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Description

Extension activity for the Europe Badge. Create a collection of rubbings of national sides of €1 coins, trying to find one from each country. Brownies will reinforce their knowledge of EU member states (and others who use the Euro). Encourages curiosity about different countries and cultures. Reinforces understanding of similarities and differences (diversity). Also counts towards the Collector Badge. Can be done as a Pack challenge.

Resources

National sides reference information in home-made booklet form (attached), taken from website of European Central Bank https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/coins/1euro/html/index.en.html
Crayons
Tracing paper squares

Instructions

Overview: Many (but not all) of the EU member countries use the Euro as a common currency. Show example pictures of the banknotes (front and back) and common sides of the coins. Remember that Brownies are too young to remember the days before the Euro was introduced. They might need to be told about the Irish Pound/punt Éireannach, with an explanation that each nation had its own currency before the EU was formed. The Irish pound was replaced by the Euro on 1 January 1999. Euro currency did not begin circulation until the beginning of 2002.

Challenge the Brownie Pack to borrow €1 coins from home to bring into meetings. Aim is for the Pack to collect as many different national sides of the €1 coins as they can manage. Brownies can check the reference guide to see where each coin is from and make a rubbing of the national side of each coin. Findings can be recorded by ticking the reference guide or on a tally chart.

Tags

• collector
• cultural diversity
• diversity
• EU
• Europe
• gce
• global citizenship education
• sdg 10 reduced inequalities
• SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
• sdgs
• similarities / differences

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