Teacher: Sarah Fiorella

Grade:1st

Lesson: Money
Duration:40 minutes

Standards Addressed: Represent and interpret data.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.C.4
Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer
questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how
many more or less are in one category than in another.
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Concept(s):
Reviewing money while
performing cross
curriculum activities to
enhance learning.
Materials:
Worksheets
Choice board

Essential Question(s):
How can you show and use money in different ways?
Understandings:
Students will use their background knowledge of money
to apply it to everyday uses.
Knowledge and Skills
Students will know the fundamentals of money: value
and looks, to demonstrate several different money
activities
Assessment Evidence:

Description (What & When)

Pre-Assessment(s):
Students will identify different coins as
the teacher asks the questions. They will
hold them up.
Some of the questions include:
Hold up a nickel.
Hold up a dime.
In the space in front of you make 25cents
without using a quarter.

Teacher Musings (Why)

By doing a simpler pre-assessment it will

get the students more time to focus on the
activity of the day. Also by doing it this
way students do not see it as an
assessment but it is more like a game.

Ongoing Assessment(s):
Monitoring the students as they work
though their worksheets. PostAssessment(s):
Worksheets

Lesson Sequence and

Teacher Musings

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Description
Pre-Learning Stage: (5 minutes)
For a quick review of money, each
student will get a collection of assorted
coins. The teacher will ask the students
to: hold up a nickel, a penny, and a coin
worth ten cents. Then they will be asked
to show how to make 25 cents by using
different coins (no quarters).

Differentiation: Process and learning style

This lesson focuses on choice. I want the

students to be in charge of their own learning,
During Learning Stage:
I want them to be able to explore their own
For the learning stage students will be
creativity by crossing math and writing
given a choice board. The students will
together, students can start to understand why
work independently to complete 3 out of they need math and what they could actually
the 6 choices. They will be told that they do with money.
will be sharing these with the class.
The students will work on these through
the remaining time during class. They
can work around the room with a
partner but every student needs to
complete their sheet independently.
Post-Learning Stage: (7 minutes)
- I will collect the students worksheets.
We will come together on the rug and
students will share one of their
worksheet with the class. They will
explain what they did and how they
came up with the different coin
combinations.

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