Sharon Bock

Jefferson Township School District

Lesson Plan:  The United States Mint 50 State Quarters Program

Content:

            The United States Mint 50 state quarters program

Learning Objective:

            The student will devise mnemonic device to remember order of thirteen original states to enter the union.  (study skills link and story method)

            The student will be able to connect the states to a whole---country

            The students will gain an understanding of reasons the government chose to issue the new state quarters.

            The students will observe real coins for similarities and differences.

            The students will construct and devise a Jefferson Quarter to enable comprehension of relevance of state symbols and significance.

Product:

            Create mnemonic device to remember the thirteen original states in the order they entered the Union – reconstruct order of states.

            Construction of a Jefferson Township Coin; student relevance

Process:

            The student will view Power Point presentation, internet visuals and overhead projection of quarters, participate in memory enhancing activity and group collaboration, construct a Jefferson Township Coin, followed by review and student questions of interest.

Instructional Activities:

            The teacher will motivate by…

• Introduce U.S. Mint quarters-color coded reproductions, worksheets (Internet)
• Guide students with visuals
• Model mnemonic story device
• Allow students to design a Jefferson Township quarter

Research:

            Mind/Brain Learning Principles:  Caine and Caine

            School-wise Teaching Academic Patterns fo the Mind:  Barickman, Joan Estes

            The U.S. Mint:  Internet, June, 99, The U.S. mint 50 State Quarters

Explain/List Assessment Criteria by…

• Student gourp activity
• Create Jefferson Township coin
• Worksheets
• Mnemonics
• Cross curriculum activities
• Discovery-student questions-constructivism
• Interactive discussion
• Evaluate creative coins (created by students)
• Test sequence of states in order into Union

Close Lesson by…

• Summary statement
• Journal entry
• Portfolio – student’s Jefferson quarter
• Discuss further interest of state quarters

Materials:

• Internet data
• Internet quarter reproduction
• Real coins (group sets)
• Storyboard for writing, illustrating story for mnemonics
• Visuals
• Power Point presentation
• Overhead projection of quarter differences (likenesses and differences)

Differentiation:

• Tactile – real coins to manipulate, touch (size, shape, color, weight, texture)
• Auditory – abstract to concrete; student-teacher interaction
• Visual – group Internet resources, real quarters, work sheets, storyboard, color coding
• Cerebral – sequencing activities, collaborative activities, likenesses and differences, mnemonic skills
• Ethnicity – diversity in state coin production/illustrations

Core Curriculum Content Standards:

3.2, 3.5 Language Arts Literacy, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4 Math, 5.2, 5.4, 5.7 Science, 6.1 Social Studies.