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Basic operations simulations under $5
Budget Spreadsheet Project (personal finance & math skills)
A step-by-step project with detailed instructions on how to set up an Excel spreadsheet budget. Students will apply math skills in context of a real-life budgeting situation.
Students will create a budget:
-Based on their future career choice.
-Independently by following the instructions using an Excel Spreadsheet.
-Over the course of at least 2 class periods (typically students take at least 2.5 hours to complete this project).
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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Project Based Learning: Measurement Conversions, Math and Language Skills
Engage your students with this fun project! Students work in teams or individually to design a dog house. A variety of math skills are practiced including area,volume, measurement conversions, addition, subtraction, and multiplication. ELA skills are also integrated as students write persuasive letters and give oral presentations on their creations. Giving students relevant contexts to apply skills is a meaningful way for students to construct conceptual understanding and see a useful appli
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle for Dog Lovers
Percents: Understanding Credit Card Debt Worksheet for Student - Scenario 1
The question listed on Scenario 1 is as follows:
"In this scenario we purchased 1 item for $1000. (This could be a new TV, summer vacation, Laptop, etc.) We did not have the cash at the time so we charged it to our Visa. This particular credit card requires that we make a minimum payment of 13% each month. It also has an APR of 10%. Fill out the chart to find out how much you have paid at the end of the year and if you have a remaining balance. "
The chart is a great way for students to disc
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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Dinosaur Themed Differentiated Multiplication Project
Turn your students into paleontologists with this differentiated multiplication project. Your students will totally "dig" getting to create their paleontologist ID badge, buying their paleontology tools, setting up their dig site, and using their magnifying glasses on different dino bones. This product includes pages that help students practice basic, single digit multiplication and multi-digit multiplication (2 digit x 1 digit and 2 digit x 2 digit). This product also helps students practice
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
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Also included in: 3rd Grade Math Project Bundle
The Game of Life | Math Exploration
PURPOSE: This simulation gives your math class a chance to experience what it is like to be an adult. Students will be randomly assigned a job and a family and be required to calculate a month’s worth of expenses.This activity brings up some great discussions about how money works, what happens when the money runs out, single parenting, managing a budget and so much more. This is such a useful resource for the modern middle school mathematics teacher!WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains:✏️ 18 p
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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3rd Grade Math Gingerbread Escape Room
Looking for something a little challenging, incredibly engaging, and slightly different from an ordinary day? Escape room challenges have all of that and more.In this escape room challenge, the students must escape from being stuck in Gingerbread Village after getting lost on a lovely winter sleigh ride. They can only get out if they can successfully navigate their way through 5 math challenges.This challenge has students apply skills in place value, order of operations, multi-digit addition/sub
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
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Also included in: 3rd Grade Math Holiday Escape Room Bundle
Santas Workshop Christmas Math Project and Activities | Project Based Learning
Looking for the BEST Christmas math activities for your class? The Santa's workshop Christmas math project is the answer! Students will love this 10 day group Christmas math project based learning activity.What IS Santa's Workshop Christmas Math Project Based Learning Activity?Students will learn about economics and math at the same time! This ten day Christmas math project unit starts with a letter from Santa asking students to help him make a workshop for the North Pole. Students will build Sa
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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Thanksgiving Feast: Project Based Instruction
Engage your students in this relevant project where they plan a Thanksgiving feast. From calculating serving sizes and calories from real food labels, to making a shopping list and sticking to a budget. This project helps students see the real life uses for a variety of math skills. Editable price tags allow you to differentiate for your students. Activities included in this product: Activity 1: Making A Shopping List: Student read real food labels to find serving size on a variety of Than
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle
SONAR Calculations and Graphing
In this classroom activity, students are guided through the calculations necessary to obtain ocean depth from SONAR data. Then they use data to complete a profile of the part of ocean floor from which the data came. Please note: this does not show all the parts of the ocean floor. Image and activity where adapted from Naval History STEM H.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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The Chocoloate Shop: Project Based Learning
Engage your students in a fun relevant project creating and managing a chocolate shop. A variety of skills are used in this project including basic math skills such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Fractions, percents, and measurement conversions are also used. Students engage in language arts skills as well such as reading direcitons, writing, and creative art. Use this project over the course of a week, individually, partners, or cooperative groups; the possibilities
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle
Escape the Haunted House-A Third Grade Math Escape Room Activity
Looking for something a little challenging, incredibly engaging, and slightly different from an ordinary day? Escape room challenges have all of that and more.In this escape room challenge, the students must escape the haunted house they ended up at when their field trip bus broke down. They can only break out if they can successfully navigate their way through 5 math challenges.This challenge has students apply skills in place value, order of operations, multi-digit addition/subtraction, and
Grades:
3rd - 4th
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Also included in: 3rd Grade Math Holiday Escape Room Bundle
Smartboard: The Doorbell Rang
This is a Smartboard file to be used while reading The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins. The file consists of 5 screens, each with an increasing number of plates (labeled with character names) that need to be filled with the 12 available cookies. The cookies can be moved onto the plates to help students see the concepts of division and multiplication.
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Cookie Coal Mining Activity Pack
*Science*Math*Reading*With this pack, your students will learn about coal and its significance as a natural resource. Resources include a reading and response activity, interpreting data about US state's coal production, and finally a hands-on mining experience in which students will create a financial plan for their own mining excursion (in a cookie)!Pages Included:-Informational passage: About Coal Mining-Comprehension response: pros and cons; determine the meaning of words-Interpreting data—U
Grades:
2nd - 4th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Profit & Loss Lemonade Stand Roleplay Game (Supply & Demand Lessons too)
Teach Profit & Loss (and Supply & Demand) through a fun game that students will enjoy. Also included in this pack is a fun auction lesson to teach supply & demand. I wanted to teach my students about profit and loss and give them an experience learning how a business works before they created their own. I wanted them to learn:- How to plan/organize what they need to buy- Keep a profit/loss record (doing the math themselves)- About borrowing/repaying loans (with interest that grows ov
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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Dream Home: Utilizing Money, Area, Perimeter, and Conversion
STEM UNIT: Becoming an architect may seem so wonderful, but students may think twice after designing, building, and repairing problems in their new home. This is a unit that allows students to use a combination of math skills and critical thinking to be the architect of their own dream home on a budget. The students will engage in researching architecture of homes and house plans, designing their house plan, purchasing materials and labor, and dealing with problems along the way. The skills used
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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My Budget Project
This is a great end of year math project! You can give students a career with a realistic salary and challenge them to create a monthly budget. Each slide will need to depict a different monthly cost like rent, car payment, etc. This will give the students a good real life look into the cost of living. At the end of the slides, there is an example project for to show students.
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Grades:
8th - 11th
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Personal Financial Literacy TEKS 4.10 and 3.9
Personal Financial Literacy: Personal Financial Literacy- a Year-Round Classroom Management System and PowerPoint including content related to TEKS 4.10 A-E and 3.9 A-F
This resource packet is designed to teach financial literacy concepts throughout the year as a classroom management system. Students earn income and pay expenses based on achievement of their educational goals and fines given for minor behavior offenses.
Students explore the connection between hard work, education, and ca
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Earth Day Festival Project Based Learning
Engage your students in this fun and relevant project where students plan an Earth Day Festival. The project begins with a mini Web Quest designed to give student some background on Earth Day. After that, students work to determine a budget for the different activities at the festival and then present their plan and budget to the "city council". ( A grading rubric is included for the presentation.) Some Earth Day activities are already proposed, while other activities can be developed by the
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle
Checking Account Simulation
Do you need a lesson to teach students how to balance a checkbook? A PowerPoint presentation is included instructs students on how to balance their own checkbook and then gives them some "real world" practice. The PowerPoint includes writing a check, using a debit card, and making deposits. Also included is the handouts that you will give students in order for them to participate in the simulation. One handout is a checkbook register and the other handout has blank checks that students will writ
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Life Size Number Line to 20 - number line students can act out story problems
Perfect for teaching number line awareness. Students will
put the numbers in order and it becomes a number line. They can act out story problems.
I put containers on each number with counters in each
container to reflect the corresponding number. I will give
a student a bag with the first number in it. If they are
adding, the they collect one from each container until
they stop. If they are subtracting, they take one from
their bag and put it in the container.
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Grades:
PreK - 4th
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Washington, D.C. Trip Planning Budget Project
I use this project as part of the addition and subtraction unit in my 3rd grade classroom. It gives students a real world scenario in which they would use their knowledge of addition and subtraction to manage money. The kids love it because it offers a lot of choice and is very fun! It could also be used for advanced 2nd graders or as a review at the beginning of the year for 4th graders.
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
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CCSS:
Scholarship Project Based Learning - Adding & Subtracting Decimals
Congratulations! Your students are awarded a set amount of money to spend to decorate their college dorm room. The activity includes:
* Step by Step Instructions
* Balance Sheet
* Sample Checks
* Additional Earning Opportunities
* Differentiation Suggestions
* Teacher Tips
* Rubric
With this problem based learning activity, your students will have practice adding and subtracting decimals, balancing a check registry, writing checks, planning a budget, shopping for the best deal, and man
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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Cupcake War Math Practice Simulation!
A simulated Cupcake War (like the TV series) to get your students doing math!
Students are given a budget and are tasked with making enough cupcakes for all the classes in their grade for the cupcake contest! The pdf guide helps to walk students through the process of calculating how many cupcakes they need, how much of each ingredient they need, how much the project will cost, how much time they will need to prepare, and of course designing the decorations on the top!
This is a great exercis
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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3rd Grade Math Thanksgiving Escape Room
Looking for something a little challenging, incredibly engaging, and slightly different from an ordinary day? Escape room challenges have all of that and more.In this escape room challenge, the students must escape from being stuck in pilgrim times after being transported back in a time machine. They can only get out if they can successfully navigate their way through 5 math challenges.This challenge has students apply skills in place value, order of operations, multi-digit addition/subtraction
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
Types:
Also included in: 3rd Grade Math Holiday Escape Room Bundle
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