1-6.2 Links To Information For Teachers

Vocabulary

• bartering
• advantages and disadvantages
• different means of trading
• producing goods and services
• money as a medium of exchange
• forms of money throughout history (shells, gold, indigo, tobacco, etc)

Suggestions

• This is a beginning lesson to teach students about the use of money to buy something.
• This is a good place to make sure that students can identify coins and dollars up to $100.
• Make sure that students understand the difference between bartering/trade and purchasing something with money.
• Talk about the Native Americans and how they would trade with other tribes for what they needed because they had no money.
• First Grade Dictionary for Vocabulary

Streamline SC

• How Our Economy Works: All About Earning and Spending Money
• Learning About Money

Books

• Making Money by Abby Jackson
• Benny's Pennies by Pat Brisson
• Sam And The Lucky Money by Karen Chinn