Your whole Year 2 Australian money unit, planned, printed and ready to teach.
Twelve lessons take Year 2 from naming coins and notes to running their own Class Market Day. Every lesson opens with a five-minute number talk, uses hands-on Australian money activities and finishes with an open question that has more than one answer. Students skip count coins, count mixed collections, make the same amount different ways, order prices, find change from $5 and $10, and write their own money stories. Perfect for a two to three week money unit.
What's included (25 resources):
- 00 START HERE: Unit at a Glance and What's Inside
- 01 Australian Money Program: 12 lessons with learning intentions, number talks, steps, open questions, teaching tips and an assessment page
- 02 Who's on Our Money? slides (PowerPoint and PDF), including the King and Queen heads side and Gwoya Tjungurrayi on the $2 coin
- 03 Money Word Wall
- 04 Australian Money Posters and Flashcards
- 05 Large Money Printables for the whiteboard
- 06 My Money Book: earn and spend ledger, Class Bank poster and ready-made booklets
- 07 Play Money: every coin and note
- 08 Order the Coins: cut and glue in value order
- 09 Money Bingo: repeated coins, 30 boards
- 10 Hundreds Chart for skip counting by 5s, 10s and 20s
- 11 Money Jar Flaps: lift-the-flap counting the same coins
- 12 Honey Money: spin, add and compare partner game
- 13 My Number Line: 0 to 30, 0 to 100 and $0 to $20
- 14 I Spy Money Totals: around-the-room task cards
- 15 Count and Match worksheets
- 16 My Piggy Bank craft with "I can make" slips and coin and note cut-outs
- 17 Money Bags: Aussie bush board game
- 18 Money Sort: shopping item cards, cut sheet and glue mat (cheapest to most expensive)
- 19 Menu Fun: whole-dollar menu, shopping and change
- 20 My Money Story: lift-the-flap money word problems
- 21 Money Word Problems: 24 task cards with recording sheet and answers
- 22 I Have, Who Has?: whole-class counting game
- 23 Year 2 Money Assessment with answer key
- 24 Market Day: stall signs, price tags and receipts for the big task
- 25 No-Prep Money Bingo: 16 hands-on, no-print money ideas
How the unit runs:
- Lessons 1 to 2: meet our coins and notes, and learn that bigger isn't always more.
- Lessons 3 to 5: skip count the same coins, count mixed collections from the biggest value, and make the same amount different ways.
- Lessons 6 to 8: order prices from cheapest to most expensive, then shop from a menu and work out the change.
- Lessons 9 to 10: write, share and solve money stories.
- Lessons 11 to 12: review and check in, then open the doors for Class Market Day!
Why teachers love it:
- Every lesson is planned, with the exact resource and page named in each step
- Games open each lesson, so review feels like play
- Keeps Year 2 amounts in whole dollars and cents to $1, just as the curriculum asks
- Numbered files match the program, so you can find what you need in seconds
Curriculum: Written for Year 2. Linked to the Australian Curriculum (Version 9), AC9M2N06: solving practical problems involving additive situations, including simple money transactions.
Just want the games?
Money Bingo, Honey Money, I Spy, Money Bags, I Have Who Has and Market Day are all sold separately too — compare them by skill, players and prep in our Australian Money Games collection.
SPECIFICATIONS
Format: One ZIP folder of 27 numbered files: PDFs set up for A4 paper, plus the Who's on Our Money? slides as both a PowerPoint and a PDF. Exactly what's inside is listed above.
Editing: The PDFs are not editable. They are flattened to protect the design.
Printing: Open the file in a PDF reader and choose 'Fit to page' or 'Actual size'. Do a test page on plain paper first — card, colour and black-and-white all print well.
Licence: One classroom, one teacher. Please don't share, resell or post the file online; buy an extra licence for each colleague who wants their own copy.
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