Making Money

SEE THINK WONDER

What do you see in the picture? What do you think is happening and what was the artist trying to tell you with this picture? What does this picture make you wonder about?

Money Collage by Mark Wagner

https://medium.com/pocketsmith/meet-the-man-who-destroys-money-to-make-art-c9d2d2e5f0a6

Assignment

Create your own money


  1. Choose a theme for your money that links all elements together for example: football, music, animals

  2. Choose a person to honor on the obverse ( front) of the bill it could be an award winner in the field you have chosen for your theme, a MVP, or your personal favorite

  3. for the reverse (back side) , choose a place, event or artifact to feature in the center of the bill

  4. Choose motif to create a pattern that is inspired by your theme. There are decorative elements on money to make it both attractive and to protect it against counterfeiting.

  5. Choose a denomination for your bill between 1 and 100.

  6. Choose a color scheme for your bill.


MOney from around the world

Money and its protections

Why This lesson

We are focusing on on elements of both design and information. Thorugh this lesson students will learn about the different parts of what makes up a bill and why those elements exist including security features and the technology used to create these elements. we will learn about portraiture, pattern, motif, and emphasis. We will also investigate printing techniques and investigate etching (the technique in making money printing plates) Studetns will print their own bill. Questions investigated will be why bill have these features , training needed to persue money design, the history of money, Money as an idea or concept and intangible

paper v. metal (coin) money, definition of trade (services and goods).

Vocabulary

money: a current medium of exchange in the form of coins and banknotes; coins and banknotes collectively

trade: the action of buying and selling goods and services

currency: a system of money in general use in a particular country (there are a lot of different kinds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_currencies )

exchange: the rate that each counry will trade their currency for another country's currency (https://www.x-rates.com )

etch: Etching is an intaglio printmaking process in which lines or areas are incised using acid into a metal plate in order to hold the ink. In etching, the plate can be made of iron, copper, or zinc.

motif

pattern

focal point

counterfeit


shekel

It wasn't until about 5,000 years ago that the Mesopotamian people created the shekel, which is considered the first known form of currency. Gold and silver coins date back to around 650 to 600 B.C. when stamped coins were used to pay armies. Some evidence suggests that metal coins may be as old as 1250 B.C.


The History of Money: How Our Currency Evolved from Pelts to Money

https://mint.intuit.com/blog/investing-2/the-history-of-money/