Chris Reau

An activity where students can plan their own vacation. Students will create an itinerary and must budget for their trip spending under the allotted amount depending on where they travel (within the US $2000 or internationally $5000).

This is a great station activity as it is self-checking. Students solve the problems in each box. The sum of each row and column should equal the "magic" number. This allows students to self-assess their correctness.

At the start of each school year parents and teachers alike go out and buy school supplies. Now it's your students turn. I have provided a basic supply listened sheet for work. You can use paper ads, but I used online sales. For my 6th graders, I limited their website options to 2, Staples or Walmart. Depending on the grade level, you may only give them 2 sites to find all the items, or leave it more open-ended and have them find the best deals out there. This helps students develop fluency with

Students work with a partner and each partner is responsible for a set of questions. For each row, the answers should come out the same. This allows the students to check if they are solving their problem correctly.