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8th grade applied math simulations
Electoral College Activity - PPT/Notes/Super Fun Competition! - Paper & Digital
Looking for a great bell ringer activity to start class each day?Full Year of Writing/Discussion Prompts - 180 Bell RingersGet ready for the 2024 election with your students!! Used in over 2,500 classrooms, this is the most fun your students will have learning about the Electoral College! I have used this Electoral College activity over and over throughout my two decades in the classroom, and it has always been a hit; especially on an election year! [For the Google Drive version click here].
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Bundle: What is the Electoral College? Voting with Mystery Candidates
Project Based Learning: Volume and Area of Prisms and Cylinders
This cooperative project involves applying many math and language skills to a real life situation. Teams are tasked with planning an aquatic center. Specifications include rectangular and circular pools which allow students to practice older skills such as perimeter, area, and volume of rectangles and prisms, as well as newer skills such as circumference, area, and volume of circles and cylinders. Measurement conversions are integrated, as well as writing and presentation skills. A final po
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6th - 8th
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Book About Hands-On Financial Literacy Simulations for Teens & Young Adults
These simulations come from Nick's book, "You're Gonna Need a Bigger Wallet." The book is available on Amazon for $24, or on TPT for $21 in .pdf format. The .pdf format is more ideal for teachers than the printed copies of the book because it allows for easier access to print the activities and handouts.
"You're Gonna Need a Bigger Wallet" is geared towards teachers and organizations who desire to teach personal finance skills in engaging and practical ways. Several industry experts contribute
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Hands On LCM GCF Build It! Least Common Multiple, Greatest Common Factor
Kids will master the concepts of least common multiple and greatest common factor by actually manipulating items into groups. With this fun, hands-on activity, the problems are already created for you!
An answer key is provided. All you need is to print the worksheet and distribute base-ten blocks, Cuisenaire rods, strips of paper, or anything you have handy.
Your students can work in pairs to model the situation and perform the correct operation to perform a hands-on GCF and a hands-on LC
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4th - 8th
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Project Based Learning | Football Math and Reading - FUN for Super Bowl 2024
Get your students excited about the upcoming Super Bowl with this fun and engaging football-themed project! In this activity, students will imagine being a FOOTBALL MANAGER and will use close reading skills and creative thinking to design their own DREAM TEAM and practice real-world math skills. Go to new depths of learning with this Project-Based Learning activity. This differentiated resource uses elements of the Design Process as well as Depth and Complexity, so that students can further enha
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5th - 8th
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BASKETBALL Math & Reading BUNDLE | Escape Room | March Madness Activities
Get your students excited about reading and Madness in MARCH with this differentiated basketball-themed project bundle!Includes project-based learning, close reading, escape room, CSI activities, and more. Perfect for engaging students in math, science, and informational text practice.Please click on the PREVIEW above to view everything that is included!By purchasing this bundle, you are saving 20% off the price of the individual units.Go to new depths of learning with the Project-Based Learning
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5th - 8th
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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"The Great Food Truck Project" - Rate, Proportions, and Percents Unit Assessment
A rates and proportions unit project, centering around the real-world use of percentages and rates. Students work with a small group to create their own concept for a food truck, including what food and drink options they would sell. Using inspiration for "The Great Food Truck Race" and "Sharktank" TV shows, students work to create a best-selling idea, that also showcases their own values as a "company".I hope to share more information and examples of how I use this project with my upcoming ye
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6th - 8th
Football Math Reading and Science BUNDLE | Escape Room | PBL | Super Bowl
Get your students excited about reading and the upcoming Super Bowl with this differentiated football-themed project bundle! Includes project-based learning, close reading, escape room, CSI activities, and more. Perfect for engaging students in math, science, and informational text practice.Please click on the PREVIEW above to view everything that is included!By purchasing this bundle, you are saving 20% off the price of the individual units.Close Reading CHALLENGES include:Informational Text- “
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5th - 8th
Carnival Probability Project
A project that feels like a game!
Students must create their own game, using probability to ensure THEY are favored to win....much like the house in a casino. Students can make games involving dice, spinners, cards, "fishing" ducks out of a pond, etc.
Assessed skills include: fundamental counting principal, theoretical probability, experimental probability, independent events, dependent events, creativity, writing, presentation. *Students must already know basic probability to complete this
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8th - 12th
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Finding Simple & Compound Interest - Car Activity
This is a quick, one page activity involving simple and compound interest. It presents a car and its price and offers four financing options. Students calculate the total to be repaid for each option. Great for comparing compound and simple interest or showing how length of a loan affects credit!Key is included. Discussion question page coming soon!TEKS: 8.12A, 8.12B, 8.12D, and 8.12E
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7th - 10th
StockUp - A Stock Market project for the Maths classroom
StockUp - A Stock Market project for the Maths classroomIn this challenge students are given $1000 to invest in the stock exchange. They combine with other students to create an investment group. Individually and as a group they will then track this investment over the term or year.I do this every year with my Math class and it is often a highlight of the year for students. They learn lots about investments and money markets along the way.Great for understanding decimal numbers and percentages a
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4th - 8th
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March Madness Activities | Project Based Learning | BASKETBALL Math and Reading
Get your students excited about the upcoming MARCH MADNESS BASKETBALL SEASON with this fun and engaging basketball-themed project!In this activity, students will imagine being a BASKETBALL COACH and will use close reading skills and creative thinking to design their own DREAM TEAM and practice real-world math skills.Go to new depths of learning with this Project-Based Learning activity. This differentiated resource uses elements of the Design Process as well as Depth and Complexity so that stude
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5th - 8th
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8th Grade Map Out A Town Writing Linear Equations Project (End of Year Activity)
Writing Linear Equations Project8th Grade Math - Map Out A TownMy collection of Add-Ons include activities to enhance your classroom. They are the perfect way to both enrich and remediate the math concepts taught while also incorporating collaboration. This project is absolutely perfect for the end of the year. It is engaging and let's each student explore the career of Urban Planning. Check out my entire shop to make your life easier! We all know that teachers work way too hard, so treat yourse
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7th - 9th
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Classroom City All - Inclusive Economics Unit
Classroom City Economics Unit:Teach your students about business, finance and economics with this extensive hands-on, real-life business development and management unit that culminates with the opening of their student-ran Classroom City !Unit includes: Classroom City introduction newspaper, economics rules, printable checks and registry, credit-debit log sheet, business ideas, economics lessons unit beginning at “want vs needs” and covering topics through to “stock market”, how to write a chec
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4th - 8th
Middle School Entrepreneurship: Interactive Team-Based Business Simulation Game
Introduce Students to Business Creation & Entrepreneurship in the Startup Game Simulation. In The Startup Academy Game, students are exposed to some of the decisions that they will have to make as a business owner. They will be simulating the first 12 weeks of a business startup that is selling cupcakes. The goal of the game is to be the team that builds the business with the greatest worth by the end of the 12 weeks. Students will make decisions each turn that will determine how much money
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6th - 10th
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Using Probability to Teach Social Justice
This is an exploratory experiment/activity about basic probability. Students discover the differences between theoretical probability, experimental probability, and reality by taking a hard look at Stop and Frisk in urban areas. Students also deal with independent and dependent events.
By the end of the project, students will be able to:
Articulate the differences between theoretical and experimental probability through prediction and experimentation.
Articulate the differences between indep
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8th - 12th
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Life Skills at it Best!
Life Skills at its Best!
Comprehensive Activities to promote good citizenship, school spirit, responsibility, self-esteem, decision making, balancing a budget, appropriate socialization & punctuality. This plan is developed to be used at the end of the week on a weekly basis through out the school year.
These activities were made for you to expand and use at your students ability level. Worksheets have been included for low functioning as well as higher functioning students. These activiti
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K - 12th
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Scaled Drawing Project with Checklist and Rubric
This project is a fun and engaging way for your students to develop critical thinking and math skills!Boosts Creativity: Students design something that interests them, encouraging imagination and creative problem-solving.Real-World Math: Applying ratios and proportions to create a scale drawing brings math concepts to life!Collaboration (Optional): Students can work in pairs to design and draw, promoting teamwork and communication.Differentiation Friendly: The project can be adapted to diff
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5th - 9th
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Household Budgeting Game
This is a financial literacy resources that students play either on their own or in groups. In the game, they must meet all their basic needs including housing, food, transportation and the ever-important cellphone. The Google Sheet simulator tracks their monthly spending and tracks their short-term happiness based on the lifestyle choices they make in their budgeting. It also has students track their savings which is a great followup to the compound interest activity also available in my store.
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7th - 9th
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Classroom Credit Card Application
Students may apply for credit in my classroom. Students first complete this credit card application. Answers to questions listed on the credit card application should be answered honestly by the student. I determine a student’s approval based on savings vs. spending habits and the amount of cash currently in the student’s wallet. If students have over $10, are employed for the week, and circle “homeowner” then they are approved for credit. If denied, students can always reapply at a later date.
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2nd - 8th
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Teach Students to Make a Survey & Presentation with Google Forms & Slides
Show your students how to create a poll/survey using Google forms. This easy-to-follow slides presentation shows students how to make and customize a survey, make a QR code with a direct link to the survey, and use the results to make a presentation for the class using graphs from their data.
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5th - 12th
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WebQuest: Comparing Integers on a Number Line with PhET Interactive Simulation
In this WebQuest and Interactive Simulation, students will delve into the world of integers, which are whole numbers that can be positive, negative, or zero. Students will use the PhET simulation "Number Line: Integers" to visualize and manipulate integers on a number line, helping you understand their properties and relationships. Students will interact with the simulation as they are guided through the WebQuest.Link to be used:https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/number-line-integers/latest/num
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6th - 9th
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WebQuest: Graphing Slope-Intercept with PhET Simulation
In this webquest, students will explore the concept of graphing linear equations in slope-intercept form, \( y = mx + b \), where \( m \) represents the slope and \( b \) represents the y-intercept. Students will use the PhET simulation "Graphing Slope-Intercept" to investigate how changes in slope and y-intercept affect the graph of a line. Students will be engaged in 5 different tasks. An answer key is provided.The simulation link:https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/graphing-slope-intercept/la
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6th - 10th
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