Transform your math block with this 3rd Grade Project Based Learning (PBL) Bundle! These three real-world activities help students apply essential 3rd grade standards through engaging projects. Each unit comes in printable PDF + Google Slides, perfect for classroom or homeschool.

Included Projects

🦁 Build a Zoo – Students design a zoo while practicing:

• Area, perimeter, and measurement skills
  
• Multiplication, repeated addition, and subtraction
  
• Money word problems & data collection
  
• Organizing schedules and real-world applications
  

🧁 Cupcakes Galore – Students run a cupcake business while applying:

• Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and fractions
  
• Equivalent fractions & number line models
  

Place value and operations with whole numbers

• Time and measurement word problems
  

🧵 Measure Twice, Cut Once (Quilt Project) – Students create quilt designs while using:

• Measuring, drawing lines, and ordering fractions
  
• Addition, subtraction, and fraction equivalence
  
• Area, perimeter, and geometry concepts
  
• Graphs, line plots, and data analysis
  

Key Features

• ✏️ Printable + Digital → PDF & Google Slides included
  
• 🌍 Real-World Math Practice → Makes abstract skills meaningful
  
• 🎯 Standards-Aligned → Covers 3rd grade OA, NBT, NF, MD, and Geometry
  
• 🧩 Differentiation Built-In → Challenge activities for all learner
• ✏️ Low-Prep & No-Prep Design - Print-and-go format makes it easy to execute and very little prep work required.
• 🏠 Homeschool & Classroom Friendly - Students can work collaboratively or independently on these math project based learning activities at their pace.

👉 With this bundle, your students will use math to solve creative, real-world scenarios they’ll never forget!

Virtually Zero Prep: Our print-and-go & Google Slides bundle is perfect for busy teachers who want to incorporate engaging, hands-on learning into their math curriculum. These PBLs are designed to be easy to implement while still challenging students to think critically and apply their math skills in a fun and exciting way. So you get the full impact of project-based learning without all the effort that usually comes with such comprehensive activities. Plus, you can break them up into sections and complete them over several days or weeks - so there easy to fit into nearly any schedule.

Dg Deeper

🦁 Build a Zoo is a project based learning unit based around building and maintaining a zoo. This resource contains a standards-based unit in both printable PDF and Google Slides versions. Students follow instructions to choose animals, build exhibits (area & perimeter), design animal habitats (research, science, money), organize feeding times (research, science, multiplication, repeated addition and subtraction), develop a zoo brochure (writing), and monitor zoo attendance (money word problems). Additional "challenge activities" engage students and develop further understanding of the concepts and skills.

• Standards Addressed
  • CCSS.3.MD.A.1
  • CCSS.3.MD.B.3
  • CCSS.3.MD.C.5
  • CCSS.3.MD.C.6
  • CCSS.3.MD.C.7
  • CCSS.3.MD.D.8
  • CCSS.3.NBT.A.3

🧁 Cupcake's Galore is a project based learning unit based all around preparing cupcakes for a bake sale to raise money for new playground equipment. This resource contains a standards-based unit in both printable PDF and Google Slides versions. Students follow instructions to plan and bake various cupcake recipes using the ingredients they have. Additional "challenge activities" engage students and develop further understanding of the following fractions, addition, subtraction, and multiplication following these standards:

• Standards Addressed:
  • 3.OA.A.3
  • 3.OA.D.8
  • 3.NBT.A.2
  • 3.NBT.A.3
  • 3.NF.A.1
  • 3.NF.A.2
  • 3.NF.A.3
  • 3.MD.A.1
  • 3.MD.A.2

🧵 Measure Twice, Cut Once is a project based learning unit that involves using Measurement and Geometry to solve problems related to quilt making. Students follow instructions on quilt making while measuring lengths, reading clues, counting and drawing lines, ordering fractions, and more. Additional "challenge activities" engage students and develop further understanding of the concepts and skills.

• Standards Addressed:
  • 3.OA.D.8
  • 3.NBT.A.2
  • 3.NF.A.2
  • 3.NF.A.3
  • 3.MD.B.3
  • 3.MD.B.4
  • 3.MD.C.5
  • 3.MD.C.6
  • 3MD.C.7
  • 3.MD.D.8
  • 3.G.A.1
  • 3.G.A.2

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