A Journey to the New World: A Columbus Day Themed, Project-Based Learning Activity

Project-based learning activities are always fun ways for students to practice material that they are learning in class. The project-based learning activities have students work to accomplish a goal. In honor of Columbus Day, I created a project to go along with the day.

Students can work on their own or in teams to plan out Columbus's first voyage.

 The activity has students buy ships, hire crewmen, and ordering supplies to last for the entire voyage.

The activity also has students working to keep within the approximate budget that Columbus had to work through as well. The worksheets assist students in keeping track of what is spent in each category and the success of the journey depends on them staying within that voyage.

The activity ends with students reflecting on the activity and account for expenditures for the voyage.

I always like to have options to do more with an activity, so I included a few options at the end. The activities range from additional math practice to persuasive writing and more. 

You can check out the activity here.

The Sign of the Beaver: A Work in Progress

I think I have been over-ambitious about my next product. I have been working on it for a while, but I haven't had very much time the past week or so. It's going to be a novel study of The Sign of the Beaver. I keep thinking of things to add to the packet. Does anyone have any projects that they are a bit too ambitious about?

Multi-Digit Multiplication Unit for 5th Grade

Multi-digit Multiplication
I just finished my biggest project yet: Multi-digit Multiplication Unit.

I haven't decided if this will be a growing bundle or not, but I'm pretty happy with it at this point. I included task cards....

a project based learning activity....

vocabulary posters....

and more!

I'm really excited about the Excel book that I included. You can input students' names and their pre and post test scores and then it will tell you the percent change in the score as well as a chart showing the change in student scores. When teachers have to report student progress, it will make it much easier.