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Teacher Lesson Plan (page 1)
Grade Level: 5th through 7th
Background: This unit is designed to integrate history, language arts, math and social studies. According to California State Standards, 5th graders study the History of the United States and its Geography: Making a New Nation. This unit addresses several of these 5th grade Social Studies and Mathematics standards. Studying our nations coins provides a wonderful background to U.S. history.
Objectives: Students will:
- research the beginnings of the U.S. Mint and how it related to our struggle for independence.
- create a multimedia presentation on the history of the Mint
- investigate how coins are made in the U.S. and other countries
- explore the Mint's 50 State Quarters program
- create a web page for a state and explain it's quarter design
- design a quarter for a state who hasn't issued a quarter yet
- construct and analyze a bar graph showing production amounts for various state's quarters
- analyze sample data to determine where the majority of coins in the classroom were minted
Standards:
Under the California 5th Grade Standards for Social Studies, students will:
- understand how the British colonial period created the basis for the development of political self-government and a free-market economic system.
- explain the early democratic ideas and practices that emerged during the colonial period, including the significance of representative assemblies and town meetings.
- understand how political, religious and economic ideas and interests brought about the American revolution.
- understand the personal impact and economic hardship of the war on families, problems of financing the war, wartime inflation, and laws against hoarding goods and materials.
- know the location of the current 50 states and the names of their capitals.
Under the California 5th Grade Mathematics standards, students will:
- estimate, round and manipulate very large numbers.
- interpret percents as a part of a hundred; find decimal and percent equivalents for common fractions and explain why they represent the same value; compute a given percent of a whole number.
- use information taken from a graph or equation to answer questions about a problem situation.
- organize and display single-variable data in appropriate graphs and representations and explain which types of graphs are appropriate for various data sets.
- use fractions and percentages to compare data sets of different sizes.
- use a variety of methods, such as words, numbers, symbols,charts, graphs, tables, diagrams, and models, to explain mathematical reasoning.
Under the California 5th Grade Language Arts standards, students will:
- analyze text that is organized in sequential or chronological order.
- create expository compositions that establish a topic, important ideas, or events in sequence or chronological order
- provide details and transitional expressions that link one point to another
- offer a concluding paragraph that summarizes important ideas and details.