Description
Connect classroom skills to a practical project with purposeful decisions and problem solving.
- Grades: 2
- Format: Printable pages + Google Slides
Learning Objective
Students will use length, arrays, time, graphs, money, and shape skills to plan a patriotic parade.
What's Included
- Teacher Directions and Standards Addressed
- Student Directions
- Parade Route (Calculating Length)
- Parade Arrays (Arrays)
- Keeping Time (Telling Time)
- Parade Volunteers (Bar Graphs and Pictographs)
- Patriotic Festivities (Word Problems, Money, Measurement, Place Value)
- Challenge 1: Marching Band (Plotting on a Number Line)
- Challenge 2: Parade Float (Polygons, Partitioning Shapes)
- Evaluation & Rubric
- Answer Key
Ways to Use
Project-based learning, enrichment, collaborative problem solving, or a culminating activity.
Preparation
Preview the student pages, choose the activities, and print the pages you need. For digital use, check device and internet access and assign the version you will use.
Standards & Skills
Source-listed alignment: 2.OA.A.1, 2.OA.C.4, 2.NBT.A.2, 2.NBT.A.4, 2.NBT.B.7, 2.MD.A.1, 2.MD.C.7, 2.MD.C.8.








Kimberly S. –
This was so much fun during summer school! The students loved planning out their parades!
Orton-Gillingham and WRS Supports –
Students loved this project for center time! Thank you!
Sliding Through Second –
We have been talking a little bit about Memorial Day, as we will be out for summer when it happens. This was a fun activity that went with our theme!
Brendon G. –
Since there were some activities that my students had not learned yet, I planned for my students to work in table groups and we reviewed answers whole-group. They did really well working in teams and I loved how this activity built teamwork and provided exposure to concepts we hadn’t covered yet in our math curriculum.
WithThemInMind –
My students at tutoring enjoyed working on this PBL during the week of the Fourth of July! They loved getting to pick and choose what activities they wanted at their parade!
jonathan –
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us! We are happy to hear your students enjoyed this resource.
Jenifer Z. –
This was challenging for my 2nd grade summer school students. I was looking for something that they could work on independently, and they were not able to complete the pages without a great deal of help.
Smithleen –
WE had a blast with this! So well-designed
Tamaran B. –
I used this pal as a first week activity for incoming third graders, great reviews to previously taught skills!
L’erin D. –
Awesome reosurce to use for PBL!