Lesson Plans

Students will apply their knowledge of adding coins to a real life situation when they create different coin combinations to buy their daily snack.

Students will play a coin identification game to familiarize themselves with coin values. They will add coin values to determine the game's winner.

Students will play a game in which they count out the costs in coins for different labeled classroom items.

After reading an appropriate children's math text, students will review same type (denomination) coin sets, and will build same type sets equaling fifty cents.

Students will define the term \\\\\\\'democracy.\\\\\\\' Students will identify important accomplishments in the lives of the presidents of the United States.

Students will explain the meanings of spending and earning and associate the correct mathematical function with each one. Students will also make change up to a dollar.

Students will identify natural, capital and human resources. They will be able to explain the economic concepts of production and production resources.

Students will research and present information about the purpose and structure of the Federal Reserve System and its relationship with the United States Department of the Treasury.

Students will thoroughly understand the purpose and functions of the Federal Reserve System and its effect on our nation\\\'s economy. They will learn that monetary policies are decisions by the Federal Reserve System that lead to changes in the supply of money and the availability of credit. Changes in the money supply can influence overall levels of spending, employment, and prices by inducing changes in interest rates charged for credit and by affecting the levels of personal and business investment spending.

Students will use various coin denominations to explore the concept of fractions.