Back-to-School Resources
Ideas for lesson plans and activities that inspire learning.
Monthly Mint Trivia: Can you name the first circulating coin that featured a real person who did not serve as president?
Back to School in Style
It’s time to head back to the classroom, and that means new resources that will help to engage your students! The U.S. Mint’s Coin Classroom has printable lesson plans and activities as well as games and videos that will enhance learning concepts. Read on for details on how to incorporate coins into classroom lessons.
Educational resources to increase knowledge about coins:
- Introduction to Coins is an essential lesson plan for grades K-2 that helps students identify the characteristics and values of coins.
- This hands-on activity will help students develop an understanding of counting patterns and number sense strategies.
- Spark your student’s imagination as they create their own coin design based on images in the U.S. Mint’s image library.
- Engage in real-life scenarios as your students create grocery stores and purchase items using coins in the Cents-able Shopping activity.
Coin of the Month: Stacey Park Milbern AWQ Quarter
The reverse (tails) depicts Milbern speaking to an audience. She places one hand near her trach while her right-hand faces palm up, in a gesture meant to evoke a genuine exchange of ideas and the building of allyship. The additional inscriptions are “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,” “E PLURIBUS UNUM,” “QUARTER DOLLAR,” “DISABILITY JUSTICE,” and “STACEY PARK MILBERN.”
The obverse (head) depicts a portrait of George Washington. This design was originally composed and sculpted by Laura Gardin Fraser as a candidate entry for the 1932 quarter, which honored the bicentennial of George Washington’s birth. Inscriptions are “LIBERTY,” “IN GOD WE TRUST,” and “2025.”
What Coins Are Made Of
How Coins are Made
Making Change Game
Trivia Answer: Benjamin Franklin Half-Dollar