Here is a quick "script" for a presentation that would be similar to
my other presentations. I'm posting this in the hopes that someone else will find excellent pictures online to go with the words. But bear in mind that as you finish this presentation, you might need to edit the words. That's OK with me, this was written quickly and I'm sure it will need at least a little editing, and maybe a lot.
Money (U.S. currency)
<You might want to divide this into two or three presentations, Money 1 and Money 2 etc.>
<I make two different kinds of presentations, some with words above the pictures, and (when the pictures are very important) some with the pictures filling up the screen and the words on separate slides. I think for this one it's fine to have the words above the pictures, but I leave that to you.>
Do you want something at a store? <picture of some toys, maybe with a kid drooling over them>
We can't just take things out of stores without buying them. That's called stealing! <picture of someone stealing>
If you steal, the police will arrest you. It is against the law. <picture of police making an arrest>
You have to buy something, and then it is yours and you can take it. <picture of kid with a recent purchase; maybe, just a picture of a happy kid with a new toy>
How do we buy things? We use special plastic cards, <picture of credit, check, or debit cards>
but we can also use money. <picture of someone paying money at a cash register>
There are two kinds of money, or cash: coins <picture of various kinds of coins>
and bills. <picture of various kinds of bills>
Coins are made of metal, <picture of nickel/whatever ingot>
while bills are made of paper. <picture of paper money on a printing press?>
In the United States, <U.S. map>
our coins are pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars, and dollars. <picture including all of these>
<In the following make sure the pictures are big, but properly relative in size to the other pictures, so the dime is smallest of all. Also, make sure the pictures are clear, not fuzzy, and include both obverse and reverse on the same slide. Finally, please make sure the pictures are of the latest versions of currency, the stuff you see every day--not of old coins and bills no longer in circulation.>
The front side of a coin is called the obverse <obverse of a penny>
while the back side is called the reverse. <reverse of a penny>
A penny is worth one cent (1<cent sign>). <obverse and reverse of a penny; label them>
President Abraham Lincoln is on the penny. <portrait of Lincoln, together with a penny>
A nickle is worth five cents (5<cent sign>). <obverse and reverse of a nickel>
President Thomas Jefferson is on the nickel. <portrait + coin>
A dime is worth ten cents (10<cent sign>). <etc.>
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is on the dime. <etc.>
A quarter...
President George Washington...
A half-dollar...
President John F. Kennedy...
A dollar... <use dollar sign here>
<if you think it's necessary, add slides saying, "Here are a bunch of dollar coins you might see">
Many different people are on our dollar coins. <portraits of them...make into a series of slides if you want, or just one complex slide>
This sign <cent sign, big> means cents, or number of pennies. <picture of a bunch of pennies>
This sign $ <big> means dollars. <picture of a bunch of dollar coins similar to the ones shown earlier>
The front side of a bill, like this dollar bill, is called the obverse. <obverse of $1>
The back side of a bill is called the reverse. <reverse of $1>
A dollar bill is worth one hundred cents. <obverse and reverse, arranged top and bottom, labelled>
There is also the five dollar bill, <obverse & reverse>
the ten dollar bill, <obverse & reverse>
the twenty dollar bill, <obverse & reverse>
the fifty dollar bill, <obverse & reverse>
and the 100 dollar bill. <obverse & reverse>
<In the following, use coins and bills a little like Doman math dots.
A nickel is the same as five pennies. <picture of a nickle, then an equals sign, then five pennies; alternatively, use separate slides; I would put them on the same slide though>
A dime is worth ten pennies, <dime = ten pennies>
or two nickles. <dime = two nickels>
A quarter is worth 25 pennies, <etc.>
or two dimes and one nickel.
A half-dollar is worth 50 pennies,
or two quarters.
A dollar is worth 100 pennies,
or two half-dollars.
A five dollar bill is the same as five dollar bills, of course! <one five-dollar bill, equal sign, five one-dollar bills>
A ten dollar bill is the same as two five dollar bills. <etc.>
A twenty dollar bill is the same as two ten dollar bills.
A fifty dollar bill is the same as five ten dollar bills,
or two twenty dollar bills and one ten dollar bill.
A one hundred dollar bill is the same as two fifty dollar bills.
<I didn't bother adding that each of the bigger bills is the same as the same quantity in one-dollar bills, because it sounds weird: "A fifty dollar bill is the same as fifty one dollar bills." And, it's obvious enough I guess...>
All those coins and dollars is called cash. <a picture of bills and coins>
In other countries, they have different money.
In the U.K., <map>
they use pounds. <a one pound note>
In much of Europe, <map>
they use Euros. <a euro coin>
In Japan, <map>
they use yen. <one yen>
But today, many people do not use cash. They go to the bank, <picture of a bank>
and they put their money in the bank. <picture of a bank exchange preferably with a person handing a teller some money>
Then the bank gives them a plastic "check card," <picture of a check card>
and then we can use the card to buy things. <picture of an exchange using a card>
Someone with little money is poor. <cartoon of poor people>
Someone with a lot of money is rich. <cartoon of rich people>
The End
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