Georgetown University
Georgetown University: News Values
Learn the essential elements of every good news story from Gerald Lanson and Mitchell Stephens, authors of Writing and Reporting The News, who emphasize eleven judgments that journalism students should make when evaluating newsworthiness.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Lets Go Shopping With Change
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students count out coins to pay for different items and different ways you can write cents. There are various items and opportunities for students can practice shopping. This makes a great center activity.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Little Women: Becoming a Writer
Explore the conflict between Jo March and her father over writing for money, in this video excerpt [1:36] from Little Women, Masterpiece. Like Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, Jo is an aspiring writer. When she receives a...
Other
The Actuarial Foundation: Math Academy: Dining Out [Pdf]
Students will understand and apply concepts of fractions, decimals and percents to count money, make change, figure tax/tips and participate in other restaurant-related activities.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Shop 'Til You Drop
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides an end of unit review for identifying coins, adding money amounts, and making change.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Count It Up!
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created for elementary grade level students (grades 2-3) learning to make change by counting up. It also includes links to three websites with additional practice.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Marketplace: Let's Go Euro!
With the start of the new year in 2002, the 12 members of the European Union launched a single currency across their borders, replacing individual country currencies and singling out the Euro as their one shared monetary denomination....
Curated OER
Lesson Plan: Money, Money, Money
It all about money! Explore the concept of money in this real-world, unit plan. A collection of six lessons where students practice skills such as coin identification, mental math, menu math, making change, math operations with coins,...
Curated OER
Lesson Plan: Money, Money, Money
It all about money! Explore the concept of money in this real-world, unit plan. A collection of six lessons where students practice skills such as coin identification, mental math, menu math, making change, math operations with coins,...
Curated OER
Lesson Plan: Money, Money, Money
It all about money! Explore the concept of money in this real-world, unit plan. A collection of six lessons where students practice skills such as coin identification, mental math, menu math, making change, math operations with coins,...
Curated OER
Lesson Plan: Money, Money, Money
It all about money! Explore the concept of money in this real-world, unit plan. A collection of six lessons where students practice skills such as coin identification, mental math, menu math, making change, math operations with coins,...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Coin Box
Learn how to count, collect, exchange, and make change for coins by manipulating coins using an array representation.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Getting Paid for Our Work
Second graders see how money is used to buy and sell items. They will participate in an activity to see how people get money.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Let's Go Shopping!
This lesson will give students practice with adding and subtracting money using a calculator. It will provide them an opportunity to determine savings using a store coupon, and determine the change they should recieve when making...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Orange Trees, Olive Trees: 3 Digit Numbers and Fractions
In this interactive site, students practice various skills including finding the total, odd and even numbers, making change, and fractions by helping a farmer pick and sell his oranges and olives.
Arcademics
Arcademics: Dolphin Feed
Feed the dolphin selecting the coins that make the given amount of change.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 4.md Margie Buys Apples
This task gives students an opportunity to work with familiar fractions and decimals in a context involving money. Aligns with 4.MD.A.2.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Work, Earnings and Economics: Using Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
In reading and discussing Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson, young scholars examine basic economic concepts and explore the growth of labor unions and the role of government in a market economy.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Dolphin Feed
Practice your skills at counting money in this online game where you try to make the correct change.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Spare a Watt, Save a Lot
In this science fair project, you will investigate the different uses of electricity in your home. By identifying appliances, and determining how much energy they use, as well as which are phantom loaders, you can determine if there are...