By talking to your students pre-lesson and proposing questions about what they already know. You would judge what they know based on the answers they provide. Questions would include: Have you ever revived money and what did it look like? Student can then fill out the Know column in a KWL chart to get their level of individual knowledge.
What would you expect to learn from assessing your students' prior knowledge?
I would expect to learn that kids have had contact with real money. I would also expect they know at least 3 physical features of money including the color, size, shape, etc.
How would this information be useful in the planning process?
This information would be useful in the lesson so that I wasn't reiterating what they already know about the new $20 bill. If I knew the prior knowledge, I could expand or build the topics off of what they know. Also, if they already knew the key points of the lesson and were able to complete the objective prior to the lesson, there would be no point in teaching it.
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