Teach your students what it means to follow a budget by giving them a budget and a few Scholastic book order magazines. They can record the products they wish to buy and add up their spending along the way. There are 3 levels (budgets), including $25, $50, and $75. Each budget has it's own directions, recording pages, and reflection questions. You can choose to give your class different budgets, or all the same. Product includes analysis questions at the end for students to answer and discuss.
Challenge students to design the floorplan for their dream home! They brainstorm rooms and room sizes, and map them out on the chart paper. They keep track of the size of the room using area, arrays, and repeated addition sentences. Finally, students write about their floorplans and explain details of their favorite room in the house.
Give each student a printable, wearable watch and have them write a time on it. Options for times to pass out are included in the bundle. Then, students circulate around the room reading one another's watches and recording the times in both digital and analog forms.
Here's an easy way to incorporate a STEAM station into your math stations or somewhere else throughout the school day. Includes: - labels for various materials and blanks for you to add your own. - cards instructing students what to build. - extension cards prompting students to improve or alter their structure in some way after building - reflection writing page
Text-dependent question to go with the math story "Millions to Measure." Page includes sentence starters to help students answer the question. Teaching your students to answer text-dependent questions? Do it with fables! Find my 4 fable TDQs for a bundled price here!
Students choose activities to time themselves doing for one minute. They practice using the wall clock or individual timers to time themselves and/or a partner doing each activity. They fill in the blanks at the bottom of the page to review how long a minute and an hour are. Suggestions for activities are: jumping jacks writing the alphabet saying the alphabet push-ups sit-ups running around a track burpees Let your studnets come up with others, write them on the board, and let them choose as th