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Transition Metals (II)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners discuss transition metals, their properties, and where they are located on the periodic table as well as why transition metals are ideal for coins. After discussion, they conduct an experiment using copper in the form of old...
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It's Time to Rhyme

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students listen to rhyming book, identify rhyming pairs, guess what rhyme words mean, and create list of rhyming pairs on chart paper. They then discuss Fifty States Quarters Program, identify objects on backs of state coins, and...
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Food Web

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify producers and consumers, including scavengers and decomposers, and discuss role each plays in food web. They then make diagram of possible food chain that might include skull pictured on Montana's quarter, and...
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Money

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review the values of quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. They discuss how the different types of coins can equal the same amount. Students give examples of ways to make a given amount under $1.00. They explain what the...
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Right on the Money

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners are introduced to coins and bills in American currency. After watching a video, they practice making the same amount of money out of different combinations of coins and bills. Using the internet, they discover how much each...
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Kindergarten Money

For Teachers K
Students identify the various coins and their values through presentations, a rubric, a value pretest, and coin manipulatives. Money is incorporated into various activities whether at home or in school. Students create money webs using...
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Sun Prints

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss energy and where they can find it. They will then discuss the sun and how it functions as an energy source. Next, students get a piece of black paper and some coins. They go outside and make a design with the coins on...
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Coin Motion

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize coins and their values and count coin groups. They play a game where when music is turned on they skip, hop, jog and when it is turned off, they go to a spot in the room marked with the same coin or value as is in...
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Kansas Clues

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine the Kansas state quarter and the Buffalo nickel and look for clue to help them identify why the bison was so important to the Native American. They perform "freeze frames" depicting Native American use of the bison.
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Scoot for Money

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students rotate through a group of centers counting the coins that are in a cup placed at each spot. After completing the entire circuit, papers are graded as a whole class and each student gets to spend the money in their cup at a class...
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What is Money?

For Teachers K
Students identify the names of coins and grasp their relative values in terms of purchasing power. They engage in activities and games that help them acquire this knowledge.
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Give Me the Money

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students view a money transaction on video and identify the steps involved in making a purchase and calculating change. They write out original money math problems and exchange them with classmates.
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Money Bags

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore different combinations of coins that can be used for specified amounts of money using paper money and tree diagrams. They write money amounts in different forms. Groups utilize a tree diagram imbedded in this lesson...
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Dynamite Dimes

For Teachers K
Students participate in a game called Dynamite Dimes.
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Money Matters

For Teachers K
Students play a game called Money Matters using cut out representatives of pennies, nickels, and dimes.
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Problem Solving Using Coin Identity and Coin Value

For Teachers K
Students identify characteristics of a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter, match the value of coins, and practice using money for a purchase.
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Coin Counting

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify value of coins and complete coin counting activities.
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The Price Is Right - TV Game Show

For Teachers K - 5th
Students play variation of TV game show "The Price is Right" to identify coins and their values.
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Coin Count & Classification

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students make a prediction about how 100 pennies sort by decade or year and then test their predictions. They organize their data using a graph that is imbedded in this lesson plan.
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Coin Poems

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars recite a poem that aids in coin recognition. They memorize a poem that helps them identify the shape and worth of a penny, nickel, dime and quarter.
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Money - Pennies

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this counting money worksheet, students count the pennies in each example. Students count 6 sets of pennies and write the answers on the lines.
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Money - Nickels

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this counting money worksheet, students count the nickels in each set. Students write the total amount of money for the 6 examples.
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Money in the Bank

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students write and draw the pictures and words they see on each coin. They discuss the presidents or other images on the coins' faces. Students are told that each coin represents a specific amount of money. They trace their coins with...
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Addition With Dimes

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this addition with dimes worksheet, students add sets of dimes, writing totals beside each of 7 sets. A reference web site is given for additional activities.