Second Grade Lesson Plans

Making Choices
Students share the book Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday, by Judith Viorst, to learn about opportunity costs, goods and services, incentives, and saving. They complete worksheets on decision making and choice and play a sorting game with goods and services.

Scarcity and Choice
Students share the book A Bargain for Frances, by Russell Hoban, to learn about scarcity, decision making, and exchange. They complete a worksheet on decision making and choice, and play exchanging games.

Savings and Budget
Students share the book The Case of the Shruken Allowance, by Joanne Rocklin, to learn about labor, earned income, saving, creating budgets, and equivalent amounts of money. They complete worksheets on labor and budget.

Buying
Students share the book Money Troubles (Little Bill Books for Beginning Readers), by Bill Cosby, to learn about benefits and cost. They complete worksheets on skip counting money to one dollar.

Market Prices
Students share the book Arthur's Funny Money, by Lillian Hoban, to learn about business, price, and labor. They complete worksheets on projected income.

Money versus Trade
Students share the book Ox-Cart Man, by Donald Hall, to learn about barter and trade. They complete worksheets on the disadvantages of the barter system and play a game of money exchange in a market simulation.

Managing My Money
Students share the book The Berenstain Bears' Dollars and Sense, by Stan and Jan Berenstain, to learn about money management and checking accounts.

Counting Change and Changing Coins
Students share the book The Penny Pot, by Stuart J. Murphy, to learn about choices, producers and consumers, and counting money.

Keeping Track of Our Money
Students share the book How the Second Grade Got $8,205.50 to Visit the Statue of Liberty, by Nathan Zimelman, to learn about managing money and using record-keeping tools such as ledgers to track income, expenses, and balances.