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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.

Maine Learning Results learning standard: Personal Finance; Global Connections · how money has value and is traded for goods and services, and how families are part of an economy

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 Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, 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: Maine Department of Education

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 coin is worth 5 cents?

    • a penny
    • a nickel
    • a dime

  2. Question 2

    Which one is paper money?

    • a penny
    • a quarter
    • a dollar bill

  3. Question 3

    Who brings letters to your home?

    • a dentist
    • a chef
    • a mail carrier

  4. Question 4

    Which one is a service?

    • a bus ride
    • a toy car
    • an apple

  5. Question 5

    Who teaches children at school?

    • a farmer
    • a teacher
    • a plumber

  6. Question 6

    Which coins make 25 cents?

    • five pennies
    • two dimes
    • five nickels

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