Showing posts with label money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label money. Show all posts

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Googie Math / Art



Free Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NP0t-fn9RroznPtcnbsyS_y43rpV9J6h/view?usp=sharing

Practice your money skills and get creative with Shel Silverstein's "The Googies are Coming," from Where the Sidewalk Ends. What is a googie? Who knows?! Have kids write a definition for a googie. Next have them make a snapshot image of a googie. Then kids add up the cost of certain children! Once they figured out the different costs, they become googies and choose 5 children (draw/ add up the cost). 

Note: Tell kids googies want children to play with, so no one gets scared!

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Kid Made Monopoly: Adding & Subtracting Decimals

Practice adding and subtracting decimals by having students create a class game of monopoly! Kids design a debit card and balance a checkbook. Check out my post at We Are Teachers! Click here for free printables!

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Playground Design

Students practice regrouping decimals by designing a playground in cooperative learning teams! Click here for the printable.

Friday, April 26, 2013

mini Pulley

materials:
empty thread spool
string
2 cups
pencil
tape

Kids construct a miniature pulley and discover how wheels can help reduce friction! Students keep one cup on the ground and have the other cup suspended in the air (both attached to the pulley). They place 20 pennies in the cup on the ground. Then, they place a few pennies at a time into the other cup. How many pennies are needed to raise the cup off the ground?

Then, they remove the thread spool. They place the string connecting the cups over the pencil. They do the same experiment above (20 pennies to one cup and add a few at a time to the other). How many pennies are needed to lift the cup off the ground?

 Kids "compare the number of pennies needed to raise the cup with and without the rotating spool." Visit Education.com for more details (experiment called SHOWTIME from Janice VanCleave's book Machines for kids)!

Construction:
tape two 6 inch pieces of string to a table
insert a pencil into an empty thread spool
attach the pencil to the hanging string
cut a long piece of string (depends on height of table) and attach to both cups

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

The Mega Penny Project

The Mega Penny Project: explore value, weight, area, and the size of a stacked pile of lots of pennies!
Link for image above: one hundred million

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Heads vs Tails

Kids shake a group of various coins, cupped in both hands, and drop! Then, they compare heads and tails: writing fractions and coin amount. 

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Big Spender or Bill Saver?

This economics project is by Emily Stout at We are Teachers (2nd grade lesson plan). Kids explore wants / needs as they balance money in Kid Town. 

In order to have money, they startup a business. They collaborate, design store signage, create a window display (out of poster board), and market their product. However, they have expenses (rent). Plus, their list of needs comes before their wants. Students find that they might not always be able to get what they want with their earnings.

Who's a big spender and who's a bill saver? Click here for the full activity! 

Monday, February 18, 2013

Pimp My Ride

Economics, comparatives, superlatives: Kid industrial design project from Inspire your Learners! Check it out here!

Friday, February 15, 2013

Sneakers

Converse All Star: Sneaker Design (hit create)

Ways to use it:
Have kids name their shoe design and write why someone should buy their shoe. What makes it so cool?
Have kids compare their shoe designs. Are there any similarities? (graphing)
Kids can create word problems. If someone bought three pairs of their sneakers, how much would the total cost be?
Older students can explore color combinations (probability)

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Sand Castle Experiment

This surface tension experiment comes from The Indianapolis Public Library Kid Blog! Students explore measuring by adding different amounts of water to 1 cup of sand to see what water to sand ratio makes the ideal sand castle. They investigate fractions when measuring their water (1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 1 cup). They construct a total of four mini cup castles (using different amounts of water for each one). Then, they estimate how many pennies each "castle" will hold. Which castle do they think will be the strongest? They count out the pennies, as they lay them on top of each cup castle. Can any of their mini castles hold 25 pennies? Which castle was the strongest? Visit IPL Kid Blog for the scientific explanation behind this experiment!

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Baloney Belly

Read the poem "Baloney Belly Billy" by Shel Silverstein. Then have kids brush up on their money skills! Give them a certain amount of money to feed Billy. They decide what they want him to eat. Have them create a receipt including the cost of each item they fed Billy and the total amount of money they spent. 

Optional Craft (kids love this craft!) - Create your very own Billy. Have kids make an oversized construction paper head with a hole cut out where his mouth is. Tape a sandwich bag underneath. Kids can throw the items he eats in his mouth (kids draw paper items). You could also tape the head to a brown, paper lunch bag or tissue box (both with a hole for Billy's snack items).

Writing - What would you offer Billy for "another 50 cents?" ($1.50)

Saturday, January 19, 2013

18 Flavors

Read the poem 18 Flavors by Shel Silverstein. Next, tell kids that they are going to become ice cream inventors! Pass out a template for a scoop of ice cream and lay out different colors of construction paper.  Each child decorates his scoop of ice cream to look like the flavor he invented. Then, have students cut out their scoops and write their name on the back. Place their scoops of ice cream at the math station, along with a paper cut out cone. Kids go back and measure the ice cream cone with different scoops. How tall is it with one, two, three, four, five, and so on. 

Optional: Hanging up next to the station, write the price of one scoop. Have kids purchase their scoops of ice cream before measuring them to practice their money skills.

Writing: Have kids write a recipe for the ice cream flavor they invented! What will they call their flavor?

Click here for ice cream fractions and here for Sweet Shop Math! Click here for the full lesson with free printables!



Monday, January 14, 2013

Smart

President's day, poetry, and math: Have kids do coin rubbings in the open squares. Then, they write the coin amount on the line. For more president's day fun click here!

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Cookie Rocks and Mining

2 activities, Science and Economics:


1. Cookie Rocks - This experiment is inspired by Kinderpond's "C is for Cookie." Have all students sit around a large table. Give each kid a cookie. Then, have them destroy it! 

Weathering
First, have them experiment with a toothpick. Next, give them an ice cube to see the effects of ice on a cookie. They'll use the cube to chop at the cookie. Then, hand out an eyedropper to represent rain. Kids squirt water on the cookie. Note: You could even use a spray bottle.

Erosion
Once their finished demolishing their cookie, pass out straws. Have kids blow (wind) their cookie crumbles (rock fragments) toward the center of the table. Then, sweep their crumbs into a pile. 

Deposition
Add a couple drops of water to their crumbs (if needed) and squish them all together.


2. Cookie Mining Economics -  Check out the Museum of Science and Industry's Cookie Mining Project. Kids excavate chocolate chips from a cookie; but, first they have to purchase the materials they need and stay within their price range!

energy resources (renewable vs. non-renewable) - You can also use this activity to explore . Kids get a soft and hard chocolate chip cookie (which represent 2 landsites). Can they dig out coal without harming the landsite? Which site was easier to retrieve the coal? Visit Third Grade Thinkers for instructions!






Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Coins, Bills, and Presidents



Coin Experiments Featured:
1. Make a Quarter Cast and fool your friends with a magic trick! -  Magic.About
2. Make green pennies and glimmering pennies, exploring electrochemistry! - Fun Science for Girls
3. How many drops of water can you put on a penny before it spills off? - The Last Blog After Eugenics
4. How many pennies can you put into a cup of water without a spill? - Learning Ideas K-8
5. Knock the bottom coin out of a coin tower, without it toppling over! - Zoom
6. Coin Drop: Make a basket with a flick of your fingers! - Steve Spangler
7. Swing a coin by a coat hanger! How does it stick?! - Visit ABC News in Science for this magical trick!

More:
8. Color Changing Quarter: Turn a quarter copper! - MegaMVP555
9. Vibrate a penny and make it dance on the opening of a water bottle - April Oaks
10. Fool your eyes with a refraction experiment (penny in a cup of water) - Steve Spangler
11. Make a quarter scream! - Science Bob
12. Trick your friends with Candace's Coin Trick (glue stick, 3 pennies)
13. Pennies Afloat - Riding in a boat

Money Maker - Put yourself on a bill! - Upload a photo at Festisite!
Coin Scavenger Hunt - Hunt for coins minted from various years and sequence them in order! 
Coin Rubbings - Put coins under thin paper and rub over top with crayons.
Where's George? - Track a dollar bill!
photo via spoonful

Paper Log Cabin - Split students up into teams. Then, have them sketch out a design and construct it using paper tubes. Visit Spoonful (featured left).


Pretzel Stick Log Cabin - Chocolate Frosting Adhesive


Cherry Tree - Use a soda bottle for prints or crunch up tissue paper.


Life-Sized Presidents - Have kids split up into groups and pick a president. They measure out his height and create a paper president.


Writing - What would you do if you were president?

Monday, December 31, 2012

Dime Collector

2 player game: Each player gets a ten frame. Players take turns rolling a die. They count out the number of pennies the die lands on and place them on their ten frame. When a player fills his ten frame, he trades his pennies in for a dime. Play the game until kids get bored. The player with the most dimes wins!

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Number Bond Game


2 player game
materials: 4 straws, 6 paper plates (2 large, 4 small), tape

Younger kids - dice and number counters (or paperclips, beans, cheerios, etc.)
Roll the dice, using number counters, kids count out the number they rolled. Then, they place the number counters on the whole plate. They roll again, count out the number with their number counters, and place the counters on one of the "part" plates. Whoever figures out the missing part and places the correct number of counters on the plate first gets a point!


You can also use money. Ex: place one dollar on the whole plate and some coins on one of the part plates. Kids figure out the missing part, counting out coins.


Older Kids:
Kids pull two number cards from the pile. They place the larger card on the whole plate and the smaller card on one of the part plates. The first one to figure out the missing addend gets a point! 

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Regrouping: 2-Digit Addition

Regrouping can be a very difficult concept for students. A great hands on way to teach adding double digits is with dimes and pennies. Kids figure out that they add digits in the ones place first. Then, they add the digits in the tens place.

First, they group their pennies together to create a ten (dime). They trade their ten pennies for a dime. Any pennies left over (that don't make a ten) represent the ones place. Next, they count the total number of dimes they have. The number of dimes represents the numeral in the tens place. Add all the coins up and you have your answer! This is a fantastic activity for visual learners. Below is an example:



Saturday, June 16, 2012

Penny Shooter

All you need is a toilet paper or paper towel tube, balloon, scissors, and tape! How to instructions from CamNCurtis:

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Build an Aquarium

Practice your money skills by creating an aquarium and purchasing accessories! First, kids design a unique salt water aquarium for pet fish (think of the TV show Tanked on Animal Planet). Then, you give them a certain amount of money. Kids watch their budget as they choose what they would like to add to their tank. They can mix and match gravel, plants, and fish if they'd like! Once they have purchased their items, they draw the aquarium accessories and fish in the tank they designed.