This winter project based learning unit combines gingerbread house math and writing into one fun and engaging gingerbread house for sale activity! Perfect to keep students engaged in learning around the holidays and winter break.

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⭐ This writing and math PBL unit is broken up into 6 sections:

• 1- Design Your House - students research gingerbread house designs, purchase supplies and calculate the total cost (student sheets are provided in decimals and whole numbers so you can easily differentiate).
• 2- Graph Your Gingerbread House - students collect data on candy used and create a bar graph.
• 3- Interior Floor Plan - students create a floor plan and calculate the area and perimeter for each room in their gingerbread house.
• 4- Describe Your Gingerbread House - students gather sensory words and different parts of speech to write descriptive sentences about their house.
• 5- Gingerbread House for Sale - students write a real estate listing for prospective buyers using descriptive writing.
• 6- End of Unit Projects - two different project options are included.

⭐ Skills Included:

• adding decimals
• multiplying decimals
• adding whole numbers
• multiplying whole numbers
• area and perimeter
• area of a rectangle with fractional sides
• data collection
• bar graphs
• sensory words
• parts of speech
• descriptive writing

⭐ Also included:

• Detailed teacher directions for each section including supplies, procedures, discussion questions and differentiation ideas.
• Student reflection and peer feedback sheets
• Grading rubrics - one for the math section and one for the writing section
• Extension ideas
• Entry event ideas to kick off the project based learning unit
• Unit wrap up ideas
• Photos of sample projects

This winter project based learning unit can also be used as a holiday or Christmas project based learning activity.

⭐ Estimated time to complete this project based learning unit : 5-7 days, depending on how much time you spend each day, and whether or not you do all of the components.

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