Intern Name: Dallas Wood

Lesson Title (Subject/Topic): Coin Values

Grade: First
Length of Lesson: 90 minutes
Date Taught:
LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
In this lesson they will continue learning about the value of the following coins:
Overview pennies, nickels, and dimes.
1.8 The student will determine the value of a collection of like coins (pennies,
Standards of Learning nickels, or dimes) whose total value is 100 cents or less.
How does counting coins apply to real life situations?
Essential Questions How can we identify different coins such as pennies, nickels, and dimes?
How do we identify the value of certain coins?
Students will be able to identify and add coin values to come up with a target
Objectives total.
● I can determine which coins are dimes, nickels, or pennies.
Learning Target ● I can identify the value of dimes, nickels, and pennies.
● I can add the values of dimes, nickels, and pennies.
Necessary Prior The student must be able to decipher between pennies, nickels, and dimes.
Knowledge
Counting Coins - BrainPOP Jr. video:
https://jr.brainpop.com/math/money/countingcoins/
Counting Coins Google Slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HE0S0ynxjBaDU-6Laccn1ZoZkkNbu-
ESf--w1CLAF5k/edit?usp=sharing
Materials Counting Coins Worksheet
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KT9XDeto53umwoxQ2e6Zblr5_ARyUls
25SUbhth3N-Q/edit?usp=sharing
ABCYa Learning Coins Game
https://www.abcya.com/games/learning_coins
The students will start their lesson by watching a BrainPOP Jr video that will
Introduction/Hook help explain some main concepts about counting coins.
https://jr.brainpop.com/math/money/countingcoins/
Instructional Students will view a BrainPOP Jr video.
https://jr.brainpop.com/math/money/countingcoins/
Activities & Students will view a Google Slides that will help identify and explain the main
Strategies concepts that will be taught throughout the lesson.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HE0S0ynxjBaDU-6Laccn1ZoZkkNbu-
ESf--w1CLAF5k/edit?usp=sharing
Students will complete a worksheet to test their own knowledge of how to add
the values of coins.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KT9XDeto53umwoxQ2e6Zblr5_ARyUls
25SUbhth3N-Q/edit?usp=sharing
Students will use an instructional learning game to review the values of coins
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)
 and test their knowledge on how to add the values up together.
https://www.abcya.com/games/learning_coins
Key Vocabulary or coins, pennies, nickels, dimes
Concepts
At the end of the lesson the students will be tested on their knowledge by
answering questions in a class discussion post on Schoology. The teacher will
ask questions such as:
Assessments What are ways you can represent 32 cents using coins?
How much money is represented by 2 dimes, 1 nickel, and 4 pennies.
Why is knowing the value of coins important for real life scenarios?
The students will end their lesson by reviewing the values and concepts of
coins, independently, through an educational game on the website ABCYa
Closure Activity Learning.
https://www.abcya.com/games/learning_coins
n/a
Accommodations
BrainPOP Jr Counting Coins Video
https://jr.brainpop.com/math/money/countingcoins/
Resources ABCYa Learning Coins Game
https://www.abcya.com/games/learning_coins

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)
Reflection on a Lesson Plan Taught
Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow
Intern Name: Dallas Wood
Lesson Title (Subecjt/Topc): Math/Counting Coins
Date of Lesson Taught:
Cooperating Teacher & School: Jackson, King’s Grant Elementary School
Grade: First
Time of Day:

1. What steps did you go through to create this lesson? With whom did you talk, discuss, or edit your lesson?
In order to create this lesson I had to do a lot of brainstorming on how I was going to execute the lesson. I
looked online a lot for worksheets that may help with identifying and representing coin values for first grade
objectives, but in the end I decided I was going to use my own worksheet that I created. I created this
worksheet to evaluate the students’ knowledge on coin values and the representation of coin values in certain
scenarios. While online, I found a good review game for the students to use at the end of the lesson. My
coordinating teacher also recommended a BrainPOP video that I included in the start of my lesson. In order to
teach the information, I decided I needed to create a Google Slides to help the kids learn the information that I
was going to be using during the lesson plan. In order to create this lesson, I had to do a lot of online digging
and brainstorming since it was all online.

2. How did the SOLs and Objectives help focus your instruction?
The SOLs and Objectives helped focus my instruction by giving me a set guidelines on what to focus on. The
objectives helped me stay on the topic of the value of coins and made sure I understand what exact points I was
trying to get across. It was a good template to use.

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

The online game and BrainPOP video worked very well with no trouble.

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

After submitting, and after my coordinating teacher published the lesson plan materials, we soon realized that
the links were not accessible by the students. I had to make copies of the worksheet and Google Slides and get
the shareable link so that the students could access the materials.

5. How well did you anticipate the materials needed?

I think I anticipated the materials needed very well. I presented the information needed for the objectives and
the lesson with the materials I provided. I think the number of resources I used for this lesson was very well
coordinated and organized, time-wise.

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?)

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)
I think the assessment I used (class discussion post) is very effective and appropriate for this lesson. It is short
and simple, but the amount of resources I used in this lesson is very beneficial for this assessment. The
assessment is used to help identify which students still need help with the counting coins objectives and which
students understand the lesson well.

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 believe this lesson was very successful because of the turnout of the student responses. The students
responses all demonstrated success but answering all the questions on the counting coins worksheet correctly.

8. How did the time spent preparing for your lesson contribute to its success?
I spent a lot of time trying to find digital applications online to benefit the students success in this lesson. I
think the time I spent paid off because I found very good resources that, in the end, helped the students answer
assessment and worksheet questions correctly. By finding adequate resources, the students were allowed the
opportunity to show off their knowledge.

9. If you could do this lesson again with the same students, would you do anything differently? If so, what?
For this lesson, the only thing I would do differently would be ensuring all the links were available to the
students and that they were accessible by the students. However, I do not think I would change the lesson
itself. I think it is a good way to present coin values and how to add coins together.

10. Any last comments/reflections about your lesson?

I think adding a BrainPOP video for the introduction is a great way to open a lesson in an elementary level class.
It allows information to be presented in an understandable format for first graders.

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Intern Name: ______________________________

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Instructional activities (20)
Accommodations (10)
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)
 Assessment (5)
Vocab, materials, resources (5)
Supplemental materials, if applicable (5)

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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)