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Nifty Fifty State Trivia

For Teachers 4th - 6th
A wonderful game on U.S. States Trivia awaits your class. In this geography lesson, they will play a Jeopardy-style game. All the worksheets with the questions and answers are embedded in this beautifully-designed plan. Your class should...
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Shopping

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students do a shopping simulation in order to have a chance to apply their math skills in a real life fashion. They decide how much money they have, what they want to buy, if they have enough money and how much change they should get back.
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Savings

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate the different ways to save money and the reasons for doing so. They use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division (with whole numberrs, fractions, decimals, and/or percents, mixed numbers) to solve...
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Shopping

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders simulate a shopping experience. Students are given a specified amount of money and they must spend it. Students choose five items they wish to purchase and determine if they can afford the items.
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Budgeting 101

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify various sources of income and discern between needs and wants as they also learn to create a personal budget.  In this personal budget lesson, student understand financial scenarios as they relate to different ways...
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Play For Pay

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice various skills with manipulatives, such as counting correct money amounts to pay for manipulatives.
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Mini Economy

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders listen as the teacher explains the Mini Economy to be activated in the classroom in the next few weeks. They examine how they to apply for jobs, make money, determine how to save it, and how monetary mishaps occur...
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Pennies

For Teachers K
Students identify pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, and count groups of pennies up to ten. They identify the coins using coin manipulatives, count the pennies on a worksheet, and draw a picture on a two-cent stamp. Students then...
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Change Mixer

For Teachers K - 5th
Students use their abilities to recognize coins and their values in this game that focuses on locomotor skills (skip, slide, gallop, run, jump). This game also requires students to add coin values.
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Great Graphs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars create graphs by tabulating their preferences among 10 state quarters. They examine quarters and tally their favorites. They complete a worksheet. There are more lesson plans included in this unit.
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Term Deposits: Worth the Wait?

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students study term deposits and the attributes of long and short-term savings. They examine their spending habits while looking at how different types of accounts meet different economic goals. They complete worksheets that are provided...
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ALL EQUIVALENCIES - MAKING 25 CENTS

For Teachers 1st
First graders individually use the computer to manipulate pennies, nickels, and dimes to equal the value of a quarter. Students show different values in a variety of ways. With the teacer students complete worksheet located on the white...
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Waste Audit

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of mental math. They perform calculations as following: recognizing a half, three quarters, and tenths. Students are also challenged to extend skills to making calculation...
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Pictures Telling Stories

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students see the importance of primary sources in the study of history, but also the limitations of relying only on primary sources of taking the money, as it were, at face value.
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Coin Tossing

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine the use of probability and compare it to actual real world results. In groups, they flip a coin a specific number of times while their other group members roll a set of dice the same amount of times as the coin. To...
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Basic Operations With Decimals

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders solve real life addition and subtraction decimal problems. In groups, they read a real life scenario. They use a newspaper to gather data to solve the situation. Students create a poster containing the justification for...
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Let's Make Lemonade Lesson 3: What's the Big Idea?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine and decide on a service-learning project to perform. They design and execute posters that advertise the project using geometric shapes.
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Sorting Pennies, A Wagering Activity for Algebra I

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Young scholars solve weight equations. For this equations lesson, groups of students weigh and separate pennies to find information necessary to solve simultaneous equations. The teacher provides equations based on the weight of pennies...
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Addition and Subtraction of Signed Numbers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars explore the concept of adding and subtracting using positive and negative numbers. For this addition and subtraction of signed numbers lesson, students use pennies to represent positive and negative numbers. Young scholars...
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Going Camping

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of budgeting. In this budgeting lesson, students pretend to have $120 to spend on camping gear for a camping trip. Middle schoolers decide which items are absolutely necessary. Students calculate the...
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Wheel of Fortune for Students with Multiple Disabilities

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students play Wheel of Fortune. In this Wheel of Fortune lesson, students with disabilities play an online version of the game to earn rewards and small prizes. Students must solve math problems correctly in order to win. 
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Com-Post With Us? Learn About Recycling While Having Fun

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students examine the importance of recycling to help the environment. In groups, they make a compost bin on the school grounds recording how the material changes from week to week. They collect other materials for recycling like cell...
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Understanding Risk And Return

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students engage in a lesson introducing them to the concept of Risk and Return. Risk and return is a basic principle that should be understood before investing money. They utilize an interactive worksheet imbedded in this plan.
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Solving Equations- Addition And Subtraction

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders engage in the study of solving equations using the operations of addition and subtraction. They practice solving a variety of different problems. The lesson plan includes steps that can be used by the teacher for direct...