Description
This lesson will introduce how to count small groups of change that include pennies, nickels, and dimes. It will review the value of pennies, nickels, and dimes, and how to count pennies with nickels and pennies with dimes. Before using this lesson, children should have had practice manipulating and counting plastic or real coins in groups such as all pennies, all nickels, all dimes, pennies and nickels, and pennies and dimes.
Objectives
Students will be able to:
- identify the values of coins (pennies, nickels, dimes)
- sort coins by value
- organize coins from greatest to least value
- count mixed groups of coins (pennies, nickels, dimes)
Materials
- "What Is In My Purse" SMART Notebook file
- "Dime, Nickel, Penny Counting" SMART Notebook file
- Real or plastic coins for practice
- Coin stamps (optional)
- Coin purse cards/small items or picture cards/denomination cards (optional)
- "I am/What is" activity file and index cards (optional)
- Money practice page fie
- Money quiz assessment sheet file
Duration
Introduction Lesson - 1 day (30-40 minutes)
Practice - 1-3 days (30-40 minutes) depending on level of students
Procedure
Day 1: Review and introduce - "What Is In My Purse" SMART Notebook file
1. Review name, value, how to count for:
penny (slide 2), nickel (slide 3), and dime (slide 4).
There is a link to a great review website.
2. Review how to count pennies and nickels and pennies and dimes (slide 5).
3. Introduce the steps for counting mixed groups of pennies, nickels, and dimes:
step 1: sort (slide 6)
step 2: organize (slides 7-8) In step 2, 'houses' and 'fences' are used to help the children visualize when they need to switch the type of skip counting used (10's, 5's, 1's). Explain to the students that just as a fence can separate the yards of houses, we will separate the coin houses of the "Dime Family", the "Nickel Family", and the "Penny Family" with 'fences'.
step 3: count (slide 9).
4. Model with examples on slides 11-13
Days 2-4 (as needed):
Practice: "Dime, Nickel, Penny Counting" SMART Notebook file
This file allows you to pull down coins into the purse. The students can then be called to the SMART Board to sort, organize and count. To help reinforce the concept of switching when skip counting have one child count out the dimes using the green marker, switch to a second child to continue counting on now counting by 5's for the nickels with a black marker, and finally switch to a third child to continue counting on by 1's for the pennies with the red marker. Once an example is completed, select all the items, delete, and start again with a new amount.
Alternate practice: The students will use practice coins in addition to the notebook file. Tell the students which coins to pull down, have them count it out independently, and use notebook file to check the students' answers (they will model for classmates). The Play to Learn website also provides a practice activity.
Independent practice: Money practice sheet. (Hint- have students who are having difficulty color dimes green, nickels yellow, and pennies red so they remember to switch counting)
Assessment
As students complete independent practice, observe and listen to how they count the groups of coins.
Performance assessment: Call students to count predetermined sets of coins that you place in cups beforehand. (Example: Cup 1- 6 cents in pennies, Cup 2- 23 cents in nickels and pennies, etc.) Student will pour coins from cup, count, and place back in cup. Do as many cups as needed to determine proficiency.
Traditional paper assessment: You may use the Word File "Money Quiz" (see link below), use an assessment you currently have, or create your own assessment using coin stamps (or by creating a slide using coins from Smart Gallery and printing it) to create various denominations. Students will count and write a running count along the top to show skip counting.
Extension Activities
Center Activities-
"What Can I Buy?"- attach price tags to small objects or pictures (up to 50 cents), create small purse or wallet shaped cards that have pictures of coins. There should be a purse/wallet card for each item. Children match the coin picture to the item.
"Money Memory" - create picture cards showing various groups or coins and matching denomination cards. Students can play memory.
Class activity-
"I have/What is" (see word file "I Have/What Is"). Create cards, then hand out cards and practice coins. Keep card 1 for yourself. Read "I have 2 dimes and 1 penny." All students will pull those coins from their piles and count them to determine value. Child whose card reads, "What is 21 cents?" at the top will read his/her card. Students will then count the coins that child names and the child with the correct answer will read his/her card. Game continues until the teacher is able to read, "What is 15 cents?". The activity can also be done without coins to raise the level of difficulty.
