Series

Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids

18 episodes

Three-minute animated music videos performed by the Cha-Ching band, one song per money idea. The set opens with the four things a person can do with money (earn it, save it, spend it, donate it), then pulls each apart: what a budget is and why it gets written before the spending starts, how savings grow once a bank adds interest, why a card is still real money even when no coins change hands, what an entrepreneur actually does, what charity means. Short enough for a morning meeting and consistent enough to run weekly. Grades K-5.

what this series covers

What Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids covers

18 episodes in the library, tagged for K–5th. Heaviest coverage: Social Studies and Social-Emotional Learning. Between them they line up with 13 distinct standards across 2 frameworks.

Episodes per grade

K: 6
1st: 9
2nd: 17
3rd: 18
4th: 18
5th: 11

Episodes per subject

Social Studies: 18
Social-Emotional Learning: 1

Social Studies (C3 / NCSS) 12

D2.Eco.2.K-2Identify the benefits and costs of making various personal decisions.
D2.Eco.10.K-2Explain why people save.
D2.Eco.1.3-5Compare the benefits and costs of individual choices.
D2.Eco.6.K-2Explain how people earn income.
D2.Eco.2.3-5Identify positive and negative incentives that influence the decisions people make.
D2.Eco.1.K-2Explain how scarcity necessitates decision making.

+ 6 more

D2.Eco.10.3-5Explain what interest rates are.
D2.Eco.7.3-5Explain how profits influence sellers in markets.
D2.Eco.3.3-5Identify examples of the variety of resources (human capital, physical capital, and natural resources) that are used to produce goods and services.
D2.Eco.5.3-5Explain the role of money in making exchange easier
D2.Eco.6.3-5Explain the relationship between investment in human capital, productivity, and future incomes.
D2.Eco.9.3-5Describe the role of other financial institutions in an economy.