How much does your class know about Puerto RIco? How much can they learn from the back of a 2009 quarter? Use the coin, part of a series of quarters that depict US territories, to teach learners about the geography, culture, and history of Puerto Rico.

Concepts

latitude and longitude, map skills, puerto rico, united states territories, territories, absolute location, location

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Use when discussing the difference between a US state and a territory
• Incorporate more current events from Puerto Rico, including Hurricane Maria in 2017
• Bring in additional state quarters to provide context for the lesson

Classroom Considerations

• Lesson requires an overhead projector, but a document viewer or interactive whiteboard would be fine
• Resource was published in 2009

Pros

• Includes a writing rubric
• Cross-curricular lesson involves social studies and language arts skills
• Reinforces the concepts of absolute and relative location

Cons

• None