Coins for kids

abmluce

I was thinking about asking my sons 4th grade teacher if I could come in the class and teach the class about older coins. Of course I would show them examples of my collection. At the end I was thinking about passing out circulated buffs to each kid. Has anyone here done something like this, and if so, any tips? Thanks, Mark

DanC

http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=140786

Looking to get some other members involved here....

GREAT IDEA!

MrKelso

Try to schedule it for after there lunch break as children seem to be awake by then and more alert then in the morning. I did something like this with my grandson for a show and tell
type event but not with coins. We showed some very old 1890 to 1920 Flashlights and lanterns all working. The kids Flipped and the teachers went bonkers. The teachers were all on ebay
that night searching for eveready flashlights.

The kids will enjoy handling the old coins.

Good Luck

ursabear

Mark,

I don't have any spare Buffs, but have some nice circulated Mercurys I could spare for giveaways. Let me know if you want some of them...

Jimmy Bear

abmluce

Ty Jimmy, actually I also have a couple rolls of mercs. I think I'll pass those out instead.

Kejun99

Is there a National Coin Day ? That would be neat... a good time for everyone to pass into circulation some old neat coins...

its4real

PQpeace always sends "kiddy coins" with anything he sells - usually a few circ wheaties. Nice touch

I think anytime you have a chance to expand the group of collectors- do it.

danglen

Most elementary schools and middle schools would welcome someone that can come in and talk about coins. Last year, I did a project with a local middle school where I selected eight world coins and made up a few questions on each coin. A class of 28 kids was divided into seven teams of four kids, and each team got a coin, then had to do some reserch on their particular coin and answer some questions about it. The results were amazing. With access to the internet, these kids knew more about each coin in short order than I did, and all of them agreed it was one of the more interesting projects they had been handed all year. I was recently asked to repeat the project for the new class this year.

DanC

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