Build a Zoo Project Based Learning 3rd Grade Math PBL Area Model Multiplication

⭐ 3rd Grade Build a Zoo PBL is the perfect activity to practice area model multiplication. This unit is an engaging activity where third grade students use their math skills to create and maintain a zoo, all while having some ferociously fun learning experiences.

With a printable PDF and Google Slides format, this resource is entirely tailored to the needs of any learning environment. Students practice key math standards while enjoying every minute of it.

This Build a Zoo Project Based Learning activity will capture and stimulate your students' imagination. Applying their math skills to real-life challenges, students will choose which animals to add to their zoo, build exhibits, design animal habitats, organize feeding times, and monitor zoo attendance and finances. With three additional challenge activities, students can learn even more about concepts like area, perimeter, time management, and money word problems.

The zoo management activities are made with practical and engaging features that integrate practicing a wide range of 3rd grade math standards. Students will multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10, tell and write time to the nearest minute, draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph, recognize area as an attribute of plane figures, and use multiplication and addition to relate area. Students will also measure area by counting square units, solve real-world problems involving perimeters of polygons, and complete budget-related money word problems.

With this Build a Zoo Math PBL, you can ensure your students are not just practicing math, but are engaged and focused because they are practicing it in the most exciting way possible. With included teaching strategies to make it easy on you, this resource will keep them engaged right until the end. Let's get wild with Build a Zoo!

⭐ This 3rd grade math PBL integrates the following CCSS math standards to solve problems related to building a zoo:

• 3.NBT.A.3 Multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10

• 3.MD.A.1 Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes

• 3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories

• 3.MD.C.5 Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement

• 3.MD.C.6 Measure area by counting square units

• 3.MD.C.7 Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition

• 3.MD.D.8 Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons

Key Features:

✏️ Printable & Digital Format - Printable PDF & Google Slides formats make this 3rd grade Build a Zoo resource perfect for any classroom setup. Digital and printable versions are consistent, so they can be used for a seamless transition between print and digital.

✏️ Educational & Engaging - This resource will capture the imagination of your students while they practice key math skills. Students are required to build and maintain a zoo under various constraints while practicing key numbers and operations in base ten and measurement and data skills.

✏️ Differentiation - Three challenge activities mean that you can challenge your high-performing students while making the resource accessible to your on-level and below-level students.

What's Included?

1. Teacher and Student Directions
2. Choose Your Animals
3. Build the Exhibits (area and perimeter)
4. Animal Habitats (research, science, money)
5. Feeding Time (research, science, multiplication, repeated addition, and subtraction)
6. Zoo Brochure (writing)
7. Zoo Attendance (money word problems)
8. Challenge #1 Reptile House (area and perimeter)
9. Challenge #2 Snack Stand (money word problems)
10. Challenge #3 Primate Classes (Schedule and Time)
11. Self Reflection and Rubric

Please Note: This escape room is similar to the 4th grade version, but with passages and questions on a 3rd grade level.

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