This idea came from several sources/events: TLC Extreme Couponing, My students stating how upsetting the ASPCA commercial was (The one with "In the Arms of The Angel"), their current field trip behavior, and a math unit around decimals and percents.
Our Couponing Project
What is it: Students will collect coupons relevant to their families shopping list. Students will also look at flyers to use their coupons on items already on sale. As a class we will total our savings using our receipts. The money saved will be our budget for buying items for an animal shelter (using our couponing skills).
Goals:
Math Related
· Students will be able to round to the nearest dollar.
· Students will be able to estimate an items cost with a coupon using mental math.
· Students will be able to determine the actual savings using a coupon.
· Students will be able to figure out the savings of a coupon involving percents.
· Students will be able to use multiplication to figure out the cost of buying multiples of the same item and double coupon savings.
· Students will graph our savings.
· Students will find the mean, median and mode of savings recorded.
· Students will determine what fraction and percent of our goal we have reached.
ELA Related
· Students will determine the spelling of items while making their list.
· Students will create coupon categories and put those categories in ABC Order.
· Students will write letters to their favorite companies, asking for coupons.
Social
· Students will work together to cut out, sort and exchange coupons.
· Students will present a couponing 101 power point presentation to other classrooms.
· Students will practice age appropriate behavior while our at a grocery store.
Home/School Connection
· Students will inventory and add items to our grocery store template.
· Students will collect the coupons that match items their families use.
· Students will bring in receipts so that we can graph our savings.
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