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Day 1 of a week-long unit pairing a 'Self-Employed Framer' real-world siding/measurement problem with Native American (Ottawa/Chippewa) building history, inductive multiplication fact fluency, and writing.
A project-based learning packet in which students design and run a pretend bakery business, covering creative design, basic business/logistics, and math (pricing, receipts).
This Geometry Project: Transformation Design resource will be fun to do with students as they perform several transformations, create their own designs, and describe their process clearly in words. Students will: - Create a design using translations, rotations, and reflections - Demonstrate their knowledge of translations, rotations,…
Give students a park-design problem with a perimeter of fifty-six units and a choice of internal layout. They divide the space among six uses, calculate area-based costs and add fencing before finding the total project cost. A pool-depth requirement adds volume work, while comparing finished plans can reveal how equal perimeters produce different areas and budgets.
This Financial Literacy: Vacation Math Project will get students excited about using math skills in everyday life to plan something fun: a vacation! It's a great math project to use before summer vacation or anytime you want to incorporate financial literacy into your curriculum! They will plan a personal vacation including a flight, hotel, some kind of…
Here’s an engaging, summer-themed, real-world math budget project for your middle grades students (in grades 5-8). The math project incorporates useful personal finance and financial literacy skills along with realistic budgeting. Each student in your class is going to plan their purchases for a summer camping trip with friends! How to Use: You will…
Here is a ready-to-print middle school math research project about famous mathematicians for your students in 5th through 8th grade. Each student will pick a famous mathematician, complete research about their life and mathematical discoveries, and create an organized project with paragraphs & visuals to share their learning. How to…
Real-world financial literacy/consumer math project in which students research and plan a hypothetical wedding budget.
Here’s a realistic and engaging way to teach upper elementary pupils in grades 3-6 about budgeting while introducing some basic financial literacy too! How to Use: 1) Each student will be assigned a monthly budget (from $1,700 all the way to $5,000). 2) They select one of three options (low, medium, pricey) for each spending category: housing, eating,…
Guide students through a real-world multi-step math project applying arithmetic, geometry, spatial reasoning, and budgeting skills by planning and pricing a bedroom renovation.
A 7-step personal research project guiding students to choose a real-world topic, form a math question about it, learn/practice needed skills, research, calculate an answer, and present their findings.
An open-ended, differentiable poster project where each student represents an assigned percent value in multiple equivalent mathematical forms.
A teacher-facing activity guide for organizing small-group student-led review presentations on a chosen subject (math, science, or social studies) for the last week of school.
Engaging and Educational! Take students on an exciting Summer Road Trip adventure while strengthening essential real-world math skills. This project-based learning activity encourages students to plan a trip, calculate distances and travel times, create budgets, analyze expenses, and make thoughtful financial decisions using practical…
Apply linear-equation and budgeting math skills to an end-of-year 'staycation' planning project.
A cross-curricular mini-unit teaching students about the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, combining reading, math/graphing, social studies, research, and presentation skills.
Have students act as a contractor providing a cost estimate for a full classroom renovation, applying area, perimeter, and cost-calculation skills using real building-supply pricing.
Have student groups apply ratio and fraction concepts by designing catering-menu recipes measured in cups, then analyzing ratios and scaling within and between their recipes.
Craft Stick Dome STEM Challenge for High School Students. My Craft Stick Dome Challenge is an excellent way to get your students' excited for STEM in an engaging hands-on way.
A five-step statistics project has students design their own survey question with six to eight numerical answer choices, then survey at least twenty people and tally the responses. Students convert their collected data into both a dot plot and a histogram, labeling the x- and y-axis and adding a title to each chart. Blank axis templates for both charts are printed directly on the page, with a printed frequency scale from 1 to 11; larger frequencies may need an adapted scale or extra graph paper. A closing reflection section asks students to compare the two chart types and describe what surprised them in their own data, followed by a five-point self-assessment rubric covering four of the project's skills.
A multi-part financial-literacy project teaching students about credit scores and credit reports, combining video-based lessons, worksheets, an adult-interview assignment, and reflection activities.
A guided-inquiry lab in which students design and run an experiment testing how a human-caused factor affects a small ecosystem, then write a formal lab report.
A budgeting/financial-literacy practice activity themed around planning holiday shopping.
An inquiry-based lab experiment ("Eco-bottle Lab") that has students design and run a controlled experiment testing how a human-caused factor (e.g., fertilizer, pesticide, road salt, acid rain, oil) affects a terrestrial/aquatic ecosystem, then write a formal lab report.