Designed by:  Sarita Poston, Karen Post, Kristy Pickens & Patty Sharp

• 1.0 The student will develop number and operation sense needed to represent numbers and number relationships verbally, symbolically, and graphically and to compute fluently and make reasonable estimates in problem solving.
• 3.1.1 Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems.

Objectives

• Students will count the value of the combinations of coins and bills up to $5.
• Students will make change from a transaction that is less than a dollar.

Duration of Learning Web: One Week

Materials Needed:  Four computers, Internet Access, Printer, PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft Word, Pencils and Paper, Plastic coins and paper bills

Activity #1 Let's Count Money! (Knowledge, Application, Analysis, Synthesis)
Before you open your lemonade stand, you want to practice counting money and making change from $5.00. Before you begin your activity, remember our scaffolding exercise about clicking on a picture, dragging and dropping it where you want it to go.

Begin your practice by clicking on the bag of money and following the directions given at the top of the page.
When you are finished with your activity, print and turn in for assessment.

For additional practice counting change please go to the following websites:

http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/mathmoney.html

http://www.primarygames.com/Spending%20Spree/question_1.htm

After Activity #1 you realize you may need a little more practice counting money and making change.  Before you begin the next activity click on the button   and print the scaffolding directions in order to view your PowerPoint activity You begin your next activity by clicking on the bag of money. Write your answers on a sheet of notebook paper and turn in for assessment.

For additional practice counting change please go to the following websites:

http://www.mrnussbaum.com/cashout/index.html

http://www.playtolearn.com/coins.asp

It is time for you to sell lemonade! You worked for a whole day and now it is time to determine if you made enough money for your water park admission. Remember our discussion about spreadsheets. We learned about rows and columns and how to add them up.    Click on the money bag icon and print out the scaffolding directions to create your spreadsheet. Print your completed spreadsheet. On your bottom of your spreadsheet add the $5.00 you started with plus the amount you made on your lemonade sales.  Do you have enough money for your water park? Turn in your spreadsheet for assessment.

Across the Curriculum

• Science - Combining water, sugar and lemons to make lemonade

• Art - Use Microsoft Word to create a sign for our lemonade stand

• Social Studies - Find out where lemons grow and looking at the location of your favorite water park

• Math - Measurements when making the lemonade

• Upon completion of each activity, the teacher will monitor and assess each student's work for understanding. At the conclusion of the unit, the students will have a formal evaluation on number and number systems.

• Set up a lemonade stand at an open house or fall carnival to raise money for the local food bank.

• A class lemonade party at the completion of the unit.

www.sunkist.com/kids/lemonade/

www.alexslamonade.org