Content Area: Career Education and Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

 

Index: 9.2E Grade 4 CPI 1

 

Standard: 9.2 - Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

 

Strand: E - Consumer and Personal Finance

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 -  The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of the value of money.

 

Grade: 4

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       Use activities from Grades K-1, H.I.P. Pocket Change found at www.usmint.gov/kids. Use activities from H.I.P. for Grades 2-3 found at www.usmint.gov/kids. Use activities from H.I.P. Pocket Change found at www.usmint.gov/kids for Grades 4-6.

 

·       See money math for kids found at http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/mar/marmoneymath.htm.

 

·       Read books such as Why Money was Invented, Follow an Ice Cream Cone Around the World, or A Money Adventure by  Neale S. Godfrey.  Discuss the main concepts in the books.

 

·       Read the book, The Story of Money by Betsy Maestro.  Explore how mediums of exchange were developed; how money came about; how money is different in other countries of the world; how money is printed; and how other forms of money are used to purchase goods and services.

 

·       Students, through math concepts, learn to identify various coins, their value, and be able to make change.

 

·       Resources: http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/LPview.cgi?core=1213