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Pennies Make Good Cents: Emergency Lesson Plan

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Look Inside · 7 pages · answer key included

Cover of Pennies Make Good Cents: Emergency Lesson Plan, a penny-themed teaching resource for grades 5–6
Front cover of the emergency lesson packet
Story opening: Christopher and his grandfather discuss pennies, Paul Revere, wartime steel, and Thomas Jefferson
First half of the two-page penny story
Story conclusion: Christopher learns about Lincoln portraits, wheat pennies, and saving coins in a penny jar
Second half of the penny story
Reading response activities ask for three penny facts from the story and personal writing about saving or spending
Story comprehension and personal writing activities
Vocabulary and money practice: write sentences for five sound-alike word pairs and solve two making-change problems
Vocabulary sentences and making-change practice
Penny lesson code puzzle asks students to decode a Lincoln quote and identify the speech it comes from
Lincoln quotation decoding activity

Answer key included

Answer key included
Attributes
Grades

Grade 5, 6

File

PDF

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About This Product

Pennies Make Good Cents: Emergency Lesson Plan

This resource is an excellent option for educators requiring an immediate lesson plan. It can serve as a stand-alone unit or merge into existing schedules, showing that every minute is vital for continuous student learning.

Key Features:
  • It focuses on the history of pennies and the influential characters involved in their making. This allows pupils to interact with social studies content in a more in-depth and analytical way.
  • The unit incorporates an engaging short story, introducing literacy skills within a context. Stories within education enhance understanding and aid memory recall while developing essential Literacy skills across all topics.

This PDF file includes seven pages filled with worksheets designed to strengthen what has been taught during lessons. These tasks consolidate key points from the story about pennies' historical background through reading and guiding questions.

Extension Activities:


Apart from regular teaching materials, Pennies Make Good Cents also provides extension activities for learners who are ready to push beyond the original subject matter while simultaneously improving critical thinking skills.

Note:
This unit is perfect for whole-group instruction when time may be limited but continuous learning necessitated. Alternatively, it can also be used effectively during small-group interaction or even assigned as homework, depending on individual class circumstances.
Conclusion:
Pennies Make Good Cents stands by teachers during moments of unforeseen changes without compromising on the learning experience. With factual knowledge embedded within captivating stories, students gain insights into intriguing historical narratives that enhance their understanding and love for their subject.

What's Included

1 PDF with 7 ready to print pages

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