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International Monetary Fund: All About Money [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A valuable resource for educators who are teaching their young scholars 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...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Electric Money Teaching Guides (History of Money Resources)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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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Federal Reserve Education: Money Resources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A collection of lesson plans for teaching students about money.
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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: What Is Money? Why Does It Have Value?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this lesson, students consider the fact that the value of money differs depending on where the money is being spent. In order to understand this idea, students will first develop a deeper understanding of what it means for money to...
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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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Nearpod: Word Problems: Money

For Teachers 2nd Standards
In this lesson on money word problems, 2nd graders learn about the different coins, explore skip counting on number lines, and apply their learning to a real-world scenario.
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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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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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Show Me the Money

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, young scholars 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...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: I'm Into Money!!!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Many young scholars come to third grade needing to review and/or be retaught counting money and making change. This lesson will begin with a review of counting money. It will then introduce making change.This lesson plan was created as a...
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Econoclass

Econoclass: Money Creation Simulation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This classroom activity enables students to better understand the role of the Federal Reserve and the control of the money supply. The game takes approximately 50 minutes.
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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.
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Lessons: Special Needs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ten customizable financial lessons designed for special needs students.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Spending Money Wisely

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Exercise to help an individual understand the relationship between the work force and the structure of the American family. Includes a bibliography, student reading list, and example problems.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: I Have No Money, Would You Take Wampum?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Through the use of folk tales, history, and the students' own experiences, students will recognize the inter-relatedness of goods, services, money. They will locate information about barter as a means of trade, use folk tales as an...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Funny Money or Phony Money?

For Teachers K - 1st
Money is what we use to show what goods or services are worth. When you do work, you are paid with money. When you sell something, the buyer gives you money. Sometimes it's a lot of money and sometimes it's just a little money. How much...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: What Is Currency? Lessons From Historic Africa

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
From the Smithsonian, this site offers lessons and resources on currency, its use (in the form of gold dust, salt, or metal objects) as an instrument of trade in historic Africa, and its requirements as an instrument of trade in the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Pigs and Money

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
After reading the book "Pigs Will Be Pigs" by Amy Axelrod, students will practice how to add money. They will practice how to spend money without spending more than they have in their budget.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: If You're Working With My Money

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will handle money by opening a cash fund, arranging the money in a cash drawer, make change, and reconcile the cash drawer at the end of a business day. After learning the procedure for handling and reconciling...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Fractions of Time and Money

For Teachers 2nd Standards
People talk about quarters of the hour, or quarters in a dollar. This instructional activity lets students in on what that means.
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University of Nebraska Omaha

University of Nebraska: My Money [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A teaching resource with teacher guides, lesson plans, and a test of money for grades 4, 5, and 6. Includes exercise sheets.
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Social Science Education Consortium

Ssec: Inflation: Are Higher Prices the Only Problem? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This investigation begins with a discussion of spare change. Students are asked to compare and analyze peoples' attitudes toward coins today to those of the past. Students then complete an activity that teaches them how to compare...
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Organization for Community Networks

Academy Curricular Exchange: Consumer Borrowing and Saving

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan which has young scholars learning the realities of borrowing and saving money.

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