ClassFlow
Class Flow: Making Change
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will drag various coins and paper money to count up to make change. They will also solve real life situations to make change.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Making Fair Trades
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students make fair trades using pennies and nickels or pennies and dimes. They will also review coins and their names.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Let's Go Shopping
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to count change and dollars to pay for different items. Use this flipchart in addition to your lesson or as a center activity.
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.
Expansion Learning
Expansion Learning: Math Activity: What Coin Is This?
Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of identifying coins. Immediate feedback is given.
Read Works
Read Works: Time for Change
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about $1 coins featuring different Presidents being minted in 2007. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Finding the Total Monetary Value
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to find a monetary value given a specific amount of quarters, dimes, and nickels where students have to multiply each coin amount and then...
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Change Due
This lesson explains what making change is, contains a game and other resources to help you practice this important skill.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Adding Nickels and Pennies
Use this interactive online game to find the sums of different combinations of pennies and nickels. The game keeps a running total of correct and incorrect answers, as well as the percent of correct answers.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Adding Dimes and Pennies
Use this online game to add different combinations of dimes and pennies. The game keeps a percent score of your correct answers, as well as a running total of the number of your correct and incorrect answers.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Adding Dimes, Nickels, and Pennies
Add different combinations of pennies, nickels, and dimes with this online game. You can see the percent of correct answers you have, as well as running totals of correct and incorrect answers.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute: Coin Identification
Two very basic coin identification activities and a teacher lesson plan are available at this website. These activities may require an explanation before primary age students can use them.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: A Brief History of Video Games (Part I)
Video games are everywhere these days, but where did they actually come from? The history of video games is a complicated story that involves giant computers in science labs, the founder of Chuck E. Cheese and billions of dollars in...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: A New Colonial System
Although some believe that the history of the American Revolution began long before the first shots were fired in 1775, England and America did not begin an overt parting of the ways until 1763, more than a century and a half after the...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Stamp Act Controversy
Read about why the Stamp Act caused such controversy in the colonies. The British Parliament had imposed several taxes previously, but find out why this one, in particular, struck such a chord.