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Lesson Plan
Dick Blick Art Materials

Artist’s Challenge Coins

For Teachers K - 12th
Make 'em, trade 'em, share 'em. Kids create artist's challenge coins to celebrate personal achievements, as mementos, or as encouragement. Originally designed for service personnel, these coins are a great way to recognize achievement.
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

All About Money

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Few topics engage young mathematicians as much as learning about money. Through a series of shared readings and hands-on activities, children explore the US currency system, learning how to count money and calculate change as they create...
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Curated OER

New $1 Coins Honor U.S. Presidents

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Elementary schoolers examine money, then read a news article about new coins being produced by the U.S. Mint. The teacher introduces the article with samples of American money and a vocabulary activity, then students read the news piece...
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Curated OER

Count Coins and Bills

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Lower graders recognize coins and paper money and understand its value. They participate in a variety of money problems to appreciate the value of money. Students add, subtract, chart and solve money problems.
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Activity
Math Learning Center

Grade 2 Supplement Set A6 – Number and Operations: Money

For Teachers 2nd
Young scholars get familiar with money during this series of engaging math activities. A game has class teams accumulating money and using symbol and number cards to display their total amount correctly on a pocket chart. All the symbol...
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Worksheet
Attainment Company

Money Skills

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Young mathematicians learn to make sense out of money with this collection of skills practice worksheets. From identifying the different coins and bills in the US currency system, to counting money and correctly using the dollar and...
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Printables
Free Stuff for Kids

Printable Play Money

For Teachers 1st - 12th
There are endless uses for printable play money in your classroom, and you'll definitely want to check out these well-designed, attractive printables to add to your bank of manipulatives.
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Interactive
National Constitution Center

Writing Rights: The Bill of Rights

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Where did the cherished ideals enshrined in the Bill of Rights originate? While history gives the Founding Fathers much of the credit, laws in colonial America influenced the Bill of Rights. An interactive web-based activity allows...
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Lesson Plan
Anti-Defamation League

Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill: The Power of Symbols

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
How important are symbols and symbolic gestures in society? Middle schoolers have an opportunity to analyze the importance of symbols on American currency with a lesson that investigates the controversies surrounding redesigning the $5,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Working with Coins #2

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Practice money math with a helpful worksheet. Illustrations of coins, along with word problems, keep second graders focused on adding and subtracting different amounts of money. An excellent homework assignment to reinforce your money...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Working with Money

For Students 2nd - 3rd
How much money do you have? Scholars add up dollars and cents to get totals for 12 visual addition problems. They look at pictures of the currency and write the total numerically (remember that dollar sign). Although the coin images look...
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Lesson Plan
Youthlinc

Financial Literacy: Money Attitudes Lesson Plan

For Students 7th - 10th
Going once, going twice, sold! An auction provides class members with an opportunity to examine their attitudes toward money. After bidding on and purchasing items, individuals complete an attitude survey and then identify a goal that...
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Assessment
Mathematics Assessment Project

A Million Dollars

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Could you carry a million dollars in $1 bills? As a middle school assessment task, learners investigate different questions regarding a million dollars. They then determine how long it would take to make a million dollars, how many...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson: More Than a Dollar's Worth of Meaning

For Teachers K - 5th
The Chinese, Dish with the Eight Buddhist Emblems contains symbols and visual references for learners to explore. They search for Buddhist symbolism on the dish and then they use their observation skills to locate and explore the meaning...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Money Counts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify bills and coins to $20 bills and make equivalencies. They organize bills and coins in groups from greatest to least and least to greatest. Students count out change.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

We're In The Money

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learn about the history of money, as well as counterfeiting, budget vocabulary, and money management. Much of the lesson requires a Nova video; however, it also includes numerous worksheets that may be useful even without the video....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Show Me The Money

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the value of U.S. money. In this money lesson plan, 3rd graders print out pictures of money from the Internet and create play money. The students will play a game in which they display the amount of money called out...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Making Change - Bills And Coins

For Students 2nd - 4th
Here is an interactive worksheet that allows learners to practice counting change with bills and coins, make change for a dollar, and practice their subtraction skills. The bills used are ones, fives, tens, twenties, and fifties. A good...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The History of Paper Money

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners research the history of paper money using the Internet in order to answer questions and create their own bills.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Dollars and Cents Word Problems

For Students 1st - 2nd
Explore money math with these addition and subtraction word problems. Learners solve three scenarios, each of which is illustrated for visual learners. They use knowledge of different types of US currency to determine how much money is...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Expressing Money

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students listen to a book read to them by their teacher and express the amount of money stated with their manipulative of play money and show different ways to express that amount of money.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Division Word Problems: Split The Bill

For Students 4th - 5th
In this division worksheet, students solve a total of 7 problems. All problems ask students to "split a bill" between a number of people. Answers are included on page 2.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"In God We Trust": The Camden Man Who Put the Missing Motto on the Dollar Bill

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Here is a fascintating instructional activity which relates how the motto "In God We Trust" came to appear on all US currency. It turns out that a man from Arkansas came up with the idea and petioned his congressman and President...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Margie Buys Apples

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
One of the most common, everyday applications of math is dealing with money. This single problem calculating how much change Margie receives is more involved than it appears at first glance. An understanding of how fractions and decimals...

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