Money & Bartering
Compare how we exchange goods and service today to how the ancient Hawaiians did.
Overview
Learn about ancient Hawaiian ahupua‘a and how ancient Hawaiians bartered to get the resources they needed to live. Then learn about and practice counting money, because that is how we get most of the resources we need to live today.
Materials
Goals
Objectives
Common Core State Standards
Next Generation Science Standards
Materials
Vocabulary Lesson
Computer or other device with internet + speakers
Math Concepts Lesson
- Computer or other device with internet + speakers
Exploration Activity
- Computer or other device with internet + speakers
Discovery Lesson
- Computer or other device with internet + speakers
- quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies; OR
- Play Money website OR
- Money Manipulatives
Goals
Understand that bartering helped Native Hawaiians acquire resources needed for survival; and
- Learn different monetary units and practice using them.
Objectives
- Categorize resources as goods or services;
- Identify resources and their uses found in different Hawaiian environments;
- Recognize coins and their values (quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies).
- Add dollars and coins (quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies) to sum an amount.
- Subtract given amounts of money from a total.
Common Core State Standards
2.MD.C.8
Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately. Example: If you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have?
Next Generation Science Standards
2-PS1-2
Every human-made product is designed by applying some knowledge of the natural world and is built by using natural materials.
3-5-ETS1-1
People’s needs and wants change over time, as do their demands for new and improved technologies.
