Lesson Plans

Students will review coins and their values, as well as practice skip counting using coins.

Students will explore the purchasing power of the half dollar. Students will collect and graph prices over time, and then write math problems to determine the percent increase between periods.

Students discuss and research an individual or event from a commemorative coin. They then use the information to write acrostic poems, creating stand-up accordion books to display the poems.

 Students will add pennies, nickels, and dimes and will organize the coins to display a variety of price values from real life examples..

Students will begin to understand how money passes through many different hands. Students will explore plot organization by designing a flow chart for a story about money changing hands

Students will learn about the evolution of coins by identifying features used in Roman times that have been carried into modern times. Then students will create their own Roman-inspired coin.

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

Students will practice identifying coins and their values away from their desks using physical motion. 

After defining spending and saving and discussing related habits, the class takes a poll to see how their peers like to manage money. Then students graph their findings and discuss the survey results.

Students will estimate the number of pennies it takes to fill outlines of various basic shapes.