Create Your own Ice Cream Shop PBL Project WITH RUBRIC and Answer Key Grades 5-8

This math PBL project will have your students practicing real-world math applications while having fun!

- Students will learn real world applications such as creating a company website, creating a help wanted advertisement, calculating tips on orders, running and calculating inventory costs, coupon application, drawing a model of their shop, designing a menu with prices, deciding who they should hire based on credentials given, handling different customer inquiries, and best yet this project will bring out their creative side!

-Also contains real world problems containing ice cream situations. Topics for the word problems include ratios and proportions, least common multiple, and fractions.

-Two ELA components where students must describe their restaurant concept & reflect at the end of the project.

This project based learning task is a great extension and enrichment activity for your early finishers. It allows them to open their own ice cream shop! They must make several decisions about their new business, practicing several common core math standards along the way.

As students work through each part of the project, they will make their own decisions and choose the outcome. By the end, all students will have completed the project, but they will each be different on the creator’s imagination, creativity, and knowledge base. At the end of the project, students can present their ice cream shop creations and work in partners to choose menu items and calculate the total bill including tip.

-Ideally designed for grades 5-8

The project consists of 13 parts & has 25 pages including a 1 page rubric.

-Includes an answer key, and rubric.

This product includes a printable version & Digital Google Classroom version

*Note the Google Classroom version does not contain Clipart and has a different font.

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