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The Value of a Nation's Currency Goes Beyond its Price Lesson PlanThe Value of a Nation's Currency Goes Beyond its Price Lesson Plan
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The Value of a Nation's Currency Goes Beyond its Price

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Sixth graders understand the meaning of pictures and words on currency. In this currency lesson, 6th graders examine currency to find cultural relationships with a country. Students locate symbols of the country on the currency. Students write pen-pal letters related to information on the currency.

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symbols, literary devices, currency

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6th
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Social Studies & History
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