MONEY IDENTIFICATIONBy Grace Lotrecchiano

Grade: Kindergarten

10/15/10

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MONEY Money is important to our

society because it helps people to get things that they need like food, shelter, and water.

Before money, long ago, people would trade or “barter” for these things with other goods. Americans would trade animal skins, including deer and elk bucks!

Each country has different kinds of money. In the US we have Dollars.

COINS Coins are the smallest amounts of money that we have.

They are made at a factory called a mint. Birth of a Coin There are five different coins that are each worth a

different amount of money

Penny – Pennies are made of copper and are worth one cent each. One dollar is made up of 100 pennies

Dime – Dimes are silver and are worth 10 cents. One dollar is made up of 10 dimes

Nickel – Nickels are also silver and are worth 5 cents. One dollar is made up of 20 nickels.

Quarter – Quarters are silver and are wroth 25 cents. One dollar is made up of 4 quarters.

Half-Dollar – The half dollar is fifty cents – one half of a dollar.

COINS Different types of coins can be added

together to make dollars too. – Each of these sets is one dollar:

A

B

C

PAPER MONEY

Paper money is referred to as “dollar bills” or “bills”

Bills come in several different amounts: 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100

One dollar is made up of one hundred cents. Coins add up to make dollars.

One Dollar = One Hundred Cents

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT MONEY

Paper money is created out of cloth so that people cannot make fake copies.

They used to make a 2 dollar bill! But they stopped making it in 1966 – even though there are no new ones, you can still use old ones to buy things.

The Sacagawea dollar is a gold colored coin that is worth one dollar.

Since 1999, the backs of quarters have been changed to pictures that represent each of the 50 US states. Different ones come out every year.

POSTTEST QUESTION 1 Which set of coins equals one dollar or one

hundred cents, A or B?

A

B

25 25 2525

25 25 25

CORRECT!

Yes!

= 100 cents or 1 dollar!

TRY AGAIN!

Sorry,

It does not equal one dollar. Four quarters equals one whole dollar.

= 75 cents

POSTTEST QUESTION 2

Do you know how many pennies are in two(2) dollars?

200 pennies100 pennies10 pennies

One Cent

CORRECT!

There are 200 pennies in two dollars!

TRY AGAIN

Sorry, that is the wrong answer!

Try the question again!

WEBSITE REFERENCES

http://www.usmint.gov/kids/ http://www.childrensmuseum.org/special_exh

ibits/moneyville/pop5.htm

EXIT

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