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Activity Lesson Plan
1. Descriptive Data
Teacher: Wing Yan Hui Class: K1 Date: 5/3/2024 Grade Level: Kindergarten
Student number: 17 Teacher: 2
Room number: 101 Period: 10:00am-10:45am Unit: Purchase Lesson Number: N/A
Topic: Money
Anticipated noise level: (high, moderate, low) moderate
Standards: Understand that certain objects are coins and dollar bills, and that coins and dollar
bills represent money. Identify the values of all U.S. coins and the one-dollar bill. (K.M B3)
2. Goals and Objectives
Instructional goals:
1. Students will be able to learn the coins’ value.
2. Students will be able to know the function of money.
3. Students will be able to know the ways how to keep the money safe.
Specific objectives:
[Note: all three domains not always present in every lesson]
Cognitive:
Students will be able to identify the value of the coin.
Affective:
N/A
Psychomotor:
N/A
3. Rationale [Note: rationale not always present in every lesson]
Students will learn the values of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. Then, they have to learn
the functions of the money such as purchasing, saving, and investment in order to establish a
good financial management. Also, they have to learn how to keep the money safe so that they
don’t lose their money.
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4. Procedure [Procedure with modelling examples, planned transitions, etc; should usually take
up most of the space of lesson plan, often a full page]
⚫ 5 Minutes. Activity 1: Set (introduction)
- Before the lesson, teacher will put different coins into different corners in the
classroom to let students find it. Their mission is to find different coins.
- After finding the coins, ask students if they know how many kinds of coins do U.S.
have. (4)
- Ask students how they can keep their money safe so that they don’t lose it. If they can
keep it safe, we will have a purchasing experience after they learned the coins values
and counting.
- In the end of the lesson, teacher will ask them to give back the money to see if they
can keep it safe.
⚫ 5-10 Minutes. Activity 2:
- Ask students what function the money is. (purchase, investment)
- Ask students where the money from. They may answer it is from the phone, bank, or
parents’ wallet. (U.S. currency is produced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury)
- Students may question their parents don’t use money to purchase. Teacher may have
to explain the principle behind the online banking and credit card/ apple wallet is
money.
⚫ 10-15 Minutes. Activity 3: (the exact number of activities in the procedures will vary)
- Students will be 2 in a group and have a set of coins. They will explore the
differences between 4 coins.
- After the discussion, teacher will ask each group what they think. (They may answer
the size difference, the color difference, the words on the coins are different)
- After that, students have to give teacher back the coins set.
- Teacher will show them a slide that presents the coins in a bigger picture so that
students can see it clearly. President Abraham Lincoln is on the penny. President
Thomas Jefferson is on the nickel. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is on the dime.
George Washington is on the quarter. Every coin has “E Pluribus Unum”. It reflects
the states’ willingness to unite under a common currency because the states printed
their own money in the past years.
⚫ 5 Minutes. Activity 4:
- Play the video https://youtu.be/pnXJGNo08v0?si=rTKOrcEaSNKm4Q0O
⚫ 5-10 Minutes. Final Activity (Lesson conclusion or Closure):
- Teacher will have the coins back from students to see if they did keep it safe. Ask
students some ways to keep the money safe. (Money can be kept in the purse, bank,
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money jar or wallet.)
- Teacher will give students worksheet to write down how many cents the coins value.
- Teacher will check the answers with students together so that students can have a
chance to self-correct their answer.
If time remains:
⚫ Teacher will play the video again to let students create some movements.
⚫ Teacher can give a heads up that students will have a purchase experience later when
they master the coins value concept.
5. Special Considerations, Notes, and Reminders
During the first activity, teacher has to remind students not to run and they have to get as
much variety of coins as they can. (Maximum is 4)
Teacher has to let students know the coins are dirty and they do not put it in their mouth or
they will be choking.
6. Materials and Equipment Needed
Media:
Projector/SmartBoard
Software:
Slides with big picture of 4 coins
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Other:
17 sets of 4 coins for students to find in the classroom (depending how many students in the
class)
9 sets of 4 coins for students in a group to work on
Worksheet
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7. Assessment, Reflection, and Revision
Assessment of student learning, how it will be done:
Teacher will use the worksheet for the assessment. Also, teacher will assess their learning
later in the purchase experience because this lesson is only their first time to be exposed to
this topic.
Reflective thoughts about lesson after taught:
Suggestions for revision of used again:
