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Dollar Word

For Teachers K
Students review the value of coins prior to adding up values to equal one dollar. Letters of the alphabet are assigned monetary values and students use calculators to add up the value of a word. Students work with a partner to try and...
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Why is Sacagawea on the Golden Dollar?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students research the decision to place the image of Sacagawea on the Golden Dollar, then write persuasive essays either defending or opposing this decision.
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Create a Hundred Dollar Bill

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a $100 bill. For this bills lesson plan, students draw and create their own version of a $100 bill, and call it a "fundred" dollar bill. They fill in a worksheet that has blanks where they can fill in  what the bill...
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Design a New Dollar Coin

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students create a design for a new coin after researching people who have impacted history. Students must write a persuasive essay about why this person should be memorialized on the dollar coin and present their person to the class.
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Life of a Dollar Bill

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine the basic need for money and the circular flow of resources between households, businesses, government, and financial institutions. They discover how money gets into circulation and how it facilitates the production of...
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Your Food Dollar (and Cents)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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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A Dollar Goes A Long Way

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Investigate life along the Old Spanish Trail! They visit websites and identify the history and environment. They create journals, dramatic enactments, and maps to discover the role individuals played in society. They also explore the...
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How Many Coins?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this counting money activity, students count the sets of coins and draw a line to the box of coins that will make a dollar. The coins on this page are dimes and nickels.
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Million Dollar Project

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students calculate how they will spend a million dollars.  In this millionaire math instructional activity, students complete a worksheet and then make a poster of how they would spend a million dollars.  Each item and its cost...
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Money: Count Pennies, Save a Dollar

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners determine how to make the largest sum of money using the least amount of coins. For this mixed currency lesson, students listen to a reading of If You Made a Million by David M. Schwartz before participating in money counting...
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Pardon me. Do You Have exChange for a Dollar?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students are familiar with United States currency-dollar and cents. They are asked to compare it with currency of another country. Students explore currencies of various countries using the Internet, video, and hands-on activities. ...
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Counting Money Worksheet

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this money activity, students count the four sets of coins and calculate the total amount. Students write the amount down on the given lines. The total amount goes up to one dollar.
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Spelling Profits

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this spelling worksheet, students write their spelling words and then link each letter to be a dollar amount and find the value of the words. Students write words for 6 problems.
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Minting New Thoughts

For Teachers K - 6th
Consider a new metaphor when discussing positive thinking with your learners by having them "recycle" their negative, poison thoughts and "minting" them into positive ones using these dollar bill printables!
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Making Change - Bills And Coins

For Students 2nd - 4th
Here is an interactive worksheet that allows learners to practice counting change with bills and coins, make change for a dollar, and practice their subtraction skills. The bills used are ones, fives, tens, twenties, and fifties. A good...
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How Much?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
It's time to go back over all that your class has learned about decimals, fractions, and percentages! To do so, individuals solve story problems that involve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with decimals, explain how...
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Using Foreign Exchange Rates

For Students 10th - 12th
In this Using Foreign Exchange Rates worksheet, students use tables with exchange rates to calculate answers to problems, then answer questions about what may impact the exchange rate.
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Penny

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the concept of equivalency. In this equivalents lesson, students use pennies to show equivalency as they divide them into groups. Students also convert the pencils into decimals and fractions.
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Money

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders show combinations for $1.00. In this dollar combinations lesson plan, 2nd graders use nickels, dimes, and quarters to model and count combinations equaling $1.00.
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The Journey of Sacagawea

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the life of Sacagawea, the exceptional woman chosen to appear on the Golden Dollar, and write journal entries based on their research.
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Extraordinary Compilations

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Pupils discuss and record why people have various types of collections. They interpret the class collection of information then use details about the Morgan Dollar to understand what collection characteristics it may have.
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Silent Symbols Speak Loudly: Icons, Brands & You

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students view and discuss visual symbols around them every day, analyze symbols on United States one dollar bill, explore variety of meanings of same symbols depending on context and culture, and create their own money with symbols that...
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Money Values Worksheet Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students determine how many dollars, quarters, nickels, dimes, and pennies equals a given dollar amount.
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Making Change for $1 And Identifying Different Bills

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
For this making change for one dollar and identifying different bills worksheet, students color the coins needed to make exactly $1.00 on six different lines. Students also examine how to utilize a chart to solve money problems.