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Cha-Ching: I Make Money Too

From Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids · 2013

Cha-Ching: I Make Money Too
3 min3rd4th5thSocial Studies
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Summary

In this Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids song, money can earn more money through saving and investing, so your money can 'work' for you. 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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All ages

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Teaching resources

Discussion questions

Discussion

Use these after the song to talk through the money idea it teaches.

  1. How can money 'make money' on its own?
  2. What role does a bank play in helping money grow?
  3. Why do you have to be patient for investing to work?

Quick work-a-long

Money words: invest, interest, bank, grow, patient.

Try it: Explain in one or two sentences what it means for your money to 'work for you.'