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Lesson Plan - Sped
Lesson Plan - Sped
Lesson Plan - Sped
Standards of M-HS 4: The student will: Use currency for problems involving $100 or less
Learning
How can I use money to pay for food?
How can I distribute the correct amount of change?
Essential Questions How can I effectively use/stay on a budget?
Students will be able to… purchase items under $100 and be able to correctly
figure out the amount of change needed.
Objectives
Learning Target Be able to correctly distribute the amount of change needed for the transaction.
- Money amounts → how much each dollar amounts to
- Communicate respectfully with a vendor
Necessary Prior - How to add prices of different products together → addition
Knowledge - Patiently wait to be served → patience
- Fake money
- Fake concession stand
- Products → the items we will be selling
- Receipts
Materials - Posters where they have our prices and items on
- Check list with total prices on it
- Calculator
Students are about to attend their very first football game! Before the game
starts students want to grab some snacks. They head to the concession stand to
see their options. Students have to stay on a budget and purchase some snacks.
Introduction/Hook While others are working behind the stand giving out the change. We will rotate
the students half way during the lesson, so both will be able to experience being
a clerk.
Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
- Students will approach the concession stand and ask vendors what
products they would like to purchase.
- With the money that the students have, they will have to figure out what
products they are able to buy and still be within the budget
Instructional - The students will communicate with the vendors and politely acquire
their wanted concessions.
Activities & - After they have completed interacting with the vendor, they will proceed
Strategies to check their receipts given to them by the vendor and make sure that
the vendor gave the student the accurate amount of change.
- Students will have to calculate their own total on the receipt to make
sure that the change they were given by the vendor matches the total.
- Calculator → 4 by 4
- Each students will have a VTfT student to accompany them with their
Accommodations math
- Fake menus
- Fake money
- Food
Resources - Receipts
- Clipboards
- pencils
Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
1. What steps did you go through to create this lesson? With whom did you talk, discuss, or edit your lesson?
2. How did the SOLs and Objectives help focus your instruction?
6. How effective was the assessment you chose to use? (If no assessment was used, what will the future
assessment be and how will you gauge its effectiveness?)
7. To what degree do you feel that this lesson was a success? What evidence do you have for the success of
the lesson? (Hint: Student learning is the key to a lesson’s success!)
8. How did the time spent preparing for your lesson contribute to it’s success?
9. If you could do this lesson again with the same students, would you do anything differently? If so, what?
Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)