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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Take a Dip: Sticky Water

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete lab activities to investigate the "sticky" properties of water, such as surface tension and capillary action, due to the polarity of the molecules.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sorting Sizes

For Teachers Pre-K
Students follow a pattern. In this sorting lesson, students are given various objects and they must sort them from smallest to largest.
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Unit Plan
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Adding Dimes, Nickels, and Pennies

For Students K - 1st Standards
Students can practice adding coins using the interactive games and practice exercises provided on this site.
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Unit Plan
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Adding Dollars, Dimes, and Pennies

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Practice counting money using this online game. You'll be adding different combinations of dollars, dimes, and pennies together. The game keeps a running total of your correct and incorrect answers, as well as the percent of correct...
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Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Pennies a Little Goes a Long Way Game

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Use this fun learning game in your classroom to help students understand the value of money. Groups of students will be exchanging pennies for other types of coins.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Counting Lesson Using Pennies and Dimes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Saxon Math Lesson 53 - writing the Number 48 counting pennies and dimes.
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Unit Plan
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Adding Nickels and Pennies

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Use this interactive game to practice adding pennies and nickels. The game keeps a running total of how many correct and incorrect answers you've given.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Lets Go Shopping With Pennies and Nickels

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to count nickels and pennies to pay for different items. Use this flipchart in addition to your lesson or as a center activity.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: How Much Money Do You Have

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart every page has a different total value of currency. Students can practice counting money. This flipchart can be used to add to your currency lesson or used as a center.
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Unit Plan
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Adding Dimes and Pennies

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Use this online game to add different combinations of dimes and pennies. The game keeps a percent score of your correct answers, as well as a running total of the number of your correct and incorrect answers.
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Unit Plan
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Adding Nickels and Pennies

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Use this interactive online game to find the sums of different combinations of pennies and nickels. The game keeps a running total of correct and incorrect answers, as well as the percent of correct answers.
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NumberNut

Number Nut: Count the Pennies

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this online quiz to count the pennies and find the total value of the money. Answers are in multiple choice format, and the total score is shown as you answer each question. The questions are generated randomly.
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Unit Plan
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Value of Coins

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Use this interactive game to match the value of a coin with the name of the coin. The game lets you know when you answer an item correctly. Scroll down to view the game.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Flavor Fiesta: Money Word Problems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will investigate money through an ice cream parlor activity. Students will determine the cost of an ice cream sundae using a recipe and price list. Students will use their Activotes to select...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Practicing With Coins

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Count money to 50 cents using pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.
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Website
Other

Kokogiak Media: The Mega Penny Project

For Students 9th - 10th
What does one quintillion pennies look like? Would it cover the Earth or Mt. Everest? Use this site to visualize the value of money.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing for Math Class: Follow the Path of Five Dollars

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, Pat Brisson's book Benny's Pennies is used as a mentor text. Students will discover ways to spend money that meets specific criteria. Students must explain their process for their spending choices, and then they must...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Lets Go Shopping With Pennies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to count pennies to pay for different items. Use this flipchart in addition to your lesson or as a center activity.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Lets Go Shopping With Pennies, Nickels, and Dimes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to count dimes, nickels, and pennies to pay for different items. Use this flipchart in addition to your lesson or as a center activity.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Penny and Dice Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a game using the dice tool and pennies to practice addition and counting. Students start out playing with one partner and one die. Later you can increase the partners up to four. This...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: A Battery That Makes Cents

For Students 3rd - 5th
Batteries are expensive to purchase in a store, but you can make one your self for exactly 24 cents. In this experiment, you will make your own voltaic pile using pennies and nickels and determine how many coins in a pile will make the...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Millersville Mall

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use the concept of counting pennies and nickels to shop at the Millersville Mall.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Let's Go Shopping

For Teachers K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to count change and dollars to pay for different items. Use this flipchart in addition to your lesson or as a center activity.
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Activity
The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute: Coin Identification

For Teachers K - 1st
Two very basic coin identification activities and a teacher lesson plan are available at this website. These activities may require an explanation before primary age students can use them.