Please feel free to use and modify the lesson plan below, according to your students' needs. Thank you.
Good Monkey Lesson Plan
1. Anticipatory Set: Teacher focuses students on the lesson; may connect it to prior learning.
Ask the students: “Did you know that 800 million people around the world go to bed hungry each night? When was the last time
you went to bed hungry? How do you think it feels to go to bed hungry?”
2. Continue with questions to peak students’ interests: “Why do you think people go hungry?”
3. Brainstorm with class and write ideas on the board.
4. Instruction: Students acquire new information.
5. Let’s pretend that your family just moved to India, and your father earns $3.00 a day.
6. What things or food can you buy for $3.00? Do you think $3.00 can feed a family of 4 every day?
7. Teacher reviews the values of coins used to purchase goods: quarter, dime, nickel, and penny.
8. Students write on their paper the value of each coin.
9.Teacher provides students a small bag of play money and as a class have the students to identify coins by holding coin up and
give value out loud.
10. Then teacher introduces various items with prices on them that students can buy with the money in their bags:
Juice box - $ 0.75
Jump rope - $ 0.85
Comb - $ 0.90
Candy bar - $ 0.85
Pen - $ 0.50
Apple - $ 0.55
Notebook - $ 0.65
Crackers - $ 0.60
Pencil - $ 0.25
And others as needed for students
Guided Practice: Teacher supervises the students as they practice new learning.
11. Have the students go in groups of three and have students repeat the same activity by giving their partners various amounts of money. Give students time to repeat this activity several times and play with the coins.
12. Teacher goes around and checks to see if students are understanding the activity and values of coins.
13.Teacher provides an activity to review the lesson. Teacher gives each group a bucket with six of the various items listed above to purchase. Each group will play store with those items. One student will be the store owner to sell the items. The other
students will take turns purchasing those items with the coins they have. Each student will have $2.00 worth of coins to play
with.
14. Teacher allows the students time to share information they learned about money and buying things. (Connection to The Good
Monkey Project: discuss the different ways that the students can help kids that go hungry. Then, talk about the Kids Can Make
a Difference Project.
16. Independent Practice: Teacher provides opportunity for unsupervised practice, if students are ready. Give each store owner a
three to four minute limit so that each group member has time to be the store owner at these once. Teacher monitors group
work and provides assistance when needed. Teacher will go around to assess and give feedback to students. This way,
students will know if they are counting the money correctly as they buy products from the store owner.
Good Monkey Lesson Plan
1. Anticipatory Set: Teacher focuses students on the lesson; may connect it to prior learning.
Ask the students: “Did you know that 800 million people around the world go to bed hungry each night? When was the last time
you went to bed hungry? How do you think it feels to go to bed hungry?”
2. Continue with questions to peak students’ interests: “Why do you think people go hungry?”
3. Brainstorm with class and write ideas on the board.
4. Instruction: Students acquire new information.
5. Let’s pretend that your family just moved to India, and your father earns $3.00 a day.
6. What things or food can you buy for $3.00? Do you think $3.00 can feed a family of 4 every day?
7. Teacher reviews the values of coins used to purchase goods: quarter, dime, nickel, and penny.
8. Students write on their paper the value of each coin.
9.Teacher provides students a small bag of play money and as a class have the students to identify coins by holding coin up and
give value out loud.
10. Then teacher introduces various items with prices on them that students can buy with the money in their bags:
Juice box - $ 0.75
Jump rope - $ 0.85
Comb - $ 0.90
Candy bar - $ 0.85
Pen - $ 0.50
Apple - $ 0.55
Notebook - $ 0.65
Crackers - $ 0.60
Pencil - $ 0.25
And others as needed for students
Guided Practice: Teacher supervises the students as they practice new learning.
11. Have the students go in groups of three and have students repeat the same activity by giving their partners various amounts of money. Give students time to repeat this activity several times and play with the coins.
12. Teacher goes around and checks to see if students are understanding the activity and values of coins.
13.Teacher provides an activity to review the lesson. Teacher gives each group a bucket with six of the various items listed above to purchase. Each group will play store with those items. One student will be the store owner to sell the items. The other
students will take turns purchasing those items with the coins they have. Each student will have $2.00 worth of coins to play
with.
14. Teacher allows the students time to share information they learned about money and buying things. (Connection to The Good
Monkey Project: discuss the different ways that the students can help kids that go hungry. Then, talk about the Kids Can Make
a Difference Project.
16. Independent Practice: Teacher provides opportunity for unsupervised practice, if students are ready. Give each store owner a
three to four minute limit so that each group member has time to be the store owner at these once. Teacher monitors group
work and provides assistance when needed. Teacher will go around to assess and give feedback to students. This way,
students will know if they are counting the money correctly as they buy products from the store owner.