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Home / Kids and Teens / School Time / Social Studies / Economics / Money / Currency
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- American Currency Exhibit - This online exhibit of U.S. money presents the history as well as photographs of past and present bank notes.
www.frbsf.org/currency
- Change Maker - An educational game where the player must calculate the change given for a money purchase. Currencies from the United States, Canada, Austraulia, United Kingdom, and Mexico are available.
www.funbrain.com/cashreg
- Counterfeit Detection - Simple guide to determining whether various types of currency are real or fake.
www.indigoimage.com/count/index.html
- Currency Gallery - See what paper money looks like in different countries of the world.
www.gilmer.net/currency/gallery
- Currency Museum of the Bank of Canada - Explores the evolution and history of money throughout the world. In English and French.
www.bank-banque-canada.ca/museum
- Dollars and Cents: Fundamental Facts about U.S. Money - Information and trivia from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
www.frbatlanta.org/publica/brochure/fundfac/html/home.html
- FAQs about United States Paper Currency - All you ever wanted to know about US paper money: how it is produced, whose picture gets chosen, how much is printed, trivia questions; from the US Dept. of the Treasury.
www.treas.gov/opc/opc0034.html
- Japanese Money - Shows what coins and bills look like in Japan.
www.k111.k12.il.us/king/japan18b.htm
- Money Central Station - Interactive games, money counting exercises, and trivia questions about money.
www.moneyfactory.com/kids/start.html
- NOVA Online: Secrets of Making Money - Takes a look at the new U.S. currency, with interactive exploration of both new and old features.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/moolah
- Pomp: The True Story of the Baby on the Sacagawea Dollar - E-book tells the story of the baby born on the historic Lewis and Clark Expedition who would grow up to explore the American West.
pompstory.home.mindspring.com
- Royal Canadian Mint - Official site of the agency which produces Canada's money. In English and French.
www.mint.ca
- The Liberty Bill Project - Children across the country are asking Congress to put an abridged version of the U.S. Constitution on the back of U.S. one dollar bills.
hcps2.hanover.k12.va.us/lms/libbill.htm
- The MegaPenny Project - Find out what a thousand pennies, a million, or even one trillion would look like, how much they would weigh, what they would be worth, and how far they could reach.
www.kokogiak.com/megapenny
- The U.S. Mint's Site for Kids - The awesome history of coins and how the mint makes money. Interactive clubhouse for kids and teachers includes cartoons, history, and news.
www.usmint.gov/kids
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