Asb Getwise Primary Teacher Resource Pack Page 14
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46Activity 3
Cash clever at the dairy
Curriculum connection:
Financial capabilities framework:
Capability: Manage money and income
Theme: Spending
Learning outcome:
• Discuss why and how people make choices about spending money, e.g. when buying food for lunches.
• Use coins and notes for simple transactions – give and receive change.
Lesson focus:
• Counting money and counting change.
• Distinguish between needs and wants, understand why it is important to know the difference.
Activity:
A. Students role play a transaction between a customer and shop assistant at a dairy.
You can set up the store by using a table as the countertop have the items and prices up on the whiteboard
behind the sales counter.
Explain that the customer has $10 and they need four items for a healthy and balanced breakfast, with any
remaining money the student is allowed to purchase themselves a treat which they can have later in the
day or save the money later/towards a savings goal.
The customer will interact with the shop assistant and they’ll exchange money for the goods and the shop
assistant will provide any change necessary.
Have the student explain why they decided on the purchases they made.
Students can then sort the items from the dairy into needs and wants.
Milk
Eggs
Chocolate
Ice Cream
Fruit
$3.00
$2.50
$1.00
$3.00
$1.50
Muesli
Lollies
Bread
Chips
Fizzy Drink
$3.50
$2.00
$1.00
$1.50
$2.50
Cheese
Cookies
Chewing Gum
Yoghurt
Ham
$2.50
$3.00
$1.00
$2.50
$3.50
Activity Extension/Alternatives:
B. Students go through the dairy menu as a class and classify dairy items as needs and wants. They can
use the following worksheet to draw pictures of all ‘needs’ and ‘wants’ they saw at the dairy.
Learning check:
• Do they know how to conduct a transaction?
• Can they describe the difference between needs and wants and why it’s important to know the difference?
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