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8th grade basic operations research
When I Grow Up: Personal Financial Literacy Project
This product is intended to be a culminating project for your financial literacy unit. The components of this product will walk you and your students through the process of researching careers, creating a monthly budget based off of researched salary, and create a PowerPoint presentation to present this research and budget. I spread this project out over a week, however, I have left everything included in this product editable so that you can adjust this timeline, as well as any other aspect of
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3rd - 8th
Integer Birthday Project
Help your students better understand integers by using their birthday as a guide. Their birth year will be represented by zero while events before their birth are negative values and events after their birth are positive values. Wonderful poster project with a writing piece at the end for students to reflect.
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5th - 8th
Financial Literacy Bundle: Checkbooks, Simple and Compound Interest, and More
This product includes a large variety of financial literacy practice including:Balancing a Checkbook Calculating and Comparing Annual SalariesCalculating Simple InterestCalculating Simple and Complex InterestComparing Simple and Complex InterestCollege Research Project: Saving, Paying for College, and Student LoansFinding the Percent of A NumberIf you like these products, please check out my other bundles:6th Grade Task Card Bundle7th Grade Bundle8th Grade Task Card BundleHoliday Bingo BundleDif
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5th - 9th
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Managing a Household - Renting an Apartment project
For this project the students are required to pretend they are looking for an apartment to rent.
The project is broken up into 3 parts:
During the first part they are required to choose an apartment in the local newspaper or apartment listing book or website. They must than determine how much money they are required to earn at their job so that they can live in this apartment.
During the second part, they are given a specific salary and told they need to find an apartment affordable under th
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5th - 10th
Financial Literacy for Canadian High Schoolers: Suppertime Economics
When I was teaching I always either looked for or created projects that were practically-oriented and that gave my students a 'real-life experience', especially in areas like math. For BC grade 9 math teachers (and others across Canada, too), here it is. The assignment is presented as a plausible 'scenario'. You may have students who are already making meals for their families; this product takes it to the next level, i.e., they're required to create a budget in order to plan meals within a fixe
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8th - 10th
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Out to Eat Decimal Project
This is a simple project, but it adds in real life scenario of what the cost is going out to eat. Students end up shocked at the cost of going out to eat! The students pick out a restaurant of their choice (can download the menu offline), "go out to eat" with three other family members, order, determine cost, sales tax and tip for a total of going out to eat for 4 people. This could be a group project with four students going out to eat and seeing what the cost is for each. Either way, it sh
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5th - 8th
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Practical Math: Buying and Leasing Vehicles
Students use the internet to research the cost of Leasing a Vehicle and compare it to the cost of paying Cash. The activity involves a few simple calculations, and a paragraph where they discuss which option suits them better. Suitable for Math and Business classes. Computer Lab Activity. MS Word Format. Editable.
It is a fun activity that takes one period to complete.
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7th - 12th
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Cost vs. Benefits of a Hybrid Car
I used this to help explain cost vs benefits for the environmental issues portion of 6th grade science. Students will research the cost of a hybrid car and it's gasoline model using the Internet. They will then calculate the cost of gas for each car over a 5 year period of time. The students will then see if the cost of a hybrid car is worth the larger sticker price. This correlates with VA sol 6.9d.
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5th - 8th
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Create a Town Project
Create a Town is great for an end of the unit project, or for an enrichment or extension project for quick finishers. It incorporates Social studies concepts like urban, suburban, rural, map skills, and jobs you may find in a town. It incorporates math skills as students need to calculate total galloons of water for the town, total pounds of food needed, and number of students per classroom in the school. It also incorporates science concepts by including exploration of different types of pow
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3rd - 10th
Design Challenge - Design Your Own Food Truck: Budget
This document has all the steps to research and create a budget for the items necessary for a food truck. The budget is created with Google Sheets. Here is the link to the article mentioned on this checklist. The videos are available at an additional cost.
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Design Challenge - Design Your Own Food Truck
Airport Design - Area & Perimeter - PBL
If you would like to purchase the 100% EDITABLE version of this product, click here! Great for differentiation!Teach your students Area and Perimeter through creating their own Airports!This fantastic no-prep resource guides students through researching and designing their own international airports. Students are guided through the process of researching airport design, configuring the location/size of each structure, determining the area and/or perimeter of each building, and calculating the co
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4th - 9th
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Use Of Manipulatives Persuasive Parent Letter
This is a persuasive letter to parents regarding the beneficial use of manipulatives in the classroom to support students' successful learning, particularly in mathematics. Points are based off of cited research, and content may be applicable to students in all grades. Ultimately, the proposal simply strives to help parents better understand the role such tools play in their students' educational experiences, especially with the newer changes taking place in the discipline's standard curriculum.
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PreK - 12th
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Travel Extravaganza
This 25 page travel project was developed for students to map out dream vacation spots on a budget while utilizing research, math, geography and writing skills.
This product comes with:
-teacher direction page
-student direction page
-black and white cover options
-black and white post card options
-map
-work page
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4th - 12th
Science Journal Topics: Physical Science
Here is a list of science journal topics that can be used in your class. The topics are cross curricular and include subjects such as ELA, social studies, math, physical education, art, and health. These topics were summarized from Louisiana's Harcourt Science textbooks and put together in one document for you to use!
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5th - 8th
TRAVELING ACROSS TEMPERATURES: A CROSS-CURRICULAR ACTIVITY
This is a science activity which covers some meteorology, geography, history, and mathematics. It gives the students a bit of expanded knowledge about places, and temperatures. Students can use electronic resources to complete the assignment. Thanks ever so much for visiting!
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3rd - 9th
Travelogue
Students learn how to plan a trip. It includes a budget, itinerary, to do list, evaluation and map of the route. Rubrics are included. It takes two days on a block schedule. Access to computers is important.
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6th - 12th
Traveling around the Philadelphia Reigon Project
This is a very basic traveling project. The students are required to use a map of Southeastern Pennsylvania and answer questions regarding:
Understanding Scale
Figuring distance using that scale
Finding routes to take places
Percent: I Need To Save $ Because My Parents Don't Trust Me to Make Good Choices
7.RP.3 Use proportional relationships to solve multi-step ratio and percent problems.
According Common Core Standards for the 7th grade math curriculum, students need to be able to understand simple interest, tax, mark-ups, mark-downs, gratuities, commissions, fees, percent increase, percent decrease, and percent error. These skills relate very well and easily to real life scenarios! I like designing projects in which students solve problems they may be faced with in the near future. Having to
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6th - 8th
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State Areas - An Investigation using Large Numbers and Inequalities
Allow students to do some hands-on math learning as they research the area of each state in the United States. Students will work together to determine the areas of the states in New England (or a different region) and then work on their own region of the country. Students are provided practice for comparing state areas to see how it is necessary to understand place values and inequalities.The following websites are useful:State Area MeasurementsState PopulationsUSA Census RegionsAs a class, I
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5th - 8th
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Talk Moves for Parents and Tutors - Teaching at Home Help Tips
Does it sometimes seem like parents or caregivers are doing homework for their kids? This resource can be sent home to help parents support their kids WITHOUT picking up their kid's pencil and doing it for them. Each Talk Move has a description with an example. Enjoy!Want to earn TpT credit?From your My Purchases page, click Provide Feedback. You'll earn credit towards future purchases every time you rate a product! Also, I find it super helpful to see your ratings and read your comments, so tha
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PreK - 8th, Staff
Furnishing an apartment on a budget
This is a project is to have students use a budget to furnish an apartment. I have students cut out sales ads for the products and glue them onto poster board.
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
Basic Math: A 7 Chapter Book
This book is 7 chapters long. In chapter 1, identify sets of numbers, review the basic four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division), examine properties, learn about absolute value, know exponents, know roots, see how factors and multiples are related. In Chapter 2, learn about equations, learn about expressions, learn about evaluation, operate in the right order, find the value of expressions containing exponents, evaluate expressions with parentheses. In Chapter 3, know
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1st - 12th
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Holiday Gift List
This is a packet of four worksheets that ask the student to list items they would like for a Holiday can be used for any holiday. It requires math skills (adding,subtracting,multiplication) This can be used for economics, unique skills for budgeting. It is also good for research skills using a newspaper, or it can be modified for the internet.
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5th - 12th
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Vacation Destination State Research Ppt Example
This is an example of the State Vacation Research Report listed on my page. The student guidelines, notes, and outline can be purchased through my store. This can be used as an example for teacher use.
Grades:
4th - 12th
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