LisaW

My unit lesson is dealing with money. One of our 3rd grade Open Court reading units is Money. Students read 6 stories dealing with the history of money, how it has changed, bartering, etc. My 3rd grade team has discussed how to culminate this unit with a PBL. We decided that students could create their own money system to use on a shopping day. Each class would create a product and set the prices using U.S. dollars. The students would use their money system to buy items in other classes. Each student would need to create a conversion chart for their system. The Visual Ranking tool could work well as students learn about different money systems through out history. See Reasoning could work as students investigate why some money systems failed or were altered. Some issues we have already run into is mostly the conversion of the money. Students have great difficulty seeing how one money amount relates to another. Type in the content of your page here.

May 12, 2010
====I enjoyed having the time to work in the tools. Finding that the set-up is really quite easy was a big relief. I had originally thought of using the Showing Evidence tool. Now I'm not sure. I think visual ranking will work well --ranking which money forms were most useful. ====