3rd Grade Math PBL Memorial Day Patriotic Parade Project Based Learning Activity

Description

Connect classroom skills to a practical project with purposeful decisions and problem solving.

• Grades: 3
• Format: Printable pages + Google Slides

Learning Objective

Students will use perimeter, arrays, elapsed time, graphs, and word-problem strategies to plan a patriotic parade.

What's Included

• Teacher Directions and Standards Addressed
• Student Directions
• Parade Route (Calculating Perimeter)
• Parade Arrays (Arrays)
• Keeping Time (Elapsed Time)
• Parade Volunteers (Bar Graphs and Pictographs)
• Patriotic Festivities (One- and Two-Step Word Problems)
• Challenge 1: Marching Band (Creating a Line Plot, Comparing Fractions)
• Challenge 2: Parade Float (Polygons, Perimeter and Area)
• 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: 3.OA.A.1, 3.OA.A.3, 3.OA.D.8, 3.NBT.A.1, 3.NBT.A.2, 3.NF.A.3, 3.MD.A.1, 3.MD.B.3, 3.MD.D.8.