Description
Plan Thanksgiving Dinner with this Math PBL specifically designed for early elementary.
This math project based learning task was specifically designed to be an introduction to PBL tasks perfect for Kindergarten, First Grade and Second Grade.
Give your students real-world application with math by having them plan their own Thanksgiving dinner this year! Work on reviewing and practicing applying addition and subtraction skills as your students complete this Thanksgiving PBL.
Students can choose their main course, side dishes, drinks, dessert, and decor they want to make their Thanksgiving dinner unique while sticking to a $25 dollar budget. Once students complete the task using the brainstorming page and the budget tracker page, expand this assignment by having students create their menu board as well as drawing what their Thanksgiving plate will look like. This would make the perfect bulletin board or hallway display.
What's Included:
- Engaging Class Instructions letter
- Menu items display pages (color)
- Brainstorming sheet
- Budget sheet (2 options)
- My Thanksgiving Plate page (2 options)
- Thanksgiving menu page
- How to Use page
When to Use:
- whole group math activity
- fall/thanksgiving party activity
- small group teacher led assignment
- take home thanksgiving project
Check out these other Thanksgiving activities and resources:
- Gratitude Journal - get students focusing on things they are thankful for around them. Great writing activity for November
- FREE Thankful Turkey Activity - a simple and cute freebie about things students are thankful for
- FREE Thanksgiving Parade Writing - after reading or listening to the book "Balloons Over Broadway" have students complete this little writing activity and design their own balloon
- Thanksgiving Build a Sentence Writing Center/Activity - the perfect writing center to engage students in writing. Create silly sentences while learning sentence structure and practicing writing.
Thanksgiving Dinner Math PBL - First Grade Math Project Based Learning
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Description
Plan Thanksgiving Dinner with this Math PBL specifically designed for early elementary.
This math project based learning task was specifically designed to be an introduction to PBL tasks perfect for Kindergarten, First Grade and Second Grade.
Give your students real-world application with math by having them plan their own Thanksgiving dinner this year! Work on reviewing and practicing applying addition and subtraction skills as your students complete this Thanksgiving PBL.
Students can choose their main course, side dishes, drinks, dessert, and decor they want to make their Thanksgiving dinner unique while sticking to a $25 dollar budget. Once students complete the task using the brainstorming page and the budget tracker page, expand this assignment by having students create their menu board as well as drawing what their Thanksgiving plate will look like. This would make the perfect bulletin board or hallway display.
What's Included:
- Engaging Class Instructions letter
- Menu items display pages (color)
- Brainstorming sheet
- Budget sheet (2 options)
- My Thanksgiving Plate page (2 options)
- Thanksgiving menu page
- How to Use page
When to Use:
- whole group math activity
- fall/thanksgiving party activity
- small group teacher led assignment
- take home thanksgiving project
Check out these other Thanksgiving activities and resources:
- Gratitude Journal - get students focusing on things they are thankful for around them. Great writing activity for November
- FREE Thankful Turkey Activity - a simple and cute freebie about things students are thankful for
- FREE Thanksgiving Parade Writing - after reading or listening to the book "Balloons Over Broadway" have students complete this little writing activity and design their own balloon
- Thanksgiving Build a Sentence Writing Center/Activity - the perfect writing center to engage students in writing. Create silly sentences while learning sentence structure and practicing writing.
