Real-World Experience is the Essence of Project-Based Learning

Kids have big dreams! Some kids love being outside in nature. Will they be future park rangers of a national park? What teacher doesn't want an engaging set of math activities? Let's combine both of these for the kids! Experience is the BEST teacher!

This PBL focuses on being a park ranger! This set of 70+ pages with minimal prep reviews 9+ different mathematical concepts for elementary-level children. The FULL answer key makes grading a breeze.

***While these activities are based around end of 2nd-3rd grade math skills, it can be used with students of any age who need more support in the concepts.

CONCEPTS:

• Adding & subtracting within $10,000
• Measuring height/length to the quarter inch
• Area and Perimeter
• Adding & subtracting with multiple steps
• Coordinates
• Identifying/creating fractions from a set
• Reading/Writing time on digital/analogue clocks
• Elapsed time
• AM & PM
• Arrays (3 variations) - repeated addition, multiplication fact, and word problems
• Organizing data
• Graphing data
• Using data to answer questions
• Using a calendar

ACTIVITIES:

• Ranger Equipment: In this activity, students will practice their addition/subtraction skills with a budget of $700. The goal is to buy everything that's needed/wanted to be a park ranger. Students will look at the various options and prices. The students get to truly decide what they think they will need. They then add together the prices of the items until they reach their budget limit.
• Measurement: Students use the given 6" ruler to measure height/length of each creature they may see as a ranger. Then they record it onto their sheet.
• Place the Creatures: Here students find the area and perimeter of the given creature populations. They will then (on graph paper) draw the populations into their park.
• Ranging the Park: Students will cut out the various creature coordinate cards. Identify and glue their coordinate location on the map. On the recording sheet, students will answer the questions.
• Animal Sightings: Students will look at each card of police gear and identify how many of each are in it. They will then write the fractions for each type of gear onto the recording sheet.
• Hike and Help 1: This multi-part activity reviews reading analogue clocks and writing the digital form with AM & PM.
• Hike and Help 2: After writing the digital time, students read the given elapsed times and write the new digital time with AM & PM. Following this, they write the time onto analogue clocks.
• Park Arrays: This activity shows arrays of various creatures and park activities. Students are to write the repeated addition, multiplication facts, answer the expressions, and answer the deeper word problems (aiming towards division). *There are 3 levels:

1. Low - Only write the repeated addition for each array.

2. Mid - Write repeated addition and multiplication fact.

3. High - Write repeated addition, multiplication fact, and answer word
problems.

• Hike Experiences 1: This is a multi-part activity that allows students to look at data on the cards with various hikes. Students will tally the information onto their recording sheet and write their results with digits into the table.
• Hike Experiences 2: Using the data from the table, students create a bar graph about the hikes that were completed.
• Hike Experiences 3: The final piece is to answer questions about the hikes based on the tally/marks and bar graph.
• Ranger Requirements: This activity allows students to report the various happening during the month by marking their calendars according to each event card they read.

This set is jam-packed with math review that is perfect for a themed unit, end-of-year, early-finishers, or those pesky sick-days when you need a sub