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

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

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4th Grade Math Project Based Learning – Trip to the Aquarium

Splash into a 4th grade math Project Based Learning adventure. Imagine planning a thrilling field trip to the aquarium with your fourth grade students where they will apply their math skills to a realistic scenerio. This print-and-go PBL is designed to not only help students develop a deeper understanding of essential math skills such as addition, multiplication, division, and interpreting data- but also have fun applying math skills.

 

This year, your class voted to take a field trip to the Aqua-Land Sea Life Aquarium. All successful school field trips begin with excellent planning. You, several of your classmates, and your teachers have volunteered to work on the planning committee. You will help determine how much the field trip will cost. You will also help make decisions about renting buses, creating a schedule for the day, and choosing classes. So, let’s get busy planning the very best field trip of the year!

 

As students plan a trip to the aquarium they will use fourth grade math skills to:

  • Determine ticket prices by adding and multiplying money with decimals
  • Calcualte profits from a fundraising bake sale
  • Use multiplication and division to plan buses and costs
  • Use time to schedule the trip and ensure that they have enough time to explore the aquarium
  • Use multiplication and division to determine student groups
  • Interpret data about aquarium animals
  • Students will be challenged to calculate feedings for different animals

 

This resource provides a fun and engaging way for students to apply math skills to real-world situations they can relate to. By working collaboratively and solving real-world problems, students will develop critical thinking skills and build confidence in their math abilities.

 

⭐Students evaluate their work with a self-evaluation rubric and response.

 

⭐ Additional “challenge activities” engage students and develop further understanding of the concepts and skills.

 

⭐ This 4th grade PBL incorporates the following math standards:

  • 4.OA.A.3 Solve multistep word problems posed with whole numbers and having whole number answers using the four operations.
  • 4.NBT.A.3 Use place value understanding to round multi-digit whole numbers to any place.
  • 4.NBT.B.4 Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
  • 4.NBT.B.5 Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number, and multiply two two-digit numbers, using strategies based on place value and properties of operations. Illustrate and explain.
  • 4.NBT.B.6 Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division.
  • 4.NF.B.3.D Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions by using visual fraction models and equations.
  • 4.NF.B.4.C Solve word problems involving multiplication of a fraction by a whole number.
  • 4.NF.C.7 Compare two decimals by hundredths by reasoning about their size.
  • 4.MD.A.1 Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units.
  • 4.MD.A.2 Use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, masses of objects, and money, including problems involving simple fractions or decimals and problems that require expressing measurements given in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Represent measurement quantities using diagrams, such as number line diagram that feature a measurement scale.
  • 4.MD.B.4 Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit.

 

Key Features:

✏️ Low-Prep & No-Prep Design – This PBL activity contains everything you need to make this a fun and meaningful project. The print-and-go format makes it easy to execute with a few simple materials and very little prep work required. The digital Google Slides format requires no prep at all – just assign and go!

✏️ Printable & Digital Format – Printable PDF & Google Slides formats make this resource perfect for classroom instruction, distance learning, and everywhere in between. Digital and printable versions are consistent, so they can be used for combination classroom and virtual instruction situations.

✏️ Educational & Engaging – This resource will capture the imagination of your students while they practice key math skills.

✏️ Differentiation – Three challenge activities mean that you can challenge your high-performing students while making the resource accessible to your on-level and below-level students.

 

✏️ Homeschool or Classroom Friendly – Students can work collaborativly or independetly on this project at their pace.

 

What’s Included?

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

 

Take a closer look at what this resource looks like in this video preview.

 

Looking for more differentiation? Check out the 3rd and 5th grade version!

 

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