Back to School and Beyond: Money and Numismatics for Kindergarten Through 12th Grade

Children of all ages can learn about currency with activities. Here are some fun activities for your child to do to learn everything they need to know about our currency today as well as little ones practicing their memory skills. There is something here for everyone from Kindergarten through 12th grade for back to school and beyond. Some of the activities require Macromedia Flash Player (http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ ), and you should have your web browser configured to play embedded sound files. It is also recommended that you use Internet Explorer 6.0 or later to play the HTML version.

Fun Money Activities from The Department of Treasury Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Website:http://www.bep.treas.gov/newmoney/main.cfm/learning/fun

• Design Your Own Bill
• Treasury Trivia Hunt
• To Catch a Counterfeit
• Printable Money Match
• Interactive Money CD-Rom (download in zip file and extract)
• Makin' Money with Cowboy Buck
• Fun Facts & Trivia

Design Your Own Dollar Bill

Children can design their own dollar bill very easily to print and color. It is very simple and fun for your children. First you will select it you want short, medium, or long hair; what type of eyes you would like on your fun money dollar bill; and if you want a smile, yummy expression, or full lips. You then can select Make my bill and your money bill will show up in black and white. You can now print your dollar bill and color them will crayons, colored pencils or markers.

Treasury Trivia Time

Children can test their knowledge about the government's new currency with a fun question and answer trivia game. After you launch the game, you will answer five multiple-choice questions to reach the treasure chest and find out what is inside. After you play the game, you can try again and then send an invitation to a friend to play.

To Catch a Counterfeit

Children can familiarize themselves with the new security features. Each of the three tools on the right side of the page will highlight a different security feature. Children will attempt to figure out which bill in counterfeit. When you think you know which one, click on the whit box to the right of the bill you've chosen to find out if you are correct.

Printable Money Match

This is a fun children's printable money match game where you must find matching pair of cards that have the same drawings or pictures. You will need to look, think, and remember. The children can play this money match game by themselves, with their parents, with friends, and with teams. You will need to print out the cards (it is recommended that you print them out on a heavy card stock so they don't tear easily), cut the cards and maybe let the children become familiarize with the money cards before mixing them up.

Playing by yourself to help your memory skills: Place all the cards face down and turn them over 2 at a time to find a match. Keep doing this until you find all the matches.

Playing with Parents or Friends: Mix up the cards and place them face down in even rows. Next, Figure out which player is going first by flipping a coin or playing rock-paper-scissors. Each player takes a turn and turns over two cards, one at a time to find a matching pair. If the cards match, the player will take the matching cards and set them aside and will take another turn. If they don't match, the player puts them back exactly where they are face down and the next person will take their turn until all matches are found. The winner is the person with the most matches.

The instructions page also has some ideas for younger children.

Interactive Money CD-Rom (download in zip file and extract) New Color of Money Download

This CD-Rom has educational activities that are related to the history, security features and production of the redesigned currency. Join the two agents, Agent Cash and Agent Bank on a fun and exciting tour through the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. It is very easy to download the zip file and extract it. You will find so much information about the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

Makin' Money with Cowboy Buck

This is an 18-page PDF activity book that you can print. It has puzzles, mazes and many other challenging adventures presented by the BEP's Western Currency Facility.

Fun Facts & Trivia

This page has some fun questions about Fun Facts & Trivia along with the answers.

FED 101

Website: http://www.federalreserveeducation.org/fed101/index.htm

The Federal Reserve Today has a lot of information on history, the structure, monetary policy, banking supervision, and financial services. After you learn all about the currency, you can take some quizzes to see what you remember. You will also find information about the life of a check, the life of a dollar bill, where's the money, and games. Some of the games are Fed Match, Word Search, and Fed Clue. There is so much to navigate on The Federal Reserve Today website.

Practical Money Skills for Life

Website: http://practicalmoneyskills.com/foreducators/

This website has lesson plans for parents, teachers, and any educator. The website has many resources including free lesson plans, profiles of inspiring teachers, discussion of relevant economic topics, and much more. There are lesson plans broken down into categories that include young children, children, teens, college, and special needs.

Make Your Own Money A Web-quest for 10^th - 12^th Grade economics Art

Website: https://mail.nvnet.org/~cooper_j/money/

This is a great website for 10^th, 11^th, and 12^th graders. They will learn all about money. What is money? Where does it come from? How does it get its value? How does it reflect what the community values, conceptually and artistically? Does anyone or any group have enough of it? This web quest will make your start thinking about money as more than just a way to get things, but as a way to make things. You can explore your thoughts using the online reflective writing process. The web cast will exhibit all of the features of true web quest with an introduction, task, process, conclusion, credits, resources, additional Resources, evaluation rubric, and teacher page. Janice Cooper designed the web cast with Nicole Cole, Anita Parciasepe, and Ed Pasino, Northern Valley Regional High School, Old Tappan, New Jersey.