Our Lesson Plan:
Created By: Andrea Ternullo, Donna Santabarbara, Hannah Hood
Unit Topic: Money management
Grade: 4
Lesson Topic: Using a computer game students will learn about money management
Lesson Objective: Students will be able to describe the process that is needed in order to make a profit while playing the game Coffee Shop. 
 
Instructional Techniques: Students will create groups of three or four to work in to complete the in class activity. When the entire class has finished we will have a class discussion about the activity and how much money the students made and lost while creating their own coffee shop.
Instructional Materials: Worksheet handout, computer, website coolmathgames.com coffee shop game, http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-coffee-shop
 
Theoretical Perspective: This lesson is important for the students to learn because it will help them understand what it takes to make a profit when creating a business. It will also show them that there are different variables that make an influence in creating a business.
 
Procedure:
In order for the Coffee Shop activity to work in our fourth grade class we are first going to begin by having a mini lesson with the students demonstrating how the game works along with the worksheet they will use during the lesson.  The teacher will hand them the worksheet they will be using and the students will remain at their seats while the teacher goes over to the computer and pulls up the Coffee shop game on the classroom computer by going on coolmathgames.com and searching coffee shop. The teacher will then put the game on the smartboard for the entire class to see. Once the game is up on the Smart Board the teacher will go over the instructions with the class on how to use the website. The teacher will first show the class that once the game loads to the computer the students need to click the start button where they will be directed to another screen and they will be asked to name their coffee shop. Once the students name their coffee shop they will click the play button. The teacher will show them how they can change their recipe for the coffee and where to record all the necessary information on the worksheet they have for their evaluation.  The teacher will show them where to find the weather, the day they are on, and their money before and after each day on the screen.  The teacher will show the students where to record this information on the worksheet.  If all of the children understand and no one has any questions then they should be ready to be starting their first day of their business.  The teacher has a sheet with the groups already assigned attached so gather the children in those pairs/groups.  Once there they are going to need to go back to their handout and record the temperature, how much money they started with, cups bought, milk bought, sugar bought (all of this information will be on the computer screen). They will then create a coffee recipe online and record the recipe that each cup is going to be made on their handout  along with how strong/weak the coffee taste is, if the milk is creamy/black, if the sugar is bitter/sweet and how much each cup of coffee costs. (The students need to record information each day as their money and recipe may change) The students will then play the first day of the game and write down how they felt they did along with how much money they ended with, reputation, cups sold, and the price of coffee. This process will continue to be repeated until the students either make a profit all the way until day 14 when the games ends, or they will be asked to restart if they go bankrupt before day seven. When they finish playing students are required to go to the last page of the packet where they will describe why they made a profit and how they did it. Once the entire class finishes the class will come back together as a whole where we will discuss why some groups went bankrupt, why other groups were successful and how, and how this game helped their understanding of money management. One of our adaptations are teachers can assign groups in order to create the highest level of learning. If we know some students have trouble with math we can put them in groups with students who have strong math abilities. Also, if some students have trouble with reading compression we can put them in groups with high reading compression in order for them to be most successful. 
 
Evaluation:  We will know if we met our objective when the class finishes playing the Coffee shop game and each group fills out their self evaluation sheet which can be found in the handout. On the self evaluation the students are asked to write about what things could they have done better, well, and if they went bankrupt why it occurred or what they would have changed. Our class objective was: Students will be able to describe the process that is needed in order to make a profit while playing the game Coffee Shop.  This self evaluation is where the student will prove that the have met the class objective.