EDUC 2220- Educational Technology Lesson Plan

Counting Coins

La’Toya Stewart
1st Grade

Common Core Standards:

MEASUREMENT AND DATA

Work with time and money.

1.MD.3 Work with time and money.

a. Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
b. Identify pennies and dimes by name and value.

Lesson Summary:

In this lesson I will be focusing on increasing the children’s knowledge of money, in particular, coins. The
children will be working on many different math activities throughout the week by way of Rotation Stations.
They will have the opportunity to learn about coins in different ways (Technology, Centers, Interactive
Notebooks, Apps, and Guided Math).

Estimated Duration:

Teaching 1st grade will require me to work on many different subjects. To have time to work on all subject
areas in a day, I plan to spend 1 hour each day on math. We will spend 1 hour per day for 5 days on this lesson.

Commentary:

I believe this lesson can be a fun and effective way to begin learning about money and it’s value. I plan to use
these stations all school year long for different math lessons. My hope is that the children will become familiar
with how it works and things will run smoothly. One problem I anticipate would be that depending on my class
size, my groups might be too large. I would solve this issue by creating a 5th group to add to the rotation.

Instructional Procedures:

Introduction to concept (10 Minutes) – During this time I will use a Smartboard to introduce the lesson to the
children while they are still in one large group. I will be using an app called Gynzy Count with Money to help
the children get a better understanding of different coins and their value. This will be the time where children
can share their knowledge of the topic by participating in a question and answer session.
Explanation of Stations (5 Minutes) – I will use this time to explain to the whole group what is available to
them in each area. I will also remind them of how the Rotation Stations work and make sure everyone is aware
of what group they are in.

Station Time (40 Minutes) – The children will be broken up into 4 small groups. These groups will remain the
same throughout the entire week. The groups will take turns working in different stations in the classroom. I
will be creating a Powerpoint of the different stations and groups which will be used as a reminder for students
to clean up and rotate to the next station. The Powerpoint will be set to a timer and before the slide moves to
the next rotation it will play the clean up song. This will give children a warning letting them know their time
is up in that area.

Station 1 (Interactive Notebooks) – This will be at the table. Each child will have a math notebook for the
school year. At this station they will be working with coin-themed worksheets. These worksheets will require
the children to cut and glue the coins into their math notebooks. This activity will also involve counting and
adding the coins and then writing the answers in the notebook.

Station 2 (Math Center) – In this area the children will have a chance to work with manipulatives, a cash
register with plastic coins, and counting jars with real coins for sorting and counting. These activities will be
done on a large carpet so that the children have plenty of space to work with the materials.

Station 3 (Technology) – The children in this group will be working with the desktop computers. They will
be working on a website called Johnnie’s Math Page to help them with the concepts of counting and
understanding coins. http://www.jmathpage.com/sitepages/JMP18meascoinslength.html

Station 4 (Guided Math) - At this station I will be working with the children on different levels. The
activities will vary depending on the group I have at the table. My main goal at this station is to provide each
child with a chance to get the individualized instruction on this topic that they need. I will be doing this in
different ways such as money-themed games, simple coin charts, and tablets with the Gynzy Count with Money
app.

Review (5 Minutes) – Everyone will come back together in one large group and the children will have a
chance to share what they worked on for the day.

Each group will spend 20 minutes in the stations before rotating. This will allow them to experience 2 stations
per day for 4 days. That means each group will have a chance to work in every station twice during the week.

On day 5 we will be splitting our math hour up into 30-minute increments. The first 30 minutes we will review
the material that the children have been learning about all week. For the last 30 minutes the children will be
using the tablets do a knowledge check on the concept of coins. This will be an interactive assessment that will
evaluate each child’s understanding of the lesson.
Pre-Assessment:

For a pre-assessment we will use the tablets to play a coin counting game. I will monitor each child’s
outcome to help me see how much they already know and what they need to work on. My groups will
be divided up by understanding of the lesson. This means that I will use the pre-assessment to put
children in groups with similar skill levels.

Scoring Guidelines:

After the pre-assessment I will create a chart of each child’s name and rate their level of
understanding from 1-10. Then I will use this chart to place the children into their groups.

Post-Assessment:
The post-assessment will be given during day 5. Each child will play a coin counting game on their tablet
that will be an interactive quiz.

Scoring Guidelines:
The outcome of the game will let me know how much of the concept they were able to understand. This
will also help me to decide whether it is a lesson that I should continue to work on.

Differentiated Instructional Support

During the Guided Math time that each group will have with me, I will be able to work with children on
whatever level of understanding they are on. For example, while some children will be able to work on a coin
game that helps them count by 10s using dimes or adding 10 dimes to get to $1.00, another group might only
be ready to work on recognizing the difference between coins. That group will be doing things like sorting
coins or playing a coin matching game.

Extension
http://www.jmathpage.com/sitepages/JMP18meascoinslength.html
This website offers many different math games. On this lesson there are at least 5 games that the children can
work with to extend their learning.

Homework Options and Home Connections

During class there will not be enough time for them to explore all the games offered so I will be suggesting
that they work on this at home as well.
In addition to Johnnie’s Math Page and Gynzy Count with Money, I will also be asking families to work with
the children at home on this lesson by using real coins to count.
I will be encouraging families to take a trip to a store and allow their children to be part of the purchasing
process so they can get a “real life” connection to how money works.

Interdisciplinary Connections
This lesson can be connected to reading and writing numerals as well as understanding place value. It can also
be connected to economics in the area of Social Studies.

Materials and Resources:

For teachers Smartboard, projector, money themed games and manipulatives, scissors, glue,
notebooks, graph paper, Rotation Station board, Coins and coin jars

For students Tablets, 5 desktop computers, writing utensils

Key Vocabulary
*Coins
*Dimes
*Pennies
*Tens
*Measure
*Value
*Amount
*Change

Additional Notes

I think that this lesson can lead to a lot of other math lessons such as addition and subtraction as well as
learning place values and counting by 5s and 10s.