General Educator: Teacher 1
Special Service Provider: Teacher 2
Co-Teaching
Lesson Plan
Subject Area:
Math
Grade level:
3rd
Content Standard: MA 3.1.12
Lesson Objective: Students will be able to solve money problems
Essential Questions: If you only have $ 10 to spend, would you buy the things you need or things you like?
Key Vocabulary: money, spending, buying, budgeting
Pre-Assessment: determine how familiar each student is with various denominations of money
Materials:
imaginary shopping catalog, $pretend $5 bills, 1 dollar bills.
Lesson
Co-teaching
Approach
Time
General Education
Teacher
Special Service
Provider
Considerations (may
include adaptations,
differentiation,
accommodation, or
student- specific needs).
Teacher 1 passes out five $ 1
bills to each student.
Teacher 2 passes out one $
5 bill to each student
Give enlarged money bills
to Jason and Brandon.
Tell students that they will
spend some money as they
do a little imaginary
shopping from a catalog.
Pass out catalog to each
student.
Tell students that they will
spend some money as they
do a little imaginary
shopping from a catalog.
Pass out catalog to each
student.
(can select more
than one)
Beginning:
(may include:
Opening;
Warm Up;
Review;
Anticipatory
Set)
One Teach,
One Support
Parallel
Alternative
Station
Team
5 min
General Educator: Teacher 1
Middle:
(may include:
Instruction;
Checking for
Understanding;
Independent or
Group
Practice)
End:
(may include:
Closing,
Assessments,
Extension of
the Lesson)
Special Service Provider: Teacher 2
One Teach,
15 min
One Support
Parallel
Alternative
Station
Team
Teacher 1 and Teacher 2 will
tell students that they only
have $10 to spend. They
need to fill in the order form,
and add to find the total. Fill
out order form.
Both teachers walk around
and help entire class to
complete order form. Make
sure their purchases should
not exceed $ 10.
One Teach,
15 min
One Support
Parallel
Alternative
Station
Team
Divide students in 2 groups.
Both teachers will facilitate
their own groups so students
have more time to share.
Students will share the items
that they selected from the
catalog with their peers and
say the total purchase price.
Prizes can be given to the
student who is closest to $10
without going over and the
student who saved the most
money.
Both teachers walk around
and help entire class to
complete order form. Make
sure their purchase should
not exceed $ 10.
Divide students in 2
groups. Both teachers will
facilitate their own groups
so students have more time
to share.
Students will share the
items that they selected
from the catalog with their
peers and say the total
purchase price.
Jenny and Vicki will pass
out an example of items
that doesn’t exceed $10
limit to both groups.