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Kindergarten · Social Studies · Unit 7 of 9

Money & Work

Coins, jobs, goods and services

What your child practices

US coins and what they are worth, why people use money, jobs and volunteers in the community, and the difference between goods and services.

Alaska content standards learning standard: SS.K.1.11.1; SS.K.4.11.1 · goods and services, and how people work to support their families

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. People work to earn money.
  2. Goods are things you can hold. Services are jobs done for you.
  3. A penny is 1 cent. A dollar bill is paper money.

Example: Which coin is worth 1 cent? Pennies are worth 1 cent each. Answer: a penny

Money & Work in Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 7 of 9 in Kindergarten Social Studies, after My Jobs, Rules & Leaders and before Days, Weeks & Months.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which one is a service?

    • a toy car
    • an apple
    • a bus ride

  2. Question 2

    Which is worth more, a dime or a penny?

    • they are the same
    • a penny
    • a dime

  3. Question 3

    Which coin is worth the most?

    • a nickel
    • a quarter
    • a dime

  4. Question 4

    A loaf of bread is a…

    • job
    • service
    • good

  5. Question 5

    Where do many grown-ups get money?

    • from the rain
    • from their jobs
    • from trees

  6. Question 6

    Which coins make 25 cents?

    • five nickels
    • five pennies
    • two dimes

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