Money

Once Upon a Dime

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For organic farmer Truman Worth, money does grow on trees. Readers calculate the changing value of his crop.

Twenty-five pennies, four dimes, two nickels, and one quarter… hmm…

A pocketful of coins! Who can make heads or tails of it? YOU can with The Coin Counting Book. Change just adds up with this bankable book illustrated with real money. Counting, adding, and identifying American currency from one penny to one dollar is exciting and easy. When you have counted all your money, you can decide to save it or spend it.

Follow Your Money

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Discover the trail your money takes as it goes to pay for everything including the raw materials used to make a product, the workers who produce it, and the advertisers who promote it.
Humorous illustrations demystify the process by providing a visual breakdown of all the elements involved in monetary transactions. Accessible and fun, Follow Your Money is a vital introduction to the way money flows.

Money at the Store

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Teaches money and counting concepts through a story about two boys who go to the grocery store to buy items to make ice cream sundaes.

The Year Money Grew on Trees

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Copies: 7

In early 1980's New Mexico, thirteen-year-old Jackson Jones recruits his cousins and sisters to help tend an elderly neighbor's neglected apple orchard for the chance to make big money and, perhaps, to own the orchard.

Author:

Aaron R. Hawkins

Lexile:

810L

Jungle Coins

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Jungle Coins is an engaging, easy to use educational app that teaches kids coin math in multiple languages. For iPad only.

Grade Level:

Primary

Content Area:

Math

The Ancient Egyptian Economy

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Readers explore different aspects of Ancient Egypt's economy, including the importance of the sea to this civilization's economy and about how papermaking was an art essential to Egypt's culture. Students will gain an understanding of how the culture used money and which trades flourished during this period of history.

The Money We'll Save

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Copies: 7

When Pa brings a turkey poult home to fatten for Christmas dinner, he assures Ma that it will be no trouble since it can live in a box by the stove and eat table scraps--and just think of the money we'll save! But it's not quite so simple to raise a turkey in a tiny flat in a nineteenth-century New York City tenement. Can Pa and the children manage the willful and growing Alfred and keep the neighbors happy until Christmas? Pa finds a solution for every difficulty--until he encounters one that threatens to ruin Christmas completely.

Author:

Brock Cole

Lexile:

AD780L

Stash That Cash: Budgeting (Saving and Investing for Teens) (2006)

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A teen with a job faces all kinds of decisions about how to use that paycheck: go out to dinner or save for a car? A new iPod or college tuition? Spring break at the beach or a long-term investment? Program introduces the concepts of money management and financial planning for the future in a fun, easy-to-understand manner.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

00:21

Stash That Cash: Budgeting (Saving and Investing for Teens)

Stock Market Basics (2004)

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This program is about the basics of the stock market. What is the difference between a stock and a bond? Where does your money go when you buy a stock? What is a dividend and why do some profitable companies refuse to pay them? What are risk and volatility and how can an individual buy stocks or mutual funds. Explore the "efficient market theory" and take a random walk down Wall Street.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:24

Money

Stash That Cash: Budgeting (Saving and Investing for Teens) (2006)

Stock Market Basics (2004)

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