Coins, Coins, Coins, Grades 3-5
Coins, Coins, Coins is a dynamic project-based 2 part videoconference series. It allows students, grades 3-5, to explore the history of coins and then create one representing their own communities. This is an ideal complement to a unit on local history and works beautifully as a multi-point connection with another school.
Videoconference #1 introduces coins from ancient Greece to present day USA in the museum’s collection. In videoconference #2 students show their designs and offer a persuasive research based presentation their coin’s local symbolism. Co-developed by The Cleveland Museum of Art and teachers from Newark (Ohio) City Schools, this series is copiously aligned to Social Studies and Language Arts standards and is suitable for multipoint connections between schools, if desired.
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Tetradrachm: Bust Wearing Elephant-Scalp Headdress, Afghanistan, Bactrian period (3rd-2nd century BC), Demetrios I 200-190 BC
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Five Pounds, 1893
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