Intern Name: Wilamina Harris

Lesson Title (Subject/Topic): Let’s Go Shopping!

Grade: 11
Length of Lesson: 15 minutes
Date Taught:
LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
In this lesson…
Overview The students will learn the value of coins and practice paying for things using coins.

Standards
K.7 The student will recognize the attributes of a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter and
of identify the number of pennies equivalent to a nickel, a dime, and a quarter.
Learning
What does a quarter look like? What does a dime look like? What does a nickel look like?
Essential What does a penny look like?
Questions
Students will be able to…
the student should be able to identify and use different coins and practice paying for items
Objectives with them.

Learning I can identify different coins and their key characteristics

Target
Necessary The students will need to know how to count. The students will need to know colors.
The students will need to know how to pay for something.
Prior
Knowledge
- “the coin counting book”
- small toys
- candy
Materials - fake coins
- baskets

For the introduction I am going to read the kids a book about coins.
Introductio
n/Hook
1. read the coin counting book
Instruction 2. show each coin and how much its worth on a slide
al 3. play a counting coins video on smart board
4. they will sort the name and amount the coin is worth on a slide show
Activities 5. send them back to their seats and give them all 1$ worth of coins
& 6. one table at a time they will come up and use their coins to buy items and candy
Strategies
Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
 - money
- coins
- quarters
Key - nickels
Vocabulary - pennies
or - dimes
- 1
Concepts - 5
- 10
- 25
Assessment Their assessment is when they come up to the board and drag the name of the coin and the
amount its worth when shown a coin.
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For the closure activity the students will get to clean up and play with their prizes
Closure
Activity
Some students work significantly faster than others so I will allow them to play with their
toys and eat their candy that they bought with the coins during the lesson after they finish
Accommod
ations Other students take much longer to grasp a concept so I will make sure to check in with
their group more often

My outside resource is linked above in

Resources

Reflection on a Lesson Plan Taught

Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow
Intern Name: Wilamina Harris
Lesson Title (Subject/Topic): Let’s Go Shopping!
Date of Lesson Taught:
Cooperating Teacher & School: Linkhorn Park Elementary Ms. Houlihan
Grade: Kindergarten
Time of Day: 12:50-1:50

1. What steps did you go through to create this lesson? With whom did you talk, discuss, or edit your lesson?
I didn’t really talk to anyone besides Mrs. Nardelli. I went through my lesson in my head multiple times trying to
make sure everything was going to run smoothly.

Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
2. How did the SOLs and Objectives help focus your instruction?
K.7

3. What parts of the instructional plan worked as you anticipated?

Reading a book and showing the students the coins.

4. What, if any, adjustments needed to be made once you began?

I had to scratch my video out and go off the whim with something else.

5. How well did you anticipate the materials needed?

I had all the materials needed.

6. How effective was the assessment you chose to use? (If no assessment was used, what will the future
assessment be and how will you gauge its effectiveness?)
The assessment that I chose wasn’t the most effective just because all the students weren’t given an
opportunity to test their knowledge individually.

7. To what degree do you feel that this lesson was a success? What evidence do you have for the success of
the lesson? (Hint: Student learning is the key to a lesson’s success!)
I think that my lesson was successful. I am confident that the students walked away understanding the
information that was taught.

8. How did the time spent preparing for your lesson contribute to it’s success?
It helped that I had gone over it in my head which definitely helped with the lessons success.

9. If you could do this lesson again with the same students, would you do anything differently? If so, what?
I would have come more prepared. I would have had the coins counted and ready to go for the students, I would
have given them less coins, and given them a smaller selection of things to buy so that it wasn’t as hard for
them to decide what they wanted.

10. Any last comments/reflections about your lesson?

no

Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)