The students are then immersed in an economics activity as they shop in the teacher made puppet supply store where they are given one dollar to buy items to make a paper bag puppet. You may use a picture of the coins rather than words. If you wish to use the chart for other activities, you may make cards with labels that students could place at the top of the columns. Activity Sheets are located at the bottom of the .pdf Lesson Plan. Activity Sheets are located at the bottom of the .pdf Lesson Plan.
Procedure Show the class a drawer or bank full of coins.
Choose an amount of money and challenge students to find various coin combinations that represent that value. You may want to use the date and have students use that number as an example. Put a nickel and dime in your pocket. Then tell the class that you have fifteen cents in your pocket, but do not disclose the coin combination. Challenge them to determine all of the possible combinations of coins that equal fifteen cents.