1. MONEY IDENTIFICATION
By Grace Lotrecchiano
Grade: Kindergarten
10/15/10

2. MENU
 Content
 Posttest Questions
 References
 End

3. 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.

4. 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
Half-Dollar –
The half dollar
is fifty cents –
one half of a
dollar.

5. COINS
 Different types of coins can be added together to
make dollars too. – Each of these sets is one dollar:
A
B
C

6. 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

7. 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.

8. POSTTEST QUESTION 1
 Which set of coins equals one dollar or one
hundred cents, A or B?
A
B
25 25 25 25
25 25 25

9. CORRECT!
 Yes!
= 100 cents or
1 dollar!

10. TRY AGAIN!
 Sorry,
It does not equal one dollar. Four quarters equals
one whole dollar.
= 75 cents

11. POSTTEST QUESTION 2
 Do you know how many pennies are in two(2)
dollars?
200 pennies
100 pennies
10 pennies
One Cent

12. CORRECT!
 There are 200 pennies in two dollars!

13. TRY AGAIN
 Sorry, that is the wrong answer!
 Try the question again!

14. WEBSITE REFERENCES
 http://www.usmint.gov/kids/
 http://www.childrensmuseum.org/special_exhibits/m
oneyville/pop5.htm

15. EXIT
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