👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective
Students will learn how money can be used to help others, how to compare small donation amounts, and how giving affects a simple budget.

Vocabulary
donate, share, save, goal, choice, help

Teaching Notes

• Explain that donating means giving money to help someone else.
• Use examples students understand: helping classmates, school drives, or community pets.
• Show how even small amounts add up when people work together.
• Compare choices: save, spend, or donate.
• Encourage kindness and empathy in decision-making.

🧒 Student Worksheet

Concept and Helping Material

Donating means giving money to help others.
Sometimes we choose to donate instead of buying things for ourselves.
Even small amounts, like $1 or $2, can make a difference.

Hands-On Experiment or Activities

What You Need:
Play money, donation jar, cards with donation goals ($3, $5, $7)

What You Do:

1. Students start with $5 each.
2. They choose to donate $1 or $2 at a time.
3. Count the group’s total donation.
4. Compare how close the class is to the donation goal.
5. Talk about how it feels to help others.

Vocabulary and Definition

• — to give money to help
• — to give some to others
• — something you try to reach
• — picking what to do

Words to Learn

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Questions to Answer

Story:
Liam has $5.
He hears that the school is raising money to buy books for the library.
He chooses to donate $2, then later donates $1 more.

1. How much money does Liam start with?

2. How much does he donate the first time?

3. How much does he donate the second time?

4. How much has he donated in total?

5. How much money does Liam have left?

6. What is the school raising money for?

7. Why is donating helpful?

🧮 Finance Math Practice

1. You donate $1 twice. Total donated?

2. You have $5 and donate $2. Money left?

3. A donation goal is $6. Your class has $4. How much more is needed?

4. You donate $3 from $5. Enough left to buy a $2 snack?

5. You save $4 and donate $1. Total used to donate?

6. You donate $2 and $2. Total?

7. Goal is $8. Class raised $5. Need?

8. You have $3. You donate $1. Left?

9. You want to donate $3 but only have $2. Can you?

10. You donate $1, then $1, then $2. Total?

Reflection

• How does donating help others?

• What is something you might donate to?