Playing Store Without Money -- The Barter System in Pio

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.

Young scholars study bartering. In this social studies instructional activity, students discuss the difference between needs and wants. Young scholars discover how trade and barter have been used throughout the years. Students trade and...

Include Hanukkah into classroom workstations during the holiday season with energetic activities and games. Children learn about the Jewish culture, play games, make crafts, and learn how to cook delicious potato latkes.

Students explore bartering. In this bartering lesson, students study everyday life in the Jamestown colony. Students discover how bartering was used as a way to acquire necessary supplies.

Students explore the the benefits and problems associated with a barter system in the Colonies and trace its relationship to the development of interdependence that this system creates. An experience of bartering is created in this lesson.

Students explore the concept of trade and bartering and participate in a game titled "Barter Bag." They discuss the difference between wants and needs, and read a list of rules for the game. Students then use a bartering system to...

Suggested topics for a role play debate include school uniforms and culpability for drunk driving, but any issue of interest to your class will work. What are the hot issues in your community or on the news right now? Class members...

Students practice bartering. In this colonial lesson, students find that the colonists had to barter with one another to get the items they needed. Students bring in an item to barter with their classmates and discuss this simulation. 

Third graders sketch out how money can work in one's life. What the purpose of money is for in people's lives. What is the difference between wants and needs. Research how one actually earns money.

Third graders explore the value of U.S. money. In this money lesson, 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 by...