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"Ch-Ch-Ching Cafe"
Play Restaurant Make Change
Subject:
Math, Language Arts and
Social Studies
Learner Outcomes:
The students will be
required to locate and interpret information and will use thinking skills
to make logical inferences.
The students will use
the dictionary and alphabetizing skills.
The students will use
their math skills to compare prices and compute bills.
Duration of Lesson:
Four Days
Materials:
Menus from different
restaurants: examples Shoney's, Burger King, McDonalds, Hardees, Bob Evans,
Pizza Hut, Captain D's
and other eating
establishments.
Guest check pads, play
money, paper and pencil
Technology Tools/Courseware:
Cash Register, Computer,
Microsoft
Word Processing Program.
Teacher Notes:
1. As a follow up activity
take your class of students to a real restaurant and order from their menu.
2. Ask your parents group
to pay for class outing.
3. Ask for discount for
the meals.
4. Stress manners before
you go to a restaurant.
5. Have students pay
the bill with play money. (Have this previously arrange with restaurant).
6. Have Acceptable Use
Policy Permission slips for student to use the Internet (WV
Policy 2460)
Procedures:
Day 1
1. Show the students examples of the menus.
2. Divide the class into small group. Each group will construct and design
own menu.
3. Groups will use Microsoft Word to design their menu.
4. After the groups design and construct their menu they will publish it.
Print enough for all groups.
Day 2
1. Each group will get own menus.
2. One student will be the waiter/waitress the other will be the customer.
The waiter/waitress will take
customers order. The waiter/waitress
will write the guest check and present the bill to the customer.
3. The customer will pay bill with play money and waiter/waitress works
the cash register and gives
the change to the customer.
Day 3
1. The waiter/waitress of the previous day become the customer today. The
customer from yesterday
becomes the waiter/waitress for today.
Day 4
1. Stress the important of manners.
2. Take a field trip to a local eating establishment.
3. Have students pay their bill with play money. (If previously arranged
with establishment).
Modifications:
Be aware of students
with IEP/504 plans that may require special instructions or reduced.
Enrichment Activities:
If your students that
are able you may add tax and tip to bills.
Evaluation/Assessment:
Student
Rubric
Teacher Observation
Students will use calculators
to check their partners bill
West Virginia Standards:
Math
3.47,
3.48
Language
Arts
3.1
Social
Studies
3.45,
3.9, 3.18
National Standards:
Mathematics:
1. Uses a variety
of strategies in the problem solving process.
2. Understands and
applies basic and advanced properties of the concepts of number.
3. Uses basic and
advanced procedures while performing the processes of computation.
Language
Arts:
1. Uses the general
skills and strategies of the writing process.
2. Uses the general
skills and strategies of the reading process.
Social
Studies:
1. Understands and
knows how to analyze chronological relationships and patterns.
2. Understands how
democratic values came to be, and how they have been exemplified
by people,
events, and symbols.
References:
Teacher:
Math
on the Menu
Aims
Teacher resource
National
Council of Teacher of Mathematics
Student:
Counting
Change
Computer game
Moneyopolis
Online game
Toy
Store
Online game
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Matthew Plante Linda Frye Mary Gannon |