Lesson Plans
Students will add pennies, nickels, and dimes and will organize the coins to display a variety of price values from real life examples..
Grades: K, 1stSubjects: MathStudents 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
Grades: 2nd, 3rdSubjects: MathStudents 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.
Grades: 3rd, 4th, 5thSubjects: Social StudiesStudents will use various coin denominations to explore the concept of fractions.
Grades: 3rd, 4thSubjects: MathStudents will practice identifying coins and their values away from their desks using physical motion.
Grades: K, 1st, 2ndSubjects: MathAfter 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.
Grades: 3rd, 4thSubjects: MathStudents will estimate the number of pennies it takes to fill outlines of various basic shapes.
Grades: K, 1st, 2ndSubjects: MathStudents will work in groups to examine a jar of coins to make both "guesstimations" and more precise estimations
Grades: K, 1st, 2ndSubjects: MathStudents will solve story problems involving money. They will use higher level critical thinking skills to develop their own strategies for solving the problems.
Grades: 2nd, 3rdSubjects: MathStudents will create different coin combinations for a single amount.
Grades: K, 1st, 2ndSubjects: Math