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  TEACHING CANADA
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Field Trip to Canada - in your classroom - Exhibit 15

    
Money in the Bank
   
Work with coins and paper money
 

 

Exhibit Supplies     

Pencils, plain white paper, Canadian coins, example of a coin rubbing

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ExhibitTasks 

A)   Use the side of a pencil to make rubbings of six different Canadian coins on a piece of paper.  Make an image of both sides of each coin.  Label the coins on your paper.


B)   Name three or more animals that appear on Canadian coins.

C)   What or who is pictured on all Canadian coins?

D)   Scan or read the article about the Schooner Bluenose.  What might one reason be for the Bluenose to be chosen for the 10-cent coin?  http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/flinn/bluenose/bluenose.html

E)   If a Canadian went to a bank to exchange $5.00(CN) for U.S. money, how much U.S. money would be returned?
          $1.00 (CN) = $0.75 (US)
          $1.00 (US) = $1.32 (CN)

 

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Last Updated: 11 July, 2005



 

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