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Middle school basic operations simulations for Gifted and Talented $5-10
Gifted and Talented - Living on Your Own: Lessons in Financial Responsibility
Challenge your gifted and talented to play the “game of life” and survive financially during their first year in college. This concept-based unit allows students to “earn” an inheritance from a distant relative by repurposing items from a barn. With this “money,” students find affordable housing, transportation, furnishings, and other essentials. Then the “game of life begins with monthly reoccurring expenses, opportunities to buy additional necessities and/or wants, as well as challenges or o
Grades:
5th - 8th
Dog Sled Race Project Based Learning
This engaging project allows students to use a variety of math and language skills in a relevant simulation. They will plan, prepare, and race in a Dog Sled Race. Here's a list of the different activities included in this project:Activity 1: Your Team: Students create their dog team. They draw pictures of each of their 6 dogs and name them. They also develop a team logo.Activity 2: Sled Dog Care: Students read a passage describing the needs of their sled dogs. They follow up by answering
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle
Stock Market Crash Simulation Activity│1929 │Great Depression │PowerPoint Game
This interactive PowerPoint activity will review the climate of the 1920's and introduce the basic of trading on the stock market to your 5th graders.Students will work together in "investment teams" and trade on the stock market with their starting $1,000. The game winds its way through the 1920s, eventually crashing on Black Tuesday. I highly recommend using this as an activity to introduce the stock market crash. The first time I tried this activity, I had already taught about Black Tuesda
Grades:
5th - 8th
Going to the Championship Football Game Project Based Learning
Engage your students in a relevant project with this Championship Game Project. (Please note, Super Bowl is trademarked and not authorized for use in commercial products therefore I am using the words Championship Game instead.) ****Now updated for the 2024 Championship Game in Las Vegas****Students will spend several days going through the planning of a trip to this year's championship game in Las Vegas, Nevada. Students will use a variety of math skills for budgeting and problem solving, as
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle
Choose Your Adventure: Dystopia
Immerse your students in the world of Dystopian literature with this "Choose Your Adventure" activity! Students are inserted into the story as the protagonist and are given a series of choices that will determine their fate. There are 74 choices and 28 possible endings! They must navigate through social classes, a rebellion, totalitarian rule, and a dubious government. Use as a hook activity for a novel, a genre study, or to accompany another dystopian text!
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Math Munchies Cafe: Tips, Discounts, Tax, Percents
This real life application will help your students practice finding prices after taxes, tips, and discounts. Transform your classroom into a restaurant with these easy to follow guidelines, menu, and student worksheets. Invite younger students to visit and be your customers (they will have the opportunity to practice adding decimals and making change). My students LOVE becoming waiters/waitresses in the "Math Muchies Cafe" and will have a better understanding of the never ending question of:
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3rd - 8th
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Gifted Education Unit- Design Your Own App
As of 2017, 77% of Americans own a smartphone or tablet. It is estimated that in 2020, people will spend $189 billion on apps. Design Your Own App is an excellent extension for students to use critical thinking and problem solving skills to develop a new innovative app. Their new app can be used to entertain, connect people, educate, or make everyday living easier. Students will create a thorough description of how to app works and a visual design of the app. Finally, students will have the opp
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6th - 12th
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Gifted Education Unit- Medical Interns
Medical Interns is an excellent student extension for students who are learning about human body systems.Working as an intern students will diagnose patients with varied medical conditions. Armed with prescription cards in their white lab coats, they will determine staff members ailments. If faced with an unknown disease, students will research plausible possibilities, return to the patient with a prescription and present various treatment options.
This is a great unit for gifted education cla
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Mars Mission Chaos Breakout
Product Description
Your students will have 45 minutes to escape your room in this immersive learning escape game about Mars. You are the commander and as you read the scenario, build up the suspense for your students to crack the codes for 6 locks and several challenging clues! They will learn facts about Mars and complete a math problem to breakout of this chaos! This Breakout does use real locks and boxes to add to the real feel of escaping!
Goals of a Breakout Room:
• Teamwork and collabo
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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REAL WORLD LIFE SKILLS PERSONAL FINANCE MINI UNIT
· This Personal Finance mini unit is often described as having the biggest impact on students’ real-world understanding. · Often, these lessons are the first-time students have been asked to consider their relationship with money, their knowledge of how much goods and services cost, and their own values.· Students will examine income, expenses, and household budget in order to understand how their career salaries will be put to use in the real world. Knowing the different salary withholdings and
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: REAL WORLD LIFE SKILLS Personal Finance and Understand Income DIGITAL
INVESTING IN THE STOCK MARKET : an in-class simulation guide
This is a 29 page package to support teachers in running a 24 day stock market simulation in their grade 5-10 classroom. I have used a version of this in my class for several years now and the kids LOVE it! I have adjusted it and perfected it to include a 24 page student booklet, an evaluation sheet, and a three page SPECIFIC teacher instruction manual.
I offer this exact resource IN FRENCH. Check out La classe de Mme Geneviève for other Math Resources and French Immersion Resources.
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5th - 10th
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Florida Science Unit Projects - Earth & Space Science Bundle
These engaging unit projects hit your 5th grade Florida science standards NGSSS for earth and space science. These science projects can be used as independent work for your advanced students or for all students at the end of your unit. Written by a Florida teacher to meet Florida state academic standards for science. No fluff!Included Projects:Students work for NASA in this fun science activity where they discover a new solar system.Students work as real estate agents in this fun science activit
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Concession Stand - A Full Unit Business Simulation
Concession Stand is a business simulation for grades 8 - 12. Students will open a business and use their math skills to complete order forms, update inventory, pay bills, keep a ledger, and open for days of sale. This project works with higher level Blooms Taxonomy and allows students to work together in groups.
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8th - 12th
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Stock Market Challenge Complete Unit - Google Drive & Classroom Links!
For this stock market unit, you'll receive everything in easy to use PDF format for any or all parts you want to teach hands-on, or have students work on paper. As a bonus,within in the PDF document, there are embedded Google doc links! The links prompt you to make a copy of the document for easy download to use with Drive or Google Classroom. These Google documents may be used in place of any paper-version of the activity. This PDF guide with activities can be implemented hands-on with PDF form
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5th - 8th
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LA BOURSE : UNE SIMULATION EN CLASSE (Stock Market simulation kit)
This is a 28 page package to support teachers in running a 24 day stock market simulation in their grade 5-10 classroom. I have used a version of this in my class for several years now and the kids LOVE it! I have adjusted it and perfected it to include a 24 page student booklet, an evaluation sheet, and a three page SPECIFIC teacher instruction manual.The entire content is IN FRENCH for the French Immersion--or francophone--classroom. I also offer this exact product IN ENGLISH, if you are int
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5th - 10th
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2 WEEK CLASSROOM STOCK MARKET - Financial Literacy for most Grade levels!
A two week (with room for adding or taking away) activity simulating the stock market in your classroom! Students will interact with 8 different age-appropriate 'stocks':- Gold, Shell gas, McDonald's, Banana, Air Canada, Cineplex, Nike, GoogleStart each day with an exciting, hands-on, and real-world skills based 15-20 mins of students buying, selling, and trading in the classroom stock market. Students will be able to practice mental math of all basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplic
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Farming Simulation Math Project
I created this project to used with my 4th grade highly-gifted class. It incorporates multiplication, division, decimals, money management, and area into a complex and engaging simulation project. Students work with a group to purchase fields and seeds to plant each "year". They then roll the dice to determine what the weather will be like that year and how it will affect their crop growth. Then, they calculate their profit by "selling" the crops that made it through the year. They purchase
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4th - 7th
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City Block Math Project
This project was originally created to be used with highly gifted students in a fourth grade classroom, but can most definitely be adapted for other ages and abilities as well. Some skills that it focuses on: multiplication, division, perimeter, area, money, and drawing to scale.
For this project, I create groups of students who together design a city block based on requirements that I have given them. They must find the area of each building and will later use these areas to determine costs
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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Economics {Bundle} Profits & Losses; Property Rights; Entrepreneurship
Gifted Education Economics Bundle 3 Lessons: Profits & Losses; Property Rights, and Entrepreneurship Famous Entrepreneurs are Bundled Together
These lessons include a simulation, webquest, and rubric to guide a research paper.
*Economics Profits and Losses Manage a Musical Production
This unit takes approximately 4 class periods to complete. Students create flyers, tickets, and manage marketing for a mock theater production. Students work in cooperative learning groups, or it can be adap
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3rd - 6th
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Road Trip
A unit to get your students ready for summer vacation! Students will plan a week long vacation with a $500.00 budget. Students use the internet to find locations, map route, find hotels and attractions. Students learn how to calculate mileage, map their trip, figure taxes and tips and budget money. Students complete mini reports on locations visiting as well as attractions. I use the lesson with gifted 4th grade students but it could easily be used for grades as high as 8th grade. My student
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5th - 8th
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Gifted Education Unit- Sunrise Vacation Agency
Sunrise Vacation Agency is an excellent extension for students who want to learn more about the world and practice research and communication skills. Working as a travel agent students will identify the perfect vacation destination for their client and create a dream vacation package to meet their client’s needs. Students will use travel magazines, online websites and personal interviews to research various cities and attractions throughout the world. With a set budget, students will create the
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5th - 9th
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What's Next? Planning For Your Future--A Problem Solving and Using Decimals
In this math problem-solving activity, students have graduated from high school and are ready to take on the world. They will need to find a job, a place to live, fill out a job application, plan menus, and stay on a budget. This activity is always a huge eye-opener for my fifth graders. It gets them thinking about the future and how much it really costs to live out there in the big old world. I have included some extensions at the end. One of my favorites is the job interview. One year, b
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5th - 6th
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MATH SIMULATION Worksheet Packet! Run an Arcade Mixed Math
This simulation can be used within several grades, depending on the level of your students. I recommend this for advanced 3rd grade, 4th grade and beginning of the year 5th grade.
There are 14 pages of simulating opening and operating a skating rink! (also INCLUDES 14 page ANSWER KEY)
Students are asked to add, subtract, multiply and divide their way through this packet as they determine start up and operating costs for their skating rink!
Numbers go up into seven digits.
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Simulation Station-Hurricane Relief Budgeting Activity
This hurricane relief simulation is designed to challenge students to think outside the box to help others in a time of need. It provides real-world problems that students will be able to connect with on many levels. It consists of a total of 4 tasks that uniquely address issues that arise in a time of disaster. This product may be presented as a center/station. It is ready to print and go. The simulation design allows teachers to be flexible while meeting the needs of the students.
Grades:
4th - 7th
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