Florida SS.K.E.1.2

Social StudiesKindergartenBeginning Economics

The Standard

Recognize that United States currency comes in different forms.

Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards for Social Studies · Economics

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify coins and paper bills as forms of U.S. money. They sort examples by form and describe visible differences, such as shape, material, and size.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can point to a coin and a bill and explain that both are money. The student can separate pictures of U.S. money from cards, coupons, and toy tokens.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think only coins or only bills count as money. They may confuse credit cards, gift cards, coupons, or arcade tokens with U.S. currency.
How to Assess It: Show pictures of a penny, dollar bill, credit card, and toy token. Ask students to circle the U.S. money and name each form.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a tray of play coins and replica bills to sort into two labeled hoops: coins and bills.
Ask, “How are coins and bills alike, and how are they different?” Record student answers on a class chart.
Play Money Match by having students match picture cards showing coins and bills to the labels coin or bill.
Set up a classroom store where students choose either a play coin or replica bill to pay for an item.

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