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Curated OER

Money: Demonstrating Coin Value up to $1.00

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine coin values up to $1.00 using paper coins. In this coin value lesson, students compare and contrast various coins to aid in identification, sort coins from smallest to largest, and match an equal number of pennies to...
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Curated OER

Money Matters

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners practice spending money by completing math word sentences.  For this economics lesson, students utilize problem solving strategies to complete word problems written on the board involving making purchases with money.  Learners...
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Curated OER

Coins: Names and Value

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners read the story Benny's Pennies and play a matching game where they match the coin to it's value. In this coins lesson plan, students use the SMART Board to view coins.
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Curated OER

Fictional Characters

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore fictional characters. In this fictional characters lesson, students hear information about a character then ask and answer questions. Students also answer true/false questions about the character and make a mini book...
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Curated OER

Comparison Shopping & Buying Supplies

For Teachers 1st
First graders compare prices to determine the best buy. They earn money, by correctly completing math problems. Earnings are used to purchase items from a store using exact change.
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Curated OER

Green is Beautiful

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students explore the need to care for the environment and the ways in which their actions can impact their surroundings. They play a board game to illustrate the need to protect the environment.
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Curriculum Corner

Splashes of Spring Math Centers

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Spring into math practice with a set of resources that taps into a variety of math practice. Skills include matching expressions to their definitions, a place value sorting activity, three multiplication and division games, several...
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Unit Plan
Visa

Rookie Lesson Module — Financial Football

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Score a touchdown with an exciting game of financial football! Middle schoolers choose their favorite teams and play a virtual game of football as they answer various questions about economics.
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Curated OER

Money

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils speak and listen to different prices of items and complete a worksheet. In this prices lesson plan, students circle the correct prices on a sheet they are given based on the ones their teacher calls out.
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Curated OER

Traditional Inuit Games

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore Inuit culture. In this cultural diversity lesson plan, students collaborate to learn Inuit games and teach them to their classmates.
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Curated OER

Money

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners complete online activities to identify coins and their given values. In this coin values lesson, students identify pictures of various coins and write their values. Learners may then complete other activities based on a varying...
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Curated OER

Nickel/Penny Grab

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine the coins nickels and pennies. In this math instructional activity, 1st graders compare the value of the two sets of coins and determine their value. Additionally, students explore counting sets of coins that...
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Curated OER

Common Sense Cookie Shop

For Teachers 1st
First graders shop for a bag of cookies using toy money. In teams, they choose which variety to buy and decides which bills and coins are necessary to buy the bag of cookies and a cashier makes change. They tally the cookies purchased...
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Curated OER

Lesson Four - Making Change

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice making change. In this money lesson, students complete worksheets in which they find the amount of change they would receive from a dollar bill amount. Students go online and play games on this same concept. 
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Curated OER

The Big Buck Adventure

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice making change, and adding and subtracting money. In this money lesson, students listen to a reading of The Big Buck Adventure by Shelley Gil. They access teacher assigned web sites to practice making change, adding...
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Curated OER

Mental Math for Adding Decimals

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders work in groups to practice adding decimals. In this adding decimals lesson, 5th graders call out different money amounts to each other and mentally add the coins called out. Students take turns calling out and adding the...
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Curated OER

Money Game

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders give change of one dollar.  In this decimal and fractions lesson plan, 4th graders receive fake coins and discuss what they could purchase with them.  Students go for a walk and spend one dollar and  get their purchase if...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Coral And Kelp Game Direction- Beginning C Or K

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this initial c or k spelling game, students color and cut out 12 game cards. Each has a picture, with a c or k word with the first letter missing. Detailed instructions and a game board are included.
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Curated OER

Treats in a Basket

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore probability by participating in an experimental activity. For this number statistics lesson, students collaborate in groups in which they move a game piece around a board. Students calculate their probability of landing...
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California Academy of Science

Coincidental Colonization

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
The Galápagos Islands are an amazing place of isolated adaptation, colonized by an interesting mix of plants and animals. The class plays a game to help them understand how these organisms came to live on the island through a combination...
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Chicago Botanic Garden

The Carbon Cycle

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
There is 30 percent more carbon in the atmosphere today than there was 150 years ago. The first lesson in the four-part series teaches classes about the carbon cycle. Over two to three days, classes make a model of the cycle, add missing...
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Curated OER

Using a Round-O-Meter to Estimate

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Explore the concept of rounding numbers to the nearest dollar or dime. Youngsters use a "round-o-meter" to determine which direction to round a number. They make round-o-meters out of a piece of paper, a piece of string, and a paper clip.
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Lesson Plan: Omelet Cooking Principles

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Although designed for a foods lab, the information in this resource might be just the thing for your own recipe notebook. Illustrated, step-by-step directions for making the perfect omelet, egg-citing puzzles, games, and even...
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Michigan State University

Friend or Foe?

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
What one person thinks is a pest may not be a pest to someone else. Here, scholars examine the characteristics of living things and pests through grand conversation and a variety of activities. Class members play a game of pest or not a...