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High school math webquests for Microsoft Word
Personal Budget Project
This project allows students to learn what it would be like to live on their own! They will research everything from the salary a certain job makes to the taxes and expenses they will pay in a month. There are five steps that walk the student through figuring out the expenses that are involved in life. They will then record the expense in an excel sheet. At the end they will analyze why it is important to budget.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Nutrition and Daily Food Intake Webquest
This webquest uses Calorie King and other sites to guide students through an analysis of their diet and other common foods. Students are required to answer a series of questions regarding the nutrients in common food. Some minor calculations are required to determine the percentage of fat, protein etc.
Students are then guided through an analysis of their own calorie/kilojoule needs for a day and must then create their own diet that ensures they eat from the five food groups but do not consume
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6th - 11th
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Buying a House Project
This project is perfect for Economics, Personal Finance, Life Skills, and any class that wants to make the classroom practical for their students. This project is great for classes that have access to a computer or tablet. Students will create their own powerpoint or keynote for this project.
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Economics Bundle
Job & Taxes Unit
I use this activity in my Economics classes to show students how much they will pay in taxes in their future jobs. Business, Math and personal finance classes could use this activity in their classes. The lesson is designed to have students choose to possible professions, research the salary of those jobs and determine net pay. Teach students about federal and state income taxes and help students learn about yearly and monthly net and gross pay. Students are shocked to see how much the gover
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7th - 12th
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Vacation Destination City Project
*Updated*
Activities Included:
Trip planning and website research
Trip budgeting
Creating your itinerary
Journal/reflection
2 Extension activities
Trip Presentation with rubric
Car Rental agreement and bonus coupons
I created this project to help keep the students engaged after we completed state testing. We take the test in April and have about 5 weeks of school left when we're done.
This project asks the students to choose a destination city and plan a road trip. They are required to do r
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5th - 12th
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College Board AP Website Scavenger Hunt
This scavenger hunt is designed for Advanced Placement (AP) students of any course. Guided questions enable students to explore their course-specific AP website to gain a familiarity, identify important information, and understand how to access AP/College Board resources throughout the year. The scavenger hunt worksheet goes beyond basic cognitive demands (i.e. identify and write), by embedding some metacognitive questions and tasks.
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9th - 12th
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Credit Card Payoff
This activity incorporates an online credit card and applied math skills. Kids will use math to determine that making the minimum payments on credit cards is a bad idea. The students will also use writing skills to articulate how to appropriately use credit cards.
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9th - 12th
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Mathematician Internet Scavenger Hunt
Includes:Detailed introduction directions (takes about 8 minutes) to get students started on assignmentStudent directions and worksheet to fill in answers on scavenger huntAddress to website to find everything on scavenger huntAnswer key
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5th - 9th
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Chapter 6 Social Security and Medicare
Provide your students with a worksheet/handout that explores social security and medicare through the government websites. Through this exploration students will learn the amounts deducted from their paycheck, qualification requirements, etc.
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11th - 12th
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Also included in: Financial Algebra
CAASPP Desmos Practice Tasks
The CAASPP test that our students take is a computer adaptive test that uses the Desmos Calculator (on problems that allow a calc). If your students do not use Desmos beforehand, they will be at a disadvantage. I put together these tasks to walk students through the various functions Desmos can complete. Students answer some questions & take some Screenshots to show the teacher they can now use Desmos. This activity is designed to be completed on a Chromebook or something similar. It is
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6th - 12th
Age of Exploration: Navigation and Math in Four Minutes Video Worksheet
This video worksheet allows students learn about early navigation and the usefulness of math to guide ships. The video clip is four minutes long, but it is packed full of information that will keep your students engaged.This video worksheet works great as a “Do Now Activity” or as a complement to any lecture or lesson plan on navigation, exploration, and math. The worksheet helps students better understand the importance of math throughout history. The video is great for visual learners and help
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5th - 12th
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Directed Investigation/Assignment - Life's Little Expenses
This task uses Australian websites to guide students through an investigation into their life expenses when they leave home.
Part web-quest, part calculations, students are required to investigate their average income, the tax payable and the net income.
They are then directed to sites to help them determine the cost of a car, the rates of interest if they take a loan for the car, the cost of car expenses such as registration and fuel as well as the cost of rent and utilities.
Finally, studen
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7th - 12th
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Ratio/Scale/Measurement Worksheet
Students are presented with the floorplan for a house. They need to measure the dimension of the rooms and use the websites given to determine the price of floor coverings for several different rooms.
They then need to determine the length and cost of a fence, based on the dimensions of the house.
All websites are given.
All answers can be written on the worksheet.
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6th - 10th
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Taxation Worksheet / Internet Task / Web Quest
Using the Australian Taxation Office's websites and online calculators and information to answer some questions relating to different scenarios of people earning income and their deductions.
Gets students to research different work related expenses, what you can and cannot claim, how to claim vehicle costs etc.
A great, realistic task as these skills are directly transferrable to calculating one's own tax or filling in a tax return.
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7th - 10th
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Analyzing Misleading Graphs
Students are to find a graph online. They are given a url and other resources on how to find it. From there, they are to write a paragraph analyzing the validity of the graph. They are to include the title, resource, what the article is trying to convey, how it is/is not misleading, and at least two suggestions on how to make the graph more clear. Since this is a web-based assignment, it would be perfect for distance learning. Included:Student directions (in word doc so editable for your classro
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7th - 12th
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Tesseract Webquest - Wrinkle in Time
Students learn about tesseracts, volume, and vocabulary terms for 3-D figures. This activity goes with the book A Wrinkle in Time.
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4th - 12th
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Salary, Education, & Living Expenses Webquest (distance learning, math)
How much does your dream lifestyle really cost? What salary do you need to support this lifestyle? What careers offer that salary? What education do you need? What expenses are associated with being an adult?In this 90 minute webquest, students will be guided through the process of getting real to figure out just how much the lifestyle they envision actually costs. In Section I students find the actual prices of key lifestyle components (housing, transportation, etc.). In Section II students dis
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7th - 10th
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FBI-CIA-CSI Research Packet
My 4th grade son desperately wants to be an agent . . . I think he's an agent of destruction (based on the current state of my living room). In order to give him some guidance, I created this self-directed web-quest packet so I could attend to my district training and he could figure out what his future career will be.It is a two-column format: the left hand column includes kid-friendly web links, all of which have been previewed for appropriate content. The right hand side includes fill-in s
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3rd - 9th
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Systems of Equations Performance Task - Cell Phone Plans
Students select two cell phone plans to compare using the website www.whistelout.com/CellPhones and utilize their knowledge of systems of equations to answer guiding questions. A wonderful way to connect math to the real world.A *PERFECT* option for an assessment that isn't multiple choice! :)
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8th - 12th
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Virtual Road Trip
Great end-of-year research project. Designed for an English III class-but works well for Geography and Applied Math as well as Life Skills and Dollars and Sense. Includes 7 different itineraries, each with its own budget and vehicle. Evaluation Rubric included in the assignment. Student teams complete the requirements and share with the class. Teams can share one computer to complete the assignment as they use critical thinking skills to complete their virtual travels. Students love this a
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7th - 12th
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Compound Interest (Exponential Growth) Project
Students will use compound interest to determine if a college fund that was started for them as a baby will cover all of the expenses once it is time to go to college.
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9th - 12th
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Statistics Webquest / Internet Interactive Activities
This worksheet provides students with a number of websites that feature interactive statistics activities. Students are required to complete activities and answer questions based upon these websites.
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5th - 10th
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PARCC Online tools Scavenger Hunt
This activity guides students through the online PARCC practice tests. The questions are using the 7th Grade ELA and Math units to have students navigate through the online testing platform. The activity focuses on the tools available for students and how to access them.
Grades:
6th - 9th
SAT Prep: Charts, Tables, and Graphs using U.S. Census Data Study
This lesson uses data from the 2010 U.S. Census to allow students to access numbers and data in a social science classroom. The lesson is a 2 day mini-unit centered on working with charts, graphs, and tables (serves extremely well for SAT and ACT prep). This cross-curricular lesson draws meaningful parallels between math and social science, and the necessity of bringing these subjects together. The lesson uses a comparative look at Census data for California and the United States as a whole, but
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9th - 12th
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