Happy New Year!
Do you have your confetti and noise makers ready to celebrate the new school year?
We're happy too!
The United States Mint's H.I.P. Pocket Change™ Web site will continue to be your ongoing education resource this year.
You'll find that our fun and creative instructional ideas and tools can enrich and extend your standards-based curriculum in many core content areas.
As the year begins, many teachers are looking for ideas on teaching early US history.
And since coins are History In your Pocket, the H.I.P. Pocket Change Web site can give your students knowledge they can hold onto!
Check out the following resources (click on the icons) for teaching early American history!
This interactive activity will transport your students into the middle of historic events.
Time Machine adventures begin with the colonial era and continue through the year 1956 during the Civil Rights movement.
Want students to learn more about past presidents?
While testing their knowledge of the presidents that are featured on U.S. coins, students use their fast re-call skills to navigate this trivia game.
This activity can be used in conjunction with the Presidential $1 Coin lesson plans.
In Quarter Explorer, students help Bill the Mint Buffalo earn enough quarters to travel across the country.
Students will employ knowledge of United States geography and the quarters in the 50 State Quarters® Program to complete the tasks.
Looking for a quick, engaging activity to introduce a topic or idea?
The Teacher Feature Stockroom is full of them.
Browse them by content area—Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science, and Technology.
A few that support instruction in early US history are "History in the Making," "Declaring Democracy," and "Time to Honor."
The Presidential $1 Coins will run for about 10 years beginning in 2007.
It honors all the past Presidents of the United States who have been dead for at least two years, in the order in which they served in office.
Circulating beside the Sacagawea dollar coin, four new Presidential $1 coins will be struck every year.
Download our
free lesson plans (for kindergarten through twelfth grades) based on the new Presidential $1 coin designs.
What a great opportunity to connect history with the coins in the very pockets of your students!
Want FREE education materials for your classroom?
Visit
www.usmint.gov/$1coin to order free resources to use in conjunction with the Presidential $1 Coin lesson plans.
These plans relate directly to the popular 50 State Quarters Program.
A collection of Kindergarten to 12th grade lesson plans is created at the start of each new calendar year for all five of the quarters that are to be released during that year.
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