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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: If You're Working With My Money

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, 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...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Counting Up the Cost!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders love to shop! In this exciting instructional activity, 4th graders will discover how to count money using some real world activities. This instructional activity includes a detailed lesson plan, printable worksheets, and a...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Shop 'Til You Drop

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides an end of unit review for identifying coins, adding money amounts, and making change.
Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: Change Maker

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is the Canadian version of the Change Maker game. Practise making small amounts of change in Canadian currency by choosing how many of each coin is needed.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Money Change From $10

For Teachers 1st - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a differentiated interactive flipchart in which students visit an ice-cream shop, computer shop and fish & chip shop to calculate change from $10 for various items.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Coin Box

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learn how to count, collect, exchange, and make change for coins by manipulating coins using an array representation.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Orange Trees, Olive Trees: 3 Digit Numbers and Fractions

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
In this interactive site, students practice various skills including finding the total, odd and even numbers, making change, and fractions by helping a farmer pick and sell his oranges and olives.
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.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Making Fair Trades

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students make fair trades using pennies and nickels or pennies and dimes. They will also review coins and their names.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Count It Up!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created for elementary grade level students (grades 2-3) learning to make change by counting up. It also includes links to three websites with additional practice.
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.
Article
Georgetown University

Georgetown University: News Values

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn the essential elements of every good news story from Gerald Lanson and Mitchell Stephens, authors of Writing and Reporting The News, who emphasize eleven judgments that journalism students should make when evaluating newsworthiness.
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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 Change

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students count out coins to pay for different items and different ways you can write cents. There are various items and opportunities for students can practice shopping. This makes a great center activity.
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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,...
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,...
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,...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Getting Paid for Our Work

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders see how money is used to buy and sell items. They will participate in an activity to see how people get money.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Let's Go Shopping!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson will give students practice with adding and subtracting money using a calculator. It will provide them an opportunity to determine savings using a store coupon, and determine the change they should recieve when making...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 4.md Margie Buys Apples

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This task gives students an opportunity to work with familiar fractions and decimals in a context involving money. Aligns with 4.MD.A.2.
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Arcademics

Arcademics: Dolphin Feed

For Students 2nd - 4th
Feed the dolphin selecting the coins that make the given amount of change.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Work, Earnings and Economics: Using Lyddie by Katherine Paterson

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In reading and discussing Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson, students examine basic economic concepts and explore the growth of labor unions and the role of government in a market economy.
Interactive
Math Playground

Math Playground: Dolphin Feed

For Students 1st - 2nd
Practice your skills at counting money in this online game where you try to make the correct change.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Little Women: Becoming a Writer

For Students 6th - 9th
Explore the conflict between Jo March and her father over writing for money, in this video excerpt [1:36] from Little Women, Masterpiece. Like Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, Jo is an aspiring writer. When she receives a...

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