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National and Regional Identity

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students examine state quarters to identify symbols that represent national and regional identity. They discuss the process used to determine what is put on the quarter. They review colonial money, and euros to look for cultural images.
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How do You Stack Up? Revisited

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students estimate the thickness of coins. For this stack up lesson, students stack pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. They calculate and record the thickness of each coin. Students stack coins and estimate the height of the stack.
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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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Penny Panda's Sticker Store

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice counting money using nickels, dimes, and quarters. They review the value of nickels, dimes and quarters. They explore Penny Panda's Sticker Store, and talk a little about what the object of the activity is (save...
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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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Scuba, Dooba, Do

For Students 3rd
In this money worksheet, 3rd graders read a math scenario about 6 people going on a snorkeling trip. Students add together how much each person has to spend and what two items each person buys. Students choose 3 items they would like to...
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One Dollar

For Students 1st - 4th
In this money practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems that involve sums of 1 dollar.
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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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Past Meets Present

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine coins to become familiar with architectural structures.  In this past meets present lesson plan, 3rd graders research and complete worksheets on Guam.  Students combine their group research into pieces of the pie...
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Savings Accounts and Interest

For Teachers 1st
First graders study money, banks, and getting interest on money. In this consumer math lesson, 1st graders listen to Stan and Jan Berenstain's, Berenstain Bears' Trouble With Money. They use the concepts in the book to discuss...
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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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Memories from the National Sites

For Teachers K - 1st
Students write a virtual postcard. In this logo instructional activity students are introduced to the concept of postcard writing. Students research the national sites and states highlighted on quarters for that year. Students take a...
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Common Sense Cookie Shop

For Teachers 1st
First graders shop for a bag of cookies using toy money. In teams, they choose which variety to buy and decides which bills and coins are necessary to buy the bag of cookies and a cashier makes change. They tally the cookies purchased...
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Algebra Word Problems

For Students 8th - 9th
In this word problems worksheet, students solve 20 different word problems that are related to and use algebra. First, they determine the total amount of money spent in one week given the information. Then, students determine the...
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Labor, Choice, and Sales Tax

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students consider the idea of earning and spending money. In this money management lesson plan, students discuss the concept of saving and spending money through the reading of a story and by completing several activities that involve...
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Lesson Four - Making Change

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice making change. In this money lesson, students complete worksheets in which they find the amount of change they would receive from a dollar bill amount. Students go online and play games on this same concept. 
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3rd Grade Math

For Teachers 3rd
In this math review learning exercise, 3rd graders complete multiple choice questions about shapes, money, weight, and more. Students complete 20 questions.
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Smart Shopping

For Students 3rd
In this exact change activity, 3rd graders look over a price list and circle each item that Danielle can buy with 3 quarters, 2 dimes, a nickel and a penny. Students find five groups of items that Danielle can buy together with the exact...
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Math Review

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this review of math skills worksheet, students determine elapsed time in minutes, compare two-digit numerals, add values of money, identify an addition property and a solid figure. Students solve five problems.
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Nickel/Penny Grab

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine the coins nickels and pennies. In this math instructional activity, 1st graders compare the value of the two sets of coins and determine their value. Additionally, students explore counting sets of coins that...
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Deena's Lucky Penny

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discover the coin denominations of U.S. Currency.  In this money lesson, students read the book Deena's Lucky Penny, then complete a coin matching activity using the Internet.  Students also read Shel Silverstein's poem...
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A Dollar for Penny

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students demonstrate different ways to make a dollar. For this consumer math lesson, students read the book A Dollar for Penny and identify the value of each coin. Students determine combinations of coins that can make up a dollar.
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Sixth Grade Mathematics Quiz

For Students 6th
In this math worksheet, 6th graders complete multiple choice questions about variables, money, weight, and more. Students complete 15 questions.
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Coin Poems

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students 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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