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Careers in travel: Working with currency exchange

In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.5

In this lesson for grades six and seven, students will learn about foreign currency exchange rates and will understand the importance of currency exchange in the travel industry.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Social Studies)

By Mandy Matlock.

Confederate currency: An inflation simulation

Using primary sources from the Documenting the American South collection, students will engage in a brief simulation of inflation during the Civil War while learning about issues faced on the home front in North Carolina.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)

By Lewis Nelson.

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Changes in change

This lesson begins with students visiting a website that gives them practice in counting money. The second site goes one step further in that students are given opportunities to make change for make-believe purchases. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)

Provided by: EconEdLink