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International Monetary Fund: All About Money [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A valuable resource for educators who are teaching their students 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 games are...
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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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Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond: My Money

For Teachers K - 1st
A PDF student workbook to teach elementary students about money, including values of coins, opportunity costs, and goods and services.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Revolutionary Money

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A two-lesson unit using the Smithsonian collection of currency to teach students about the first American money. Other resources are given and all materials are downloadable.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Money

For Students 9th - 10th
Economics website presents a video [0:52] and quiz teaching students about the concept of money and monetary goods.
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Save a Million

For Students 9th - 10th
Practical skills in finance and economics teach students about saving, budgeting, and retirement. Students can calculate what it takes to become a millionaire based on their age and income.
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C-SPAN

C Span Classroom: Teaching About Campaign Finance

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module teaches students how political candidates fund their campaigns. Through wathcing videos and reading related articles on money in politics, students will form their own opinion and participate in classroom deliberations on...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Bouncing Ball Money Choices

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students play a game to share how they think and feel about money.
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University of Missouri

University of Missouri: Wise Pockets: Berenstain Bears' Trouble With Money

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Using a Berenstain Bears' book, students are introduced to concepts such as spending, goods, services, income, saving, and interest. Lesson is detailed and has good activities. Includes questions about the story that teach students about...
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Wisconsin Educational Communications Board: Financial Literacy: Teach It!

For Students 9th - 10th
Students at all grade levels learn about basic finance skills and explore ways to make informed decisions about their financial future.
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Council for Economic Education

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

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site teaches students about traditional economies and how exchanges of goods and services were made before money. Students learn about a bater economy which predates our traditional economy.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Identifying Coins

For Teachers 2nd
Find a lesson here to help students learn more about money that is all around them! Give them the chance to review coin identification with the coin game and practice.
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Federal Reserve Bank

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Less Than Zero [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson accompanies a story by Stuart J. Murphy called Less Than Zero and teaches young scholars about how to manage their money by saving it and setting goals for themselves.
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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 lesson lets students in on what that means.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: It Is About Time

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders worked on telling time to the hour and half hour earlier in the year. Now they will apply their understanding of counting by 5s to telling time to the five minute interval.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineer a Coin Sorter

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students learn about the engineering design process and how it is used to engineer products for everyday use. Students individually brainstorm solutions for sorting coins and draw at least two design ideas. They work in small groups to...
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Wells Fargo Bank: Hands on Banking for Kids

For Students K - 1st
Mini learning modules that teach kids about money and its worth. Students also learn how to set financial goals during these interactive activities.
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Rich Kid Smart Kid: Ima's Dream

For Students K - 1st
Animated learning games for students in all grades K-12, teaches them about basic finance, how to save, give and invest.
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Protecting Yourself From Identity Theft

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After watching a video about the dangers of identity theft, learners will choose actions that will help protect their personal information.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Lesson Plan: A Chair for My Mother

For Teachers K - 1st
This extensive lesson plan uses the Children's Literature book "A Chair for My Mother," by Vera B. Williams to teach the concepts of saving and reaching a goal. Primary students are the target for this lesson.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Learn to Build a Rocket in 5 Days or Your Money Back

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students discover the entire process that goes into designing a rocket for any customer. In prior lessons, students learned how rockets work, but now they learn what real-world decisions engineers have to make when...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Show Me the Money

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn about the major factors that comprise the design and construction cost of a modern bridge. Before a bridge design is completed, engineers provide overall cost estimates for construction of the bridge. Students learn about...
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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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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Making Cents Out of Centimes: The Euro

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Use this intermediate lesson plan to teach your students about the European currency, the Euro. Interactive links take the learner to France where they learn about French money and French culture.