These classroom activities are designed to complement theDollars and Cents topic on BrainPOP Jr.
Classroom Activities for Teaching Dollars and Cents
For Sale Set up a sale in your classroom. Students can bring in items from home or they can make art projects to sell. Students may also want to bring in baked goods. Together as a class, discuss how much each item should be priced. Encourage your students to think about what would happen if a cupcake was priced at $1 and another cupcake was priced less. This provides an opportunity to teach economics and business. Use fake bills and coins and give each student the same amount. You can print out fake bills and coins from different websites or buy them from a toy store. Students can then “buy” the items and see what they can and cannot afford. This is a good opportunity for students to understand the value of money.
Penny Harvest
Start a Penny Harvest with your class. Have students collect as many pennies as they can for a month or for the whole year. Then at the end of the harvest, count the pennies together and come to a grand total. Students can discuss what to do with the money and take a vote. Students may want to use the money to buy something for the classroom, go on a trip, or donate to an organization of their choice.
Coin Rubbing
To help students identify different coins, have them make rubbings of each kind of coin. Give coins to groups of students and have them place a piece of paper on top of the coin. They can use the side of a crayon to rub over the coin. Have students rub the head and the tail of each coin. Remind them to label their coins and write the value. Point students’ attention and discuss the different elements on a coin, such as the date, the picture, and the rim.
History of Coins
Discuss where to find the date on each coin and then have your students bring in the oldest coin that they can find. Discuss important events that happened during the time the coin was released.
As an extension, encourage your children to bring in coins from different countries. Compare and contrast the coins and discuss how they would count the coins. For example, you would count by twos to count two-pence coins. This provides an opportunity for students to learn about other cultures and how their money works.
Use fake bills and coins and give each student the same amount. You can print out fake bills and coins from different websites or buy them from a toy store. Students can then “buy” the items and see what they can and cannot afford. This is a good opportunity for students to understand the value of money.
Scoot Cents: Have each child put 4-10 coins of various values on his or her desk. Use an index card or a sticky note to number the desks. ...
Coin Counting BINGO: Write 24 coin totals on the board (eg: $0.53, $1.17, etc.). Have students write the totals randomly in the spaces of blank BINGO cards.
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Teaching the values of coins requires showing the worth of each coin in cents. This instruction is done by placing cutouts representing the values of each coin on top of the cent model. The number of cent units covered by a coin model represents the value of the coin.
In the United States currency system, 1 dollar is equivalent to 100 cents. This means that to convert from cents to dollars, you divide the number of cents by 100.
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One dollar is worth 100 cents. Once you have more than 99 cents, money should be written in dollar terms. To convert cents to dollars, move the decimal point over to the left by 2 spaces. To count money faster, use the “counting on” method.
Have children find and identify coins and notes.Use real coins to give children experience in sorting and counting different coins and notes. Children learn coin and note recognition with this activity. It encourages visual recognition of the coins.
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