Cha-Ching: Invisible Money
From Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids · 2013
3 min2nd3rd4th5thSocial Studies
Summary
In this Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids song, cards and digital payments are 'invisible money' — it's still real money even when you can't see the coins and bills. 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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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Use these after the song to talk through the money idea it teaches.
- Why does the song call card payments 'invisible money'?
- How is paying with a card the same as paying with cash?
- Why is it easy to lose track of invisible money?
Quick work-a-long
Money words: invisible money, card, digital, real, track.
Try it: List two ways people pay without cash, and one way to keep track of invisible money.