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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.
Lesson Plan
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. Students 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.
Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Coins for Candy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An interactive lesson helps students identify, compare, and learn the value of coins including pennies, nickels, and dimes.
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills for Life: Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A series of financial literacy lesson plans broken out by grade range for grades from Pre-K through college, with an additional set of lessons created for students with special needs.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 3: Money in Our Community

For Teachers K - 1st
Lesson focuses on how and why money circulated within our community. Being able to discern the difference between things we need and things we want is one of the foundational concepts for using money wisely. Goods and services are things...
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Making Spending Decisions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This instructional activity introduces guided, money-related, decision-making activities for children in preschool and kindergarten.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 1: Money Matters

For Teachers K - 1st
The process of earning money is the cornerstone of financial literacy. In this instructional activity, students will identify key terms associated with earning money, explore ideas for earning money now, and evaluate various career...
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: A Pocketful of Gold?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn more about the Susan B. Anthony silver dollar, the Sacagawea coin, and other coins through this resource.
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Lesson Plans Math Vocabulary 1st Grade

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
This site includes two first grade math vocabulary lesson plans: one for measurement terms and time and money, and another for geometry terms
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: How Much Money Do You Have

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart every page has a different total value of currency. Students can practice counting money. This flipchart can be used to add to your currency lesson or used as a center.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Count How Much Money You Have

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart makes a great center or an addition to your money lesson. Students work in pairs or groups. One student drags an amount of money out for their partner and the partner counts the total.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Identifying Coins

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is a Montessori 3-part lesson on identifying coins.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing for Math Class: Follow the Path of Five Dollars

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, Pat Brisson's book Benny's Pennies is used as a mentor text. Students will discover ways to spend money that meets specific criteria. Students must explain their process for their spending choices, and...
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Too Much Noise

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Students count and add coins to determine the fewest number needed to produce a given amount.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Printing Your Own Money

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson outlining a class fundraiser where students design and create their own print to use to make greeting cards.
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University of Texas at Austin

Mathematics Teks Toolkit: Math Bargains

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learners use real coins to explore and solve problems involving the purchase of items.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Money Troubles

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Money Troubles" by Bill Cosby. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Coin Monkey

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson focuses on coins and how to count them to make other coins: pennies, nickles, and quarters.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Smart Math and Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson plan, the poem "Smart" from Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein, is used as the mentor text. Students will write a map of the poem and then analyze it to discover what happened when trades with money were made and...

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