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Practical Money Skills

About Credit

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
It's tempting to stay away from credit cards entirely, and it can also be tempting to charge large purchases on credit cards with the intention to pay them off later. But as a three-part lesson on credit and debt shows your high...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Field Day Scarcity

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Introduce young mathematicians to concepts of financial literacy with this open-ended word problem. With seven dollars to spend during field day and given a list of available items and their prices, children must determine how they want...
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Do the Campaign Math

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Follow the money trail! As part of their study of the 2020 Presidential campaign, class members to research how much money candidates have raise and spent, as well as the sources of the funds. They then graph their findings to compare...
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Federal Reserve Bank

The Pickle Patch Bathtub

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
What do your pupils want to save up their money for? Based around the book The Pickle Patch Bathtub, this lesson plan covers opportunity cost, saving, and spending. Learners participate in a discussion and practice making their own...
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Scholastic

Food To Go

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Molly Mouse and Woovis the Dog are hungry! Can you help them order from a menu with a $5 bill? Kids read five word problems and use the menu to determine what the friends can order.
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Federal Reserve Bank

Glo Goes Shopping

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Making decisions can be very difficult. Show your class one way to evaluate choices with this instructional activity, which is inspired by the book Glo Goes Shopping. Learners practicing using a decision-making grid with the content of...
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Curated OER

Making Sense of Dollars and Cents

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Teaching the money system to youngsters through games, literature, and real-world simulations
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Study Jams! Fractions

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
What can quesadillas teach your class about fractions? More than you might think. AJ and Zoe from the StudyJams! crew use this Mexican cuisine to explain how fractions are just equal parts of a whole, defining the key terms numerator and...
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Curated OER

Counting on Coins

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners count coins. For this currency and mathematics lesson, students use skip counting to figure the value of a group of coins. Learners use plastic replica coins and real coins.
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Curated OER

Mental Math for Adding Decimals

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders work in groups to practice adding decimals. For this adding decimals lesson, 5th graders call out different money amounts to each other and mentally add the coins called out. Students take turns calling out and adding the...
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Curated OER

Money

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars count money using only coins.  In this money instructional activity, students read Bennies Pennies, practice counting the pennies in the story and are then introduces to the different coins, penny, nickel, dime and...
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Curated OER

A Lesson to Accompany "Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy"

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Young scholars examine the role of money in the colonial economy by participating in a trading activity. In this colonial economy lesson plan, students complete an activity to learn about colonial trade and what happens when there is a...
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Curated OER

Shopping

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students demonstrate how to count money through a simulated shopping experience. In this consumer math lesson, students read the book Just Shopping With Mom and count play money to illustrate how much the items in the book cost.
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Curated OER

Pocket Change

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice identifying coins and their values. In this money identification lesson plan, students play a game, where they toll a coin, determine the value, and compare totals to win.
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Curated OER

Money Smart Choices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars make choices regarding money management. In this personal finance lesson, students explore budgets, incomes, and expenses as they learn vocabulary regarding personal finance and consider how to create personal...
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Curated OER

Rice Math

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice basic subtraction facts using a number grid.  In this rice math lesson, 4th graders figure out how much more they need to get to a specific number.  Students complete a chart of examples and then play a...
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Curated OER

Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday

For Teachers 2nd Standards
What a great way to incorporate Judith Viorst's story, Alexander, Who Used to Be Rish Last Sunday, with a math lesson on money. Second graders listen to the story being read while the teacher stops to record each time Alexander spends...
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Curated OER

Lesson 10 What is an Initial Public Offering (IPO)?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students understand the difference between primary and secondary stock markets. Through the activities in this lesson, students predict the next best time to invest in IPOs for the Global Stock Game.
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Curated OER

Cyber Currency, Currently

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students participate in online currency activities. In this currency lesson, students complete 6 activities which include online resources. They learn about bartering, monetary systems, foreign currency, stores, selling items, and finish...
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Curated OER

The Role of Money

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the role of money. In this money lesson plan, 4th graders read a chapter from Judy Blume's, Double Fudge, to see how money is made and how people make money. They finish a worksheet, and play a game about money.
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Curated OER

Cyber Currency, Currently

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the value of currency and how to save and earn interest. In a key lesson plan, kids even get to purchase items in their classroom's general store. It's a fun way to learn the importance of being financially literate!
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Curated OER

Money, Money, Honey Bunny!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars read a story about spending and saving money and talk about the difference between goods and services. In this money lesson plan, students also play a matching game to review the story and practice rhyming words from the...
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Curated OER

Characteristics and Functions of Money

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss the function and characteristics of money. In this financial education lesson plan, 4th graders read the book The Go-Around Dollar by Johnston Adams. This book sparks a conversation on how money is used and the...
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Curated OER

Money: Kids and Cash

For Teachers K - 5th
Students discuss what a bank is and what it is used for. In this mathematics lesson, students solve problems related to interest and percentages.

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