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A Dollar for Penny
Summary: This book shows students how someone can save money in order to buy something they want. Penny has a lemonade stand and sells each cup for a penny. As more people buy her lemonade, she raises the price from 1 cent to 50 cents. The book also reinforces how different coins can be added and exchanged. She combined all her coins that add up to 100 cents,1 dollar. Then she uses the money she earned to buy a birthday card for her mom.
Classroom Usage: This can be used in our unit as a read aloud during the community helpers lessons of the community unit. The teacher can ask the students what they notice as the story goes on. Then, at the end the students can make a text to self connection, if they ever earned money and saved money to buy something they wanted.

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Something Good
Summary: This book by Robert Munsch, describes the difference between wants and needs at the grocery store.  Tyya goes grocery shopping with her dad and everything her dad buys she says its no good. He buys bread, milk, cheese and eggs, but Tyya wants ice cream, candy and cookies.  She tried to convince her dad to buy something good and eventually he gets upset and tells her not to move. A saleslady passes by Tyya and thinks she is a doll. She put a price sticker on her nose. Multiple people try to buy Tyya but she yells and then ran away. By the end the the book her dad is forced to buy something good after all.

Classroom Usage: This is another great read aloud to introduce wants and needs and what is truly important to spend money on. As students listen, they can identify wants and needs from prior knowledge. I can have the students touch their head for every want and touch their nose for every need. I can also stop half way through the book and ask the students to make a text to self connection about when they go to the store with their parents.

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Money Online Games
https://www.abcya.com/games/learning_coins
https://www.abcya.com/games/counting_money
Summary: In these online interactive games, students can sort or count coins. In one game students can sort and identify the different coins into different groups based on their value. In the other game, students can practice counting money.
Classroom Usage: These games can be in our unit during the community helpers lessons, to reinforce the value of money. The games can be used during a whole class lesson on the smart board. Students can practice using what they know about coins to sort them, or add them up to equal a given value. They can also be used as an anchor activity for students who finish early and they can work independently or in partnerships. The games have different levels, so as students become skilled at a certain level, they can challenge them selves with harder levels.

Pebble Go- Interactive Books
https://www.pebblego.com/modules/5/categories/5006/articles/5178
Summary: On this website there are a variety of interactive books that would be a valuable resource for this unit.
There are books about wants and needs, earning money, saving money, making choices and jobs in the community. Every book has a feature to have the book read to the students, with picture support. There is also a vocabulary support feature. Students can click on certain words that are in bold and they will be provided with the meaning.
Classroom Usage: My school district has an account with PebbleGo and I use it frequently, in my classroom. This resource can be used for multiple lessons in our unit. The interactive books can be used as a whole class read aloud, or as an anchor activity, students can read or listen to these books independently once finished with their independent work.

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Brain-pop Video- Needs and Wants
Summary: In this video, Moby and Annie introduce what needs and wants are.  As well as the idea that not everyone has the same needs. They provide students with examples of possible wants and needs in their community. They also explore how someone can make money to afford to buy what they need and save money for what they want. The fact that someone must spend their money on things they need before things they want is emphasized. The video also identifies needs and wants that are goods and services. Moby and Annie introduce what  goods and services are and who provides them for us.

Classroom Usage: My school district has an account with Brainpop and Brainpop Jr, so I use these online resources regularly in my classroom. There are other videos on different subjects that would be very useful for this unit. This particular video could be used to introduce needs and wants to students during a whole group lesson. Students can sit on the rug and watch the video, I can stop the video once or twice and check for understanding or have the students turn and talk to share their thinking or make a connection. After the video, there is an option to take a quiz, students can do this as a group and take turns going up to the smart board to select their answers. I will pick the first person to select the answer for us and then the student who selected the previous answer will call on a classmate to answer the next question.

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I Want, I Need Song
Summary: This song is a catchy way to reinforce the difference between needs and wants. It acknowledges that sometimes wants can seem like needs because their friend has it. It also includes the importance of spending money carefully, saving money and making a plan to buy something they want.

Classroom Usage:
This song can be used during a whole group lesson as a discussion starter. After the students watch the video on the rug, I can ask them what is most important to spend money on, and what they should do if they really want something. This is a great resource to introduce a budget or plan when spending money to the students.

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"I Want, I Need" (Lyric Video) - The Disclosures - [Financial Education for Kids]