IA Project: accountability and implementation

Counting coins

My project's purpose was to help second graders learn how to count coins, figure out what coins are needed to create certain amounts of money, and to learn how to make change. For one of the activities I gave a list of items and prices for each one and the students were supposed to use a tool on a website to figure out how many quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies they would need for each item. I would give them a worksheet that had a graph to fill in showing how many of each coin they used for each item.

To use this project in the classroom I would set up centers. I would have a center where the students would be given a certain amount of play money and they would 'buy' as much as they could with their alloted amounts. I would ideally have four cash registers and enough play money for four people. I would put students into pairs and they would take turns being the customer and the cashier. The cashier would have the opportunity to practice making change.
For a second station I would have coin puzzles for them to solve. For example I would provide an assortment of coins and ask them to find the five coins that add up to $0.46. I would use the activities on my IA website as a third station.

IA project

The objective this project meets is 2nd grade, Standard 3 Objective 2a
http://ia.usu.edu/viewproject.php?project=ia:5053

NETS

I liked the information on the website becasue it was fairly common sense that you forget to think about. I will definitely use the "with all," "without," "with any of" feature. It is really frustrating when you do a search and get a few things that are OK, a whole bunch that don't help at all and none that really fit what you want. I think this will help. I also really liked the idea of using exact phrases. It would definitely help to get a more accurate search and would be helpful in finding things you only remember a little about.