EDUC 2220- Educational Technology Lesson Plan

Money

Janel Raguindin
3rd graders/Math

Common Core Standards:

Approaches toward learning

Physical well-being
Social and emotional development

Lesson Summary:

The procedures of this is that each student gets a certain amount of fake money and able to spend less than
the amount given. The purpose of the lesson is to teach children how to count with money with subtractions,
additions, and multiplication.

Estimated Duration:

This lesson will take about two hours. As I plan on dividing the lesson into two days.

Commentary: I would ask the children if they like money and why they like money. The challenge that it
might brings the percent off on an item, which in real life is the items on sale. Another challenge is adding
up all the items plus the “tax” after sale. I would get them hooked by passing around fake money and how
many items they can “buy” with the money they have; they can keep it and earn a star for participation.

Instructional Procedures:
Day 1:
First 10 minutes: Intro activity – Students will see fake money, candy, and small toys on a big round table
with a fake cash register. I would tell each student to pass around the fake money ask they count how much
they have to the number on the board for each fake money.
20 minutes: I will sit on the chair behind the cash register and put postage note in front of each item of how
much they are. Then ask for volunteers on who wants to spend their money first.
30 minutes: After everyone has gone, I would ask who got the least items as I pass around a paper so they
can keep track of each item they have “purchased”. As they calculate how much the items are as I would
have a PowerPoint of each items of the picture with money on the screen.
40-50 minutes: Select a certain number of children to go on the computer, another group uses calculators,
last group will use a money counter. Have each student look at the screen and tell me how much dollars or
cents I need for the items.

Day 2:
First 10 minutes: I would ask students to get into a group of 5 people, grab the fake money, paper with math
problems and have them figure it out.
20-30 minutes: Switch up the groups and pass out a game called “Money Match me”.
40-50 minutes: Have children get on laptops and make a game about money, if cannot finish in class, they
can finish it outside

Pre-Assessment:
I would give warm-up problems about addition, subtractions, multiplication, and decimal points. This will
determine to help me understand if they remember what they have done in math so far.

Scoring Guidelines:
I would grade it with how much they got wrong so that I can tackle the most wrong answers with
some money problems. Later they can connect the dots and figure it out.

Post-Assessment:
I would give the student an exam to do with multiplication, subtractions, addition, and percentage.

Scoring Guidelines:
I would score it with a percentage for the exam. It would be multiple choice and they can use a
calculator. This way I can see how much they have learned from the lesson.

Differentiated Instructional Support

Describe how instruction can be differentiated (changed or altered) to meet the needs of gifted or accelerated
students: If any of the children are still struggling I would sit with them separately and explain slowly by
introducing money games on the computer then let them try on their own.

Discuss additional activities you could do to meet the needs of students who might be struggling with the
material: I would show them an educational video about money and how each dollar or cent means.

Extension
http://www.richkidsmartkid.com/
This is a friendly kids website that teaches children more about money and how to spend it in other ways.
Students can benefit from this because it is interactive, and it helps them learn more about money.

Homework Options and Home Connections

I would send home having them make money problems for students to use Wixie. Another homework option
is having them pull out a calculator and give them a paper that has money problems on it.

Interdisciplinary Connections
It is integrated with the real-life situations and how the world runs on money so that they can understand that
money shouldn’t be wasted. I could bring English into the subject by telling me a story of money.

Materials and Resources:

For teachers Fake money, fake cash register, calculator, pencil or pen, candy, small toys, and paper.

For students Pencil, calculator, and paper.

Key Vocabulary
Subtraction, multiplication, addition, percentage.

Additional Notes