An interactive webquest designed for Grade One

by Beth Haile

Introduction  l  Task  l  Process  l  Evaluation  l  Conclusion  l  Special Note

Introduction:

Do you like money?   That's a silly question, isn't it!   You use money to buy the things you need like your lunch at school, and to buy some things you really don't need like candy and toys.   You need to know how to count money so that you can pay for the items that you buy.   So . . . you will be working with money - identifying and counting coins.

I want you to be the teacher.   A new student has joined our class and needs your help.   As the teacher, you will be working through the money activities in this quest with the new student.   You will be helping the new student learn to identify and count coins  -  pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.   At the end you will have to determine how well the new student could identify a penny, a nickel, a dime, and a quarter and how well the new student could count these coins.

Process:                                                                        

Here are some great activities that will help the new student learn to recognize coins and count these coins.   The sites are in order so that  the new student will be challenged as he/she moves through the activities.   Have fun being the teacher!

First you will be learning to recognize a penny, a nickel, a dime, and a quarter.

1.  Let's start with a penny.   Learn about the penny at  The Penny .   Practice counting pennies some more by clicking on  START  and then

clicking on the pink wallet.   Here you can see the front and back of a penny.

2.  Next, learn about the nickel at  The Nickel .  Practice counting just nickels at  Nickels .  Counting by nickels is just counting by 5's.

3.  What does a dime look like?  Learn about dimes at  The Dime  .   A dime is 10¢.  Counting by dimes is counting by 10's.   Practice

counting by dimes at  Dimes  .

4. Quarters are big coins.  See what a quarter looks like at  The Quarter .   Count the quarters at the bottom of the page.        

Now you can recognize a penny, a nickel, a dime, and a quarter!  You know the value of each coin.  Use what you just learned to practice counting coins.  It's time for   !

1.  Play Money to Build a Robot .   You can build a robot that flies by counting the correct number of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters in the change purse.

2.  Next, practice counting coins by dragging the coins in the piggy bank  .   You must put the correct number of coins in the piggy bank or the coins won't stay in the bank.   Practice putting coins in your piggy bank at home to save some of your money!

3.  In the Spending Spree game you can choose which toy you want to buy.   Then you have to choose which set of coins to spend for your toy.

4.  Let's Go Shopping is fun to play.   Choose which item you want to buy and then click on the coins and drag them to the box under the item you want to buy.

Now, read together the  Money Poem .       

Evaluation:

These games gave you lots of coin practice.   Now you must decide how well the new student did on this   .   Please use the rubric to decide how well the new student can recognize coins and count them.  Click on the penny to go to the rubric.      

Conclusion:

You were a great teacher!   The new student you helped learned a lot about recognizing coins and counting them.   Playing the counting coin games was fun for the new student and for you.   Being able to count money is a useful skill.   You can come back and "teach" these counting coin games to other friends.