught using songs, poems and games. This lesson...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 2: Money Planning

For Teachers K - 1st
What can we do with money? Deciding on the best use of our money requires planning. Learners will identify ways that money can be used: spending, saving, and giving.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 1: Money Basics

For Teachers K - 1st
Why do we use money? Learn why we need money and to identify bills and coins.
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Other

My Schoolhouse: Counting Money: Coins

For Students K - 1st Standards
Interactive lesson teaches students how to count coins. Students can practice the skill and check their answers.

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