Where Does Money Come From?
A fresh loaf sits on the shelf — what did someone do to make it ready to buy?
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In the year workbook
My Money YearThis lesson has a companion in the printable year workbook: pupil pp. 17–18, teacher companion p. 16.
Learning objectives
- Explain that money is often earned by doing paid work that helps someone
- Match a job to the help or value it gives people
- Sort how money or help arrives — earned pay, a gift, or unpaid help
Vocabulary
- Earn
- To get money by doing work or helping.
- Value
- How much something is worth or how useful it is.
- Job
- Work someone does, often to earn money.
- Income
- Money that comes in, usually from work.
Materials
Minute-by-minute flow
5′
Hook
Teacher does
Hold up a loaf of bread and ask: what did someone do to make it ready to buy?
Students do
Suggest the steps and people behind the bread.
8′
Model
Teacher does
Use page 1 to speak the chain: baker works → bread helps feed someone → a customer may pay. Note a gift is received, while some help is unpaid.
Students do
Name the value at each step and finish “Money can be earned when…”.
15′
Match
Teacher does
Ask “What problem does this job help solve?” before each line.
Students do
Match baker → food, bus driver → travel, librarian → books.
12′
Sort + talk
Teacher does
Use page 2; have pairs mark E, G or H and explain one choice.
Students do
Sort six cases as Earned, Gift, or unpaid Help; discuss why unpaid help still matters.
5′
Exit
Teacher does
Check for a useful contribution, not artistic skill.
Students do
Draw one job and label the value it creates.
Check for understanding
Can the learner connect a job to the help or value it gives, and tell earned pay apart from a gift or unpaid help?
Exit ticket
Draw one job and label the need or value its work helps with.
Support
Use only the baker, bread and customer, plus two sort examples.
Stretch
Add a cleaner or carer and ask whom their work helps.
Home connection
At home, a grown-up names a job and the child says what help or value it gives — no need to discuss family money.