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Trading Traditions: Based on the American Samoa Quarter Reverse

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate U.S. Currency by researching American Samoa.  For this monetary unit lesson, students define the reverse and obverse of a coin while completing a currency related worksheet.  Students identify American...
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Find the Fewest

For Students 3rd
In this number sense worksheet, 3rd graders circle the fewest coins possible to show each amount given to answer four questions.
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The Price is Right

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this coin worksheet, students circle the coins to show the price of each of the 4 objects on the page. The prices are all under one dollar.
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Lemonade Business Stock Market Intro

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students role play as business owners in order to learn about how certain aspects of business works. In this 3rd - 6th grade lesson plan, students experience creating and running their own business, including earning profits and...
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Budgeting: You Can't Manage What You Don't Know

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discuss budgets. In this mathematics lesson, students watch an episode of Biz Kid$ about budgeting, participate in a guided group discussion, and create a pamphlet to teach others how to budget their money. Extension activities...
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Income and Expenses

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students discuss income and expenses. In this instructional activity on money, students define income and expenses, after whith they keep track of their income and expense transactions on a basic ledger.
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Counting Money

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read, write, and identify different coin combinations and use this information in real-world situations.
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Teaching Economics Using LUNCH MONEY

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students, after reading the book "Lunch Money" by Andrew Clements, explore money and different saving places. They research different ways in which productivity has increased over the years, they examine products to determine if the...
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Introducing money (Elementary, Mathematics)

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students study the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, one each day for four days, using a magnifying glass to identify the similarities. Then students discuss differences and value and learn a 'rap' to memorize values.
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Sam and the Lucky Money

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read the story "Sam and the Lucky Money". Individually, they identify new key terms from the story. In groups, they examine the setting and discuss how it relates to the plots and characters. To end the lesson plan, they...
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Sam and the Lucky Money

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read the story Sam and the Lucky Money. In this reading lesson plan, 3rd graders discuss the story. Students write in a reader's response journal as they read the story.
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Dividing Money

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice division of money with decimal by completing a worksheet.
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How much does soap cost?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice the division concept.  In this dividing instructional activity, 3rd graders watch a video that gives a simple division word problem. Students work collaboratively to find the solution.
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Johnny Appleseed: A History Lesson

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore the life of John Chapman as a History lesson and then reflect on how they might make thier lives more like his.
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Lesson: Litter Hunt

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine the issue of littering. In this waste management lesson, students discover what littering is and how it affects the environment.
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We Need More Than Money

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify examples of private resources. In this philanthropy lesson, students read the book A Chair for My Mother and identify the private resources the characters used in the text. Students name private resources that can help...
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Freckle Juice- Lesson 3

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read and respond to a chapter in a book.  In this vocabulary and reading comprehension lesson, students preview and predict chapter 3 of Freckle Juice, define new vocabulary words, read chapter 3 and complete a vocabulary...
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Multi-Cultural and Multi-Perspective Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss the work of Cesar Chavez. In this multi-cultural lesson, 3rd graders listen to the story Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull. They write a double-entry journal focusing on the rights of farm...
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Symbols on Coins: U.S. Coins Evolved from Ancient Times

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners explore the evolution of coins, and create their own coin, using the various features that have been carried over into modern times.
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May the Best Character Win

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Running an election campaign takes money. Class groups must effectively budget money in order to design and purchase sufficient advertising aimed at procuring classmates' votes. After completing an online tutorial, they also write and...
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Chinese New Year

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the celebration of Chinese New Year. In this Chinese New Year lesson, students discuss their favorite holiday before listening to a read aloud about Chinese New Year. They make red envelopes that are filled with play...
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Charitable Giving

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Charitable organizations and monetary donations to these organizations are the focus of the financial literacy lesson plan presented here. Learners explore how donations benefit both the organization and the people it serves. Each pupil...
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Harmony Day - Driven Out

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Children explore what life might be like for refugees and people migrating to a different country. Each student lists the five most precious items he/she owns and is then given an extreme scenario to consider. By the end of the exercise,...
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Exploring Magnets and Magnetism

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Here is a very good lesson on magnets, magnetism, and magnitic fields that is chock full of great activities for you to implement with your young scientists. Learners discover the properties of magnets, look at the forces of attraction...

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