We leaned about Presidents & money!  $$

While learning about Presidents, we took some time to learn about money.  We started off with a couple of songs about money.  We explored each of the coins (penny, nickel, dime, and quarter) with magnifying glasses.  We found that all coins say "In God We Trust" and "LIBERTY".  They have the year that they were made and a D or a P to tell where they were minted.  We also found that they were extremely dirty so we decided to clean the coins.  Mrs. Brockhaus had a few cleaning 'recipes' so we tested them out.  Our predictions and results are pictured below.  For a fun money website click on the penny. 

 

We put our coins in ketchup, barbeque sauce, vinegar, diet coke, dish soap, and water. 

We predicted which would get our coins the cleanest.

 

Here are the coins after 3 days.  You cannot see it from the picture, but the vinegar was the best cleaner!!

 

We spent some time observing and making comparisons of the different coins.  Here's a sample of our coin observations.

Is money magnetic?  You might be surprised!

We made George Washington or Abraham Lincoln from the same pattern.

Will the real Abraham Lincoln please stand up?

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