Lesson plan
Counting and Adding: Penny For Your Thoughts
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to recognise a penny, know its value, and add any amount of pennies together.
Introduction
(10 minutes)
- Call the students together as a group.
- Ask them if they have ever used money, and if so what they used it for. Take responses by raised hands.
- Show students a penny and ask them what it is called. Take responses by raised hands.
- Ask students if they know how much a penny is worth. Take responses by raised hands, then tell students that a PennyIs equal to one cent, and 100 pennies make one Dollar.
- Ask students what they think they could purchase with one penny.
- Tell the students that today they will be counting pennies.
Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling
(10 minutes)- Tell students that in order to count pennies, each one has the value of one, therefore pennies are counted consecutively.
- Place ten pennies where they may be seen by all students.
- Count the ten pennies aloud.
- Allow the student to repeat after you.
- Remove some of the pennies and practise counting together again to determine the correct amount.
- Continue to add and remove pennies, changing the amount.
- Allow the student to count the amount of pennies collectively without teacher support.
- Once the students have mastered counting the pennies, transition to the next section.
Guided practise
(10 minutes)- Place students in groups of four to work.
- Give the students a random amount of pennies in each group.
- Assign a scribe, a counter, a checker, and a reporter in each group.
- The counter will count the amount of pennies.
- The checker will recount to verify the amount of pennies.
- The scribe will write down the amount of money using the cent symbol.
- The reporter will stand in front of the class when called upon to report how much money their group had.
- Pennies may be precounted and labeled in snack sized plastic bags to minimize time and increase the speed of verifying the correct answer.
Independent working time
(10 minutes)- Give each student the Pennies and Cents worksheet and a pencil.
- Read the instructions to the students.
- Allow the students to complete the worksheet.
Differentiation
- Enrichment:Give the students an assignment with nickles and pennies if they are familiar with money.
- Support:Give the students pennies based on their ability to count. If a student can only count to five, then only give him five pennies.
Assessment
(10 minutes)- Grade the worksheet completed during independent work time.
- Give feedback and allow for reinforcement if the student did not master the concept.
Review and closing
(10 minutes)- Call the students together.
- Ask the students what the value of a penny is.
- Take responses by raised hands.
- Ask the students to collectively add 5 cents to 1 cent using pennies or paper manipulatives.
- Take responses by raised hands.
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