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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.
Unit Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
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...
Lesson Plan
Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Making Spending Decisions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson introduces guided, money-related, decision-making activities for children in preschool and kindergarten.
Lesson Plan
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 lesson, students will identify key terms associated with earning money, explore ideas for earning money now, and evaluate various career options as sources of...
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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.
Lesson Plan
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...
Activity
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.
Lesson Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
University of Texas at Austin

Mathematics Teks Toolkit: Math Bargains

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students use real coins to explore and solve problems involving the purchase of items.
Lesson Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
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. Young scholars will write a map of the poem and then analyze it to discover what happened when trades with money were...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Field Day Scarcity

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students will learn about managing money and scarcity while practicing addition and subtraction. They will be given a certain amount of money to spend at a fictitious store. Included are discussion questions about how students decided to...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Giants and the Math Challenge

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, young scholars create and solve a word problem related to counting money, develop a script for a short scene, and perform it using the elements of performance. Teacher resources are provided.
Graphic
Curated OER

Lesson Plan: Money, Money, Money

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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,...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Lets Go Shopping With Dollars

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to count currency to pay for different items. Use this flipchart in addition to your lesson or as a center activity.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Friend, Can You Share Some Coins

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a lesson on coins and their value. There are student activities included.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: How Much Money

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn to count coins by using the engaging and interactive magic tricks of Activstudio. The flipchart includes introductory activities, guided practice, independent practice, and opportunities...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Counting Lesson Using Pennies and Dimes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Saxon Math Lesson 53 - writing the Number 48 counting pennies and dimes.

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