Pennsylvania Department of Education
How Many Ways?
Students estimate the amount of money they have in groups of pennies, nickels, and dimes. In this money lesson plan, students then count up the amounts they have and exchange money amounts.
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Comparing and Ordering Greater Numbers
Students line up the digits of the numbers they are comparing in the correct manner. For this comparing numbers lesson, students learn to line numbers up correctly on a place value chart before comparing them. Students then answer...
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Your Food Dollar (and Cents)
Students examine where their food dollars go while recognizing coins and making change. They identify their favorite foods, receive one dollar, and take away amounts for each person involved in the production of their food dollar.
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Ponzi? An April Fool's Day History and Economics Lesson Plan
Learners explore the concept of a Ponzi Scheme. In this economics lesson, students invest in a product called Thin-Cups. Learners invest money in this product over the course of a couple weeks. Students discover how a Ponzi Scheme works...
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A Way to Wealth: Understanding Interest and Investments
Money motivates! Help young bankers understand how math plays a part in investing. Give learners math practice while instilling real-world financial literacy skills.
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Money Makes the World Go 'Round
Young scholars examine what a basic unit of currency means and how it affects world finances.
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One Vs. One Hundred
Students explore the concept of place value. They differentiate between digits and their values as it related to addition and subtraction. Through the use of technology and manipulatives students investigate the place value of digits by...
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Adding Pennies, Nickels and Dimes
Learners add pennies, nickels and dimes and organize the coins to display a variety of price values from real life examples. They discuss the importance of money in the day-to-day world.
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Saving Makes Cents
Students identify ways families save money. In this financial instructional activity, students read the book A Chair for My Mother and discuss ways to save money. Students identify coin values and practice counting money.
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I'll Have an Order of Subtraction Please!
Students explore number values by completing consumer math worksheets. In this math functions activity, students identify the use of a decimal in numbers and the place values that are represented when dealing with money. Students...
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Riddle Me Cents!
Students use their creativity and logic skills as well as their knowledge of coin values and history to solve a variety of riddles. The lesson prompts students to compose their own riddles, exchange them with classmates, and solve them.
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Two of Everything
Students listen to story Two of Everything, illustrate coins they would put into the Magic Pot using paper and pencil, and solve Magic Pot riddles by viewing slide show and predicting coin totals. Students then create table listing...
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Super Cents
Second graders study money amounts less than a dollar. In this math activity, 2nd graders practice counting coins. Students read various stories and discuss how money was used in the stories.
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Get Ready, Get Set, Squeeze!
Students explore coin value and count coin combinations. In this money counting and social studies lesson, students read The Coin Counting Book by Rozanne Lanczak Williams and practice counting money and making change for a lemonade...
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Trading Faces
Students use addition to determine values of coin combinations. They play a game where they come up with possible trades: two nickels for a dime and complete a tally worksheet. There are other lessons in this unit.
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Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!
Fifth graders practice using money in everyday situations. They use their addition and subtraction skills as they work in cooperative groups to solve problems involving decimals.
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Pat Brisson's Benny's Pennies
Learners listen to the book, "Benny's Pennies" and conduct math and language arts lessons to go along with the book. They demonstrate their ability to count pennies, understand proper sequence, and rewrite a story using different...
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Beyond the Checkbook: Choices of Payment Methods
Learners explore different payment methods. In this math lesson plan, students discuss the difference between writing a check and paying online. They will compare and contrast and present their data to the class.
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In the Bag!
Students calculate how many quarters are in a $1,000 bag (after learning the dollar value of filled coin bags). They explain their problem-solving strategy using pictures, numbers, equations, and/or words.
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Made Round To Go Round
In this lesson students investigate what it would cost to furnish one room of their choice by shopping on the Internet. Both Australian and American dollars are to be given for each item to demonstrate the difference between two...
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Economy Introduction: Jack and the Bank Stock
Third graders explore the functions of money. In this economics lesson plan, 3rd graders read Jack and the Beanstalk to discover the three main functions of money.
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KINDNESS
Students ponder about the importance of kindness to each other and how that value affects others as well as the community to which they live in. They brainstorm and discuss the meaning of a rhyme adapted from John Bunyan as well.
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Making $ents
Second graders complete several activities that give them opportunities to practice and model strategies that help them count money. They read The Penny Pot storybook; they play a trading game with various coins. They participate in a...
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Periodic Table of the Elements
Middle schoolers experiment with transition metals. For this transition metals lesson students find the common properties of transition metals and conduct an experiment using one of them. Middle schoolers then answer...