Tell pupils the coin they're going to focus on is called a nickel.
Show students the front and back of the coin. Talk about how a nickel looks on the front and back. Online Schools states "preschool and kindergarten students learn how to identify coins by color, texture, size, and value."
Tell pupils how much a nickel is worth. After telling them that a nickel is worth 5 cents, if they are already familiar with a penny, tell them instead of having 5 pennies, someone could have one nickel because both ways equal 5 cents.
Give students an activity using nickels. Possible activities may be identifying nickels, sorting nickels or making patterns with nickels using the front and back of the coins. Kelly's Kindergarten.com has a money-sorting activity using wallets. The objective is for students to sort nickels, pennies, dimes and quarters into four different wallets.