4th Grade Math Project Based Learning – Trip to the Aquarium PBL Print & Digital

Description

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

• Grades: 4
• Format: Printable pages + Google Slides

Learning Objective

Students will calculate trip costs, plan transportation and schedules, and interpret animal data in a simulated aquarium field trip.

What's Included

• Teacher & Student Directions
• Planning a Trip to the Aquarium- Information Card
• Ticket Prices (Calculate costs)
• Transportation (Costs, Travel time, Seating arrangements)
• Busing Word Problems (Time, Elapsed time)
• Chaperones (Divide students into groups)
• Schedule for the Day (Creating a schedule, Time, Timeline, Word problems)
• Dolphin Discovery (Determine ages with In/Out machine)
• Penguin Palooza (Organize data, Bar graph and Line plot)
• Life in the Rainforest (Compare frog length to distance jumped, Snake length word problems, Comparing age and weight of tortoises)
• Challenge 1: Seal Feedings-1 (Calculate pounds of food)
• Challenge 1: Seal Feedings-2 (Cost to purchase seal food)
• Challenge 2: Gift Shop (Determine sales, Calculate percentage of money donated to Coral Reef Alliance)

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: 4.OA.A.3, 4.NBT.A.3, 4.NBT.B.4, 4.NBT.B.5, 4.NBT.B.6, 4.NF.B.3, 4.NF.B.4, 4.NF.C.7, 4.MD.A.1, 4.MD.A.2, 4.MD.B.4.