All About Work – Spanish

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Previsualice el video haciendo clic en la flecha “play”

Historia del video:  ¿Qué es el dinero y qué puede comprar con él? Usamos el dinero para cubrir y pagar nuestras necesidades y deseos. Para ganar dinero hay que trabajar, y hay muchos oficios que se pueden hacer.

Duración del vídeo: 9:20 minutos.

💼 Introduce your young learners to the world of jobs, money, and helping others! This All About Work video for kids is designed specifically for Grade 1 economics and social studies units. Through cheerful narration and engaging visuals, students learn what “work” means, the different kinds of jobs people do, and why work is important in a community. The video makes abstract ideas concrete for young minds, giving them real-world context for earning, saving, and helping others.

🪙 Explore Jobs, Money, and Choices in This Grade 1 Social Studies Video

Students are introduced to the concept of earning money, buying things they need or want, and even saving for future goals. The video uses familiar examples to teach about coins, dollars, and making smart choices — like deciding between toys and snacks, or understanding why saving up is sometimes the best option. With clear language and relatable situations, it helps students understand basic financial literacy in a developmentally appropriate way.

🎥 The All About Work video for kids also explains how people help others through their jobs — like firefighters, teachers, or store clerks — and how volunteering and sharing are important kinds of work too. These examples reinforce social-emotional skills while building awareness of how communities function.

🏆 Perfect for introducing economic ideas in a Grade 1 classroom, this video supports lessons on needs vs wants, community helpers, and how we exchange money for goods and services. It’s easy to use as a warm-up, discussion starter, or reinforcement tool — and it’s beloved by teachers for how clearly it connects to real-world learning.

Historia del video:  ¿Qué es el dinero y qué puede comprar con él? Usamos el dinero para cubrir y pagar nuestras necesidades y deseos. Para ganar dinero hay que trabajar, y hay muchos oficios que se pueden hacer.

Duración del vídeo: 9:20 minutos.

💼 Introduce your young learners to the world of jobs, money, and helping others! This All About Work video for kids is designed specifically for Grade 1 economics and social studies units. Through cheerful narration and engaging visuals, students learn what “work” means, the different kinds of jobs people do, and why work is important in a community. The video makes abstract ideas concrete for young minds, giving them real-world context for earning, saving, and helping others.

🪙 Explore Jobs, Money, and Choices in This Grade 1 Social Studies Video

Students are introduced to the concept of earning money, buying things they need or want, and even saving for future goals. The video uses familiar examples to teach about coins, dollars, and making smart choices — like deciding between toys and snacks, or understanding why saving up is sometimes the best option. With clear language and relatable situations, it helps students understand basic financial literacy in a developmentally appropriate way.

🎥 The All About Work video for kids also explains how people help others through their jobs — like firefighters, teachers, or store clerks — and how volunteering and sharing are important kinds of work too. These examples reinforce social-emotional skills while building awareness of how communities function.

🏆 Perfect for introducing economic ideas in a Grade 1 classroom, this video supports lessons on needs vs wants, community helpers, and how we exchange money for goods and services. It’s easy to use as a warm-up, discussion starter, or reinforcement tool — and it’s beloved by teachers for how clearly it connects to real-world learning.

Curriculum Standards for this Video

State Standards

Worksheets

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

Video Curriculum Standards

Worksheets – Thumbnails

Temas Abarcados

Tipos de dinero: monedas y billetes

Concepto de ahorrar dinero para gastarlo después

Necesidades y deseos

La personas trabajan por dinero

Tipos de trabajos

Las fábricas son el lugar donde se fabrican los productos

Los productos se intercambian por dinero

El dinero nos permite comprar cosas que hacen la vida más fácil que antes

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Grade 3 - I Am A Consumer

Classroom Ideas

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.

 

 

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