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For Sale!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students review same type (denomination) coin sets, and build same type coin sets equaling fifty cents.
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Change Mixer

For Teachers K - 5th
Students use their abilities to recognize coins and their values in this game that focuses on locomotor skills (skip, slide, gallop, run, jump). This game also requires students to add coin values.
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Are You Money Smart?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners figure out and discuss the irony of this coin-centric poem. They also practice persuasive letter writing, and identify and count coin/money values.
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Flip a Coin

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the concept of probability. In groups, they make a prediction about how many times a coin might show heads or tails when flipped. They carry out the experiment and record their results to compare it to their...
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One for the Money

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders sort items as they are shown one at a time by the teacher. They attempt to identify the one physical trait the teacher is looking for (metal and not metal). After several objects have been shown and placed in groups, the...
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Money

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students use play coins to solve problems. They imagine that someone handed them two coins. One is a quater and one is a dime. Students are asked by feeling the shapes of the coins, how could they tell which one was the quater? They are...
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Coin Connections

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine the Illinois state quarter and review Lincoln and the fact that he is also on the penny. They color paper coins, identify their values, and create a money mobile. They play a Cent Sense game to practice which coins are...
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Texas Quarter Drawing

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students recognize the U.S. penny, nickel, dime, and quarter by design and denomination and study the historical figures depicted on the coins. They study simple Texas symbols and choose one to draw in a design for a Texas Quarter.
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A "State of the Arts" Coin K-3

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars recognize the U.S. penny, nickel, dime, and quarter by design, size, and denomination and that the portraits and other images depicted on the coins were designed by artists. They study common Texas symbols and choose one...
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Quarter Coin Cookies

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study the historical figures and symbols of U.S. patriotism depicted on the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter coins. They explore the processes involved in making coins, and how metals canchange in consistency from the...
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What Does a Quarter Weigh?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study the historical figures and symbols of U.S. patriotism depicted on the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter coins. They create a balance scale from common materials to measure the approximate weight of a quarter.
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Counting Money

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discover the importance of economics through Shel Silverstein's poem Smart. Students are introduced to the concept of earning money and using money to purchase necessary items, after becoming familiar with U.S. money.
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Grouping Dinosaurs

For Teachers K - 4th
Students investigate sets and subsets as they group coins and dinosaurs. Using scissors and provided sheet, they sort dinosaurs according to their commonalities. Their groupings are shared with the class.
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Matching Pairs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners take turns matching the appropriate shapes (listing coin values) to those with numerical values listed on them. When students are successful, they win a blank shape for their collection.
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Money Skills (Using Coins)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students pretend to purchase items at their class store using coins. At the store, they are to state the amount of the item they want to buy by reading the label. They give the cashier the correct amount of coins and are given a mark on...
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Metal Composition & the U.S. Mint

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students study the meaning, symbolism, and value of U.S. coins, especially the quarter. Theyresearch why in 1965 the U.S. Mint decided to change the metal composition of the quarter to copper coated with nickel. In addition, they perform...
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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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Common Knowledge 3

For Students 1st
For this basic skills worksheet, 1st graders write their name, social security and parents name. Students write the months of the year. Students define a month in days and a year in days. Students write the values of the coins and the...
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Surface Tension On Coins

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students drop water onto clean coins to determine the tension of each coin and then to graph their findings.
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Magnetism in Action

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders experiment with magnetic force and magnetic fields. They examine how magnetic forces can act through a distance.
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Money Counting Worksheet

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this counting money learning exercise, students study the coins in each of 4 rows and count the amount of money they total. Students write the total amount.
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Money Counting Worksheet

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this counting coins worksheet, students look at the coins in each row, total their amount, and write their total in the blank.
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Money Counting Worksheet

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this counting coins worksheet, students look at the coins in each row, total their amount, and write their total in the blank.
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Money Matters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore the concept of money. In this money lesson, students role play an economy. Young scholars are divided into three categories- the money factory, construction workers, and the grocery store. Students work...

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