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Give Me Five, Cents That Is

For Teachers K
Students explore coins, especially the nickel, through a toy cash register, worksheet, and paper nickels.
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You May Already Be a Winner!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders flip coins and tally the outcomes. They play the You May Already Be a Winner! game with cards under their chairs. Some cards are winners, some might be and the others are not. They play to explain the probability concept.
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Rules of Sign Change

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students manipulate negative and positive numbers. In this integers lesson, students move through three activities exploring negative and positive whole numbers. A number line, cardboard function representation, and solving expressions...
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What I Want- Where I Want It

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students in an English learning classroom play a review vocabulary game in which they must match items with related activities. For example, if they have the term "banking" they must match with someone else who has the term, "money."
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Non-Western Economic Values

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students engage in a game of economic exchange that present a variety of perspectives on wealth. They read scenarios and write a journal response to the scenario. They discuss how we use money in the Western culture and discuss how...
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Hereos and Celebrities

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils complete a vocabulary game using new words. They use a Venn diagram to distinguish between a celebrity and a hero. They take a vocabulary quiz to complete the lesson.
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A Penny Saved

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Budgeting, net vs. gross pay, savings, and fees are all key elements of personal financing and essential for your class members to learn about as young adults.
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Our Daily Five

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the food pyramid through a class discussion, hands-on experience with food items, and a floor game that helps them to identify the food group involved. Lesson extensions include the use of play money, art, and dance.
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Stock Market Fractions

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners solve addition and subtraction of mixed numbers. After a teacher lead discussion on the stock market, students use addition and subtraction to model the stock exchange. In groups, learners participate in a "Stock Up and Win"...
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You're the Cashier!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use manipulatives and computers to count back change from amounts up to $5.00.
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Take Action Haiti

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Using an online internet simulation, learners will role-play various members of a family living in rural Haiti. The objective is to increase global awareness by requiring them to consider poverty as an obstacle to education in Haiti....
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Tax Jeopardy

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Create a glossary of tax-related vocabulary and clip New York Times articles that present tax procedure in action, in preparation for participating in a tax quiz bowl. Young economists explore allegations that "Survivor" Richard Hatch...
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Mathalicious

Pic Me!

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Finally! Math and Instagram have come together to discuss the correlation between likes and followers. High schoolers can't help but want to discover what makes one account more popular than another by developing a line of best fit and...
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Colossal Squid Caught in Antarctic

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students define the word colossal, then read a news article about an enormous squid caught off Antarctica. In this animal studies and current events instructional activity, the teacher introduces the article with dictionary and...
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Is Bigger Always Better?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore rational numbers with the young mathematicians in your class. They will investigate decimals, fractions, and percents before ordering and comparing rational numbers. This multi-day unit includes differentiation activities and...
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Debt: Who Does it Affect?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Debt is a topic that affects everybody: the community, the nation, and the entire globe. Kids take charge of debt by designing a project that informs those in their community about good financial choices, keeps personal debt low, and...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Multiple Meaning Words in Context

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Multiple meaning words is the focus of a lesson designed to reinforce the use of context clues. Scholars listen carefully to a variety of sentences using the words pool and cast to decide which definition best fits the...
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Arizona Cooperative Extension

Geocaching

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Using GPS units, small groups participate in a scavenger hunt to find an object that you have hidden. They use coordinates for stopping points along a pre-planned path to get to the final cache. This is a terrific activity to include in...
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Sentence Auction

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students read sentences and try to identify which ones are grammatically correct and which contain grammatical errors.
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Dream Home Mathematics

For Teachers 6th
Explore the concept of budgeting with sixth graders. They will pick a career on note card made by the teacher. They then use the information on the card such as salary, expenses, and career to create a life for themselves. They also...
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Visa

Home Sweet Home: Purchasing a Place

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
While the process of buying a home can certainly be overwhelming, give your young adults a leg up for their future by introducing them to the components of a mortgage, as well as exploring the basic concept of credit and how to become...
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EngageNY

Using Expected Values to Compare Strategies

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Discover how mathematics can be useful in comparing strategies. Scholars develop probability distributions for situations and calculate expected value. They use their results to identify the best strategy for the situation.
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What Drives the Stock Prices?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students see that earnings drive stock prices. More importantly, students look for earnings growth from the continuing operations of a business.
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A Ghost in the Family

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this reading worksheet, students answer 10 multiple-choice questions about the book. For example, "Who did Chad and Jeannie visit?"

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