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Australian Coins Lesson Plans & Activities Kit

Teaching Money is broken down into 8 areas:

1. Coin Recognition – Recognise features, describe & order coins
2. Note Recognition – Recognise features, describe & order notes
3. Collections – Count and order small collections of notes & coins
4. Equivalences – Show money values in multiple ways
5. Change – Give change to nearest 5 cents
6. Problem Solving -Solve money word problems involving change
7. Simple Financial Planning – simple budgets
8. Percentage Discounts

We have used this breakdown to create a range of differentiated activities to meet the needs of the students and not just the Year level requirements.

These coin printables in our Australian Coins Lesson Plans & Activities Kit are focussed on coin recognition and include activities that allow your students to discover:

• Coins are different in other countries
• The features of coins – colour, size, shape, animals or people featured
• Which coins are worth more or less than others
• How to sort coins according to criteria – size, shape, colour and more
• Different coins represent different amounts
• The size of the coin doesn’t represent the value of the coin
• How to record coin values using, numbers, words & symbols

Teaching Australian Money Kit Contents

• 19 Secured PDF Files (no copy, paste, eatracting, editing or customising of the info in this file). To print correctly you need the latest version of ADOBE Reader DC (FREE)
• Teacher Lesson/ Unit Plan – Everything you need to teach the coins unit. The teacher lesson Plan includes teaching focus, Achievement Standard, grade overview, children’s books and website suggestions, activities overview.
• Pre & Post Assessment Tasks
• Teacher Checklists
• 9 Student Activities Checklist
• Teacher Demonstration Visuals
• Classroom Visuals
• 8 Different Coin Frayer Model Thinkboards. Perfect for warm ups, Lesson Closure, centers and Assessment
• (Notes Not included)

Australian Coins Activities

1. Piggy Banks – 9 different piggy bank sheets perfect for coin rubbing to help identify the features of Australian coins
2. Wanted Coins – Kids will love learning about the features of Australian coins with this fun Wanted Coins Activity. Print as A3 or A4 and laminate or as a student coin booklet!
3. Coin Thinkboards -Sorting Coins Thinkboards are great for centers, assessment and warm up activities. There are 39 different tasks in this download
4. Jigsaws – 5 different Australian Coin jigsaw puzzles to help kids learn about the features of Australian Coins. Includes colour and B&W versions
5. Mazes – 36 different variations of these coin tracing mazes. Laminate or use a reusable pocket. Students match images, money words, digits and names
6. Card Games – These coin recognition cards can be used in so many different ways, snap, war, matching. There’s 36 written feature cards and 36 picture cards
7. Spinner Games – These spinners add a new level to bingo math games. They’re much more fun for kids to learn the features of Australian Coins. There are 4 versions available in with a decorative background or a low ink version. You decide!
8. Colour By Code Coin Detective – There are 3 versions of the Coin detective worksheets  Kids have to find, sort and colour the coins
9. Make A Mini Coin Book – Kids will love making this mini coin booklet. Each coin has it’s own page and kids have to colour in the true statement about each coin. It’s such a fun way to learn all the features of Australian coins.

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