Cha-Ching: Cha-Cha-Choices
From Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids · 2016
3 min1st2nd3rd4thSocial Studies
Summary
In this Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids song, every time you use money you make a choice, and thinking it through leads to smarter money choices. A lively three-minute animated music video that makes a financial-literacy idea easy to drop into a morning meeting or a social studies / economics lesson for young learners.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Use these after the song to talk through the money idea it teaches.
- Why is spending money always a choice?
- How can comparing your options lead to a better choice?
- What is a money choice you have had to make?
Quick work-a-long
Money words: choice, decide, compare, cost, benefit.
Try it: Think of two things you could buy with the same money, and explain which you'd choose and why.