Students research contributions to American culture and technological progress through Benjamin Franklin's quotes and inventions. They also analyze research in order to design a coin honoring Ben Franklin's contributions.

Students practice filling in the missing number of a series.

Students read an article about counterfeiting and complete worksheets about it. In groups, They compile lists of punishments for various crimes and explain their reasons.

Second graders define the term culture and are exposed to a variety of cultures from around the world. They read books, play Native American games, develop a class book that examines their own culture and, after examining currencies from...

Students, after reviewing the vocabulary words on the board and being shown several examples, in pairs practice naming the months, days of the week and their abbreviations in order.

Students engage in a lesson introducing them to the concept of return on investment, or ROI. Return on investment is a basic principle that should be understood before investing money.

Students engage in a lesson introducing them to the concept of Risk and Return. Risk and return is a basic principle that should be understood before investing money. They utilize an interactive worksheet imbedded in this plan.

Third graders spend varying amounts of money and shop without over spending. They complete a worksheet based on grocery store flyer ads and the amount of money they are budgeted. They create their own questions about the grocery flyer...

Second graders discuss Ireland including its politics, education system, agriculture, etc . . . They locate Ireland on a map, and list facts about the country. They compare Irish money to American money.

For this pie chart worksheet, students use the pie chart graph to count the money Adam made in the Bread Shop. Students complete 10 questions.

Twelfth graders explore different ways of shopping to try to save money.  In this economics lesson, 12th graders participate in a game that explains various shopping tips.  Students generate other shopping tips as a group to...

Young scholars participate in a "Jeopardy" review game. In this review instructional activity, students are divided into two teams and are asked to pick a question for a specific amount of play money. The game board can be drawn on a...

Students explore saving and investing money.  In this middle school personal finance instructional activity, students define and use investment vocabulary, explore compound interest and its effect of savings, and compute simple and...

Third graders distinguish between savings and spending. Students graph out a variety of important Economic concepts/vocabulary. They set up an imaginary job to save money and spend money.

Students explore the 50 State Quarters program and how it represents diversity and unity of the United States. In pairs, they examine quarter designs to gain information about the culture of each state. Students create charts to...

In this math story problems instructional activity, students solve 8 varied problems that include: calculator work, making a list, money, area, and ordered pairs.

In this money/quarter activity, learners look at pictures of items with price tags attached, then circle the correct combination of coins that match the price.

Students participate in various poem-related lessons to learn how they can make a difference in the lives of people they don't know. For this poetry lesson, students discover that this pound a poem competition is about raising money for...

Pupils practice counting by 10s, 5s, and 1s in order to prepare for counting and adding the values of coins.

Students engage with an early money worksheet for learning about making money. They see how earning money can be related to doing chores. They utilizie an interactive worksheet imbedded in this plan.

Practice listening skills with the novel Max Malone Makes a Million written by Charlotte Herman. Read a chapter a day and answer daily questions such as predicting how Max makes his money.

Students notice lexical items as chunks of language. They use grammar of multi words and are introduced to a lexical set connected to money. Students are given a chance to peer teach. They are encouraged to use dictionaries.

In this consumer math worksheet, students count the number of pennies that are shown in each of 5 sets. They write the number of pennies up to 8 on the line next to the sets.

In this probability instructional activity, 5th graders work with various coins. Students study the given picture and respond to 10 questions about the likelihood of pulling out each of the different coins.