2010+Money

=Third Grade Unit 4: Money= //What relevant goals (e.g. content standards, course or program objectives, learning outcomes) will this design address?// Learning about money and monetary value || //Students will understand that. . .// //• What are the big ideas?// //• What specific understandings about them are desired?// //• What misunderstandings are predictable?// //**•** What provocative questions will foster inquiry, understanding, and transfer of learning?// What if you wanted something, and didn't have money, how would you get it? Would you try to make money, barter, or something else? || //• What background knowledge and skills will students need to have or be brought up to speed on and how will this be done?// Money and it's basic value || //• What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?// Why we have money, and what it can do //• What should they eventually be able to so as a result of such knowledge and skills?// Make better decisions about money and spending || ====//Students will be able to know. . .//==== //• Through what authentic performance tasks will students demonstrate the desired understandings?// A VoiceThread with what we've learned || ===Other Evidence:=== • Through what other evidence (e.g. quizzes, tests, academic prompts, observations, homework, journals) will students demonstrate achievement of the desired results? • How will students reflect upon and self-assess their learning? || What learning experiences and instruction will enable students to achiever the desired results?
 * ==Stage 1 - Desired Results== ||
 * ===Establish Goals:===
 * ===Understandings:===
 * 1) Understand how money is made and used
 * 2) Basic economics, the exchange of goods and services for some value
 * 1) You can't get something for nothing
 * 2) Money is not the only way to "pay" you can trade services or barter goods
 * 3) Values depend on the market, what people want, and what is available
 * 1) You can get something for nothing
 * 2) You can set your price without considering the market || ===Essential Questions:===
 * ^  || ===Essential Background:===
 * ====//Students will know . . .//====
 * Think of these as secondary skills / content ||
 * ==Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence== ||
 * ===Performance Tasks:===
 * ==Stage 3 - Learning Plan== ||
 * ===Learning Activities:===

understand about money learning what money is watch BrainPop Jr on counting coins online money activities, add pictures to Money VoiceThread
 * Week One**

understand about how money is made learning the minting of money watch a video on Mints online money activities, add questions to VoiceThread
 * Week Two**

understand about how money is used learning the why we use money watch BrainPop Jr on Dollars and Cents online money activities, add questions to VoiceThread
 * Week Three**

understand about economics learning what wants and needs are watch BrainPop Jr on Wants and Needs online money activities, add questions to VoiceThread
 * Week Four**

understand about economics learning what goods and services are watch BrainPop Jr on Goods and Services online money activities, add answers to VoiceThread
 * Week Five**

understand about economics learning about savings and spending watch BrainPop Jr on Saving and Spending online money activities, add answers to VoiceThread
 * Week Six**

reflect on what we've learned thinking about what we've learned online money activities, add answers to VoiceThread
 * Week Seven**

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