Grade 1 - All About Work
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Unlock the World of Work & Money for Your 1st Graders!
How do people earn money? What’s the difference between a “want” and a “need”? These are big questions for little learners—and now, there’s an engaging way to help them understand!
📽️ “All About Work” is an interactive, easy-to-follow educational video that brings essential economics concepts to life for 1st grade students. Through clear explanations, real-world examples, and fun visuals, this video makes learning about jobs, money, goods, and services both exciting and relatable.
💡 What Your Students Will Learn:
✅ The different types of money (coins & bills) and their values
✅ The importance of work—and why people get paid
✅ The difference between wants and needs
✅ How people trade work for money and money for goods
✅ The role of factories, farmers, and service workers in our daily lives
✅ The power of saving and making smart financial choices
🌟 Why Teachers Love It:**
🕒 Saves You Time – A ready-to-go, curriculum-aligned resource!
👩🏫 Engages Young Learners – Simple language and real-world examples keep students interested.
🎯 Meets Standards – Aligned with the Grade 1 Social Studies curriculum.
🔁 Reinforces Learning – Perfect for introducing or reviewing key economics concepts.
💰 Bring real-world economics into your classroom—without the prep work!
Subscribe today and give your students the foundation they need to understand work, money, and smart financial habits—in a way they’ll actually remember! 🚀
Video length: 6:36 minutes.
Learning Resources with this Video*
Quizzes – PDF and online
Make a Dollar
Work Match-up Vocabulary Sheet
Needs and Wants Sort
I May Be…Worksheet
Draw a Scene
Universal Resources
National Standards
*Links are active on Full Video page.
Classroom Ideas
All About Work
Making Change
Create a classroom “store” where students can use money to buy things. Classmates can take turns being the cashier to make change.
Video can be used as an introduction to a 3-Act Math Task.
Money
Ask students to think or write about all the different way they can create $1 with coins.
Art and Social Studies
Draw a scene from the video you just watched.
Visual Learning
Offer videos to struggling learners as another means of creating knowledge and accessing information.
Explore Vocabulary
Identify key vocabulary terms while previewing each video. Prompt students to find the meaning of each word as they watch the video. Example: What do the words volunteer, goods, and factory mean? Think about the meaning of these words as you watch this video.
Cloze
A cloze piece has full sentences used in the virtual field trip with blanks where students can write in the information that is missing. This task requires close listening to the trip in order to complete it.
Coral reefs are the _______ type of ecosystem in the world. They’ve been around for over _____ million years.
Answers: oldest; 240
Alternatively, you could have students create 5-10 cloze statements and they could share those with the class.
A third alternative is to distribute the cloze worksheets before watching the video. Students can fill them in as they watch.
Classroom Ideas for ALL Videos
Here are dozens and dozens of ideas that you can use in your classroom along with our videos!
Topics Covered In This Video
Types of money – coins & bills
Concept of saving money to spend later
Needs & wants
People work for money
Types of jobs
Factories are where goods are made
Goods are traded for money
Money lets us buy things that makes life easier than it used to be
Videos in this Series
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Grade 1 - Life Long Ago
Grade 1 - Let's Learn About The Government
Grade 1 - Families and Neighbors
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