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Winning At The Money Game: Basketball - PBL - Financial Literacy 3rd-12th grade

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Grade Levels
3rd - 12th
Standards
Formats Included
  • PDF
Pages
26 pages

Description

Looking for the perfect PBL Financial Literacy lesson that engages students in solving a real-world problem or answering a complex question? Try Winning At The Money: Basketball - PBL #1-4. In this free 26-page booklet students actively explore real-world problems and challenges and acquire transferable knowledge. Below is an example of our student objectives from one of our lessons.

Students will be able to:

  • Locate different videos or articles on how to make a basketball court in your backyard https://youtu.be/LDrhg3ga3I0 8:59 mark
  • Analyze the different types of materials used to make a basketball court: What are the pros and cons of the different types of material
  • Calculate how much it will cost to make a half court and full court basketball court:
  • Illustrate the Area of Rectangle formula plus the cost per square footage used in resource the video link.
  • Resource Square Footage Calculator: Feet to Square Ft Conversion (thecalculatorsite.com)
  • Create a 3 - 5 Google Slide Presentation about what you learned

OR

  • Design your WATMG Basketball Court Protype (Half court or Full court). Use our Origami Basketball hoop rim prototype (Half court or Full court), Legos, A Shoe box, Popsicle sticks, or whatever safe, but creative way to design your court with rim. It must be colorful and no bigger than 8.5 in. X 11 in.
  • Generate a creative how-to video to teach your classmates how you created your WATMG Basketball Court with Basketball hoop rim.
  • Create a 1 Google Slide Presentation

CLICK on the links below to find out more about our financial literacy program Winning At The Money Game: Basketball

  1. Winning At The Money Game: Basketball Commercial (VIDEO)
  2. Winning At The Money Game Soundtrack (VIDEO)
  3. Origin story about our company: Winning At The Money Game: Basketball (VIDEO)
Total Pages
26 pages
Answer Key
Does not apply
Teaching Duration
2 Weeks
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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement.
A square with side length 1 unit, called “a unit square,” is said to have “one square unit” of area, and can be used to measure area.
Measure areas by counting unit squares (square cm, square m, square in, square ft, and improvised units).
Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.
Find the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths by tiling it, and show that the area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths.

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