Plan a Holiday Party

Area, perimeter, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and fractions Math Project-based Learning Plan a Holiday pa r t y

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Part 1

Before Beginning Decorative party ideas for kids: https://youtu.be/ScqERWPXDf4 I like to show this video before we start to get kids excited about the project. I have them guess the theme of our next project! This also ties in well with the how-to writing.

Discussion Points • What are your family traditions for the month of December? • Why do we need to create a guest list? • What steps do you need to take to plan a party?

Differentiation Establish advanced students as “accountants”. Set them up with stations around the room where other students can bring their work to be checked in the rest of this project. Train the “accountants” to circle the problem areas, but not complete the work for the students. If a student has trouble finding the error, they can join you in small group for some extra help. Rotate accountants so that they can still work on their projects.

Connections • Writing: Write a how-to essay or speech on how to create something for the holidays (decorations, recipes, etc.)

Process Once students create their guest list, they’ll be willing to do whatever needs to be done to successfully complete their project. Use part I to connect this project to each student’s family traditions. You can use this as a “Christmas party”, “Winter Party”, etc. It’s open-ended to fit your needs! Make sure that students choose between 10-30 guests. Do not have every student fill every line – this will make every student’s project very similar. This guest list will be used for the other parts of the product, so have them store this and the other materials somewhere safe like a PBL folder.

Recommended Time: 10 minutes+ discussion time

When people plan their holiday pares, they ir begin with the guest list. The number of people coming to the party determines how the party is planned in a many ways:

Ø How many tables and chairs you need to set up Ø How much food you should buy Ø How many invitaons to make Ø The overall cost of the party

My Guest List – Choose 10-30 Guests

Myself

Part 2

Before Beginning Show students local party venues in your area. Discuss what the word venue is and how the size of your venue depends on how many people are attending your party.

Discussion Points • How does our number of guests affect our party planning? • Why is total area of a venue important? • How are length, width, and perimeter related to the total area of the venue?

Standards • 4.MD.A.3 Area and Perimeter

Differentiation The larger the venue, the more complex the work will be. Students that want to take on a bigger project can plan a bigger party. Use small group to help struggling students and make sure to begin every part of this PBL with a mini-lesson targeting the skills used in the project.

Part 2: Rent a Space (15-30 minutes) Have students choose a venue based off of their guest list. They can choose any venue, even if it’s much larger than they need, but it will significantly impact their budget. Some students will end up coming back and choosing a new venue when they realize they overspent on it. That’s not a bad thing! This is real life – we get grand ideas and then we have to tweak a lot in order to make our vision happen on a budget. Once students choose their venue, have them draw the room size on the graph paper using the room dimensions (length x width). They can draw it anywhere on the graph paper.

Extension: Have students calculate the total area for all venues by multiplying the length times the width. It will also give them idea of the actual size of each venue compared to the others (the room in the castle is HUGE).

Part 2.1: (45-60 minutes) Graph everything in pencil because it might need to be moved around if there isn’t enough space with one configuration!

In this part, students will add the tables to their layout. Have students begin by graphing their candy station and serving table. Discuss where a good place would be for each, and how much room is needed for walking space around these tables. The serving table could be put against a wall, or it could be put in the center so that people can help themselves to the food from both sides of the table (this is especially important if you have lots of guests, so that you don’t end up with a huge line).

Next, students will graph tables for people to sit at. The number of tables they graph is based off of their number of guests. If they choose the party bus, which seats up to 8, and try to graph enough tables for 12 people, they’re going to realize that they don’t have room and need to select an appropriate venue. On the other hand, if they book the castle and only have 10 people, they will have a lot of room left over after they graph their tables.

I have students evenly space chairs, taking up 1 square ft. for each chair. See my example for a visual of this.

©2016 Performing in Educaon, LLC Part 2: Rent a Space Your total holiday party budget is $50/person. With this budget you will need to rent a space, buy food, and decorate, so don’t spend more than you need to on the space. Draw a rectangle on the graph paper using the room dimensions that match the space you have chosen to rent. Venue Name Cost to rent for Room Number of 1 night Dimensions People Seated (L x W) Holiday Hideaway $150 20 ft. x 20 ft. up to 16

Party Boat

$550 35 ft. x 14 ft. up to 16

Party Bus $200 30 ft. x 8 ft. up to 8

The Carriage House $400 32 ft. x 25 ft. up to 36

Snowflake Castle 50 ft. x 50 $1,000 up to 100 ft.

= 1 .

©2016 Performing in Educaon, LLC Part 2.1: Design Your space Highlight the space you decided to rent. On the graph paper, create the layout of your room by first graphing where you want the candy station and serving tables using the given dimensions. Next, graph the number of tables you need for the number of guests on your guest list. Venue Name Ta ble Si ze s Candy Station Serving Table length x width Size Size Holiday Each table Hideaway One Serving seats 4 6’ x 3’ Ta ble

8’ x 3’ 4’ x 4’

Party Boat Each table One Serving seats 4 8’ x 3’ Ta ble

10’ x 3’ 4’ x 4’

Party Bus Each table One Serving seats 4 6’ x 2’ Ta ble

6’ x 2’ 4’ x 4’

The Carriage House Each table One Serving seats 6 8’ x 6’ Ta ble

12’ x 3’ 6’ x 4’

Snowflake Castle Each table Two Serving seats 10 10’ x 10’ Ta ble s

16’ x 4’ each 8’ x 6’

Remember that all projects will look different.

Holiday Hideaway The Carriage House You will have a few extra chairs with 30 guests invited!

Party Boat

Snowflake Castle: 10 guests is too few!

Party Bus

Part 3 Before Beginning There are two organizers to choose from for this part: one with the serving size filled in, and one with the serving size blank. Use the second organizer if you want students to estimate the serving size for each item. You may need to bring in a 2L soda and cups to illustrate serving size. For the other items, you can bring in similar size items and talk about weight in pounds.

Standards • 4.NBT.B.4 Add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers • 4.NBT.B.5 Multiply whole numbers • 4.NF.B.3.D Adding fractions/4.NF.B.4.C Multiplication of a fraction by a whole number (Candy station)

Discussion Points • What are serving sizes? Will each person eat exactly the same amount? • What food items will we have at our holiday party? • Why is it important to carefully plan out the food for a holiday party?

Connections • ELA: This is a great time to read about cooking or holiday traditions during your ELA block. I like to have my students read short stories about different traditions and journal about what they’ve read and how it relates to their math project. • Science: Bring in some of your favorite soda bottle science experiments while you’re talking about 2L serving size. • https://www.essentiallearningproducts.com/soda-bottle-science-experiments-john-cowens

Process The budget spreadsheet (first page of this section) will be used multiple times for all pieces. Begin by having students calculate their total budget. They will do this by multiplying the number of guests x $50. Write the amount on the top line above the table AND in the table where the arrow points. Model this for students explicitly because this step is very important for the rest of the project. Recommended Time: 90-120 minutes (all parts) ©2016 Performing in Educaon, LLC Part 3 cont.

Part 3.1 Party Food & Drinks Use one of the food pages: with servings or without. The blank one is just another way to get students to talk about serving size and estimation. If you use the blank organizer, you can talk about student experiences – how much they eat and how much the adults eat at their holiday dinner.

Have students use serving sizes to determine how many of each item they need. Use the cost sheet at the end of this section OR a grocery store ad to find out the total cost. Write this information in the table. The grocery ad adds another real-life connection, and also gets students thinking deeper about math. They will have to do a lot more problem solving because serving sizes may be different than the amount that is advertised in the circular.

If your students want to serve different food, allow them to do so! They can research and add ANY food they’d like to serve to make their party truly customized. This is the beauty of project-based learning! If your students don’t have their own devices, leave your computer available for research with a sign-up sheet so that students can take turns looking up the price of items. Only allow students to use 2-3 websites to find prices. I preload the websites so that students know where they can look.

After the total cost of all the food and drink items have been calculated, subtract it from the remaining budget on the budget spreadsheet.

Part 3.2 Candy Station A candy station is like a dessert station, but with lots of candy! This is super popular at weddings and you can find a lot of cool photos to show your students by searching “wedding candy station” on Google images. Do this before you start to get your students PUMPED! The directions tell students to get 㽇 lb. of candy per guest, so they will need to calculate how many total pounds of candy they need (of all types mixed together – NOT EACH TYPE OF CANDY).

Have students draw models to show calculations. For example, if they want to buy 2 pounds of hard candy (which comes in 㽇 lb. increments) model showing the cost per 㽇 lb. bag. Model and facilitate like crazy during this part! Fractions are tricky! Students don’t need to get every type of candy. You may want to show them how much candy is in a pound by bringing in some bags of candy. A mail or kitchen scale would be great as well! $2 $2 $2 $2 2 lbs. at

Deduct the total candy cost from the budget spreadsheet. $2/ 㽇 lb. $2 $2 $2 $2 = $16

Space Rental

Food & Drinks

Candy

Money Left Over à

©2016 Performing in Educaon, LLC Part 3.1: Party food & Drinks Calculate the amount of food and drinks needed based on your number of invited guests. Use this information to calculate the cost of food and drinks. Place the total cost of all the food and drinks on your party budget spreadsheet.

8 lb. Ham 10 lb. Ham 15 lb. Ham 3 lb. Mashed Potatoes Serves 14 Serves 18 Serves 30 Serves 10

2-Liter Soda Serves 6

1 Dozen Rolls Serves 12

Food Item Amount Cost Total P r i ce Needed or Size

Ham

Mashed Potatoes

Rolls

Soda Pop

All Items (Write on budget sheet)

8 lb. Ham 10 lb. Ham 15 lb. Ham 3 lb. Mashed Potatoes Serves ___ Serves ___ Serves ___ Serves ___

2-Liter Soda Serves ___

1 Dozen Rolls Serves ___

Food Item Amount Cost Total P r i ce Needed or Size

Ham

Mashed Potatoes

Rolls

Soda Pop

All Items (Write on budget sheet)

©2016 Performing in Educaon, LLC Part 3.2: Candy station Decide which candy you want to include in your candy station. Try to get at least 㽇 lb. of candy for each guest The more people attending your party, the more candy you will need. Each bag of candy comes in a 㽇, 㽈, or 1 pound size. Model to calculate the total price of each type of candy.

Number of guests x 㽇 lb. = _____ lbs. needed Pounds Candy Type Cost Needed Total Co st Chocolate Bar $5 for 1 lb.

Hard Candy $2 for 㽇 lb.

$2 $2 $2 $2

Ring Candy $4 for 㽈 lb.

$4 $4

Soft Candy $6 for 㽈 lb.

$6 $6

Gummy Bears $12 for 1 lb.

$12

Jelly Beans $5 for 㽇 lb.

$5 $5 $5 $5

Rock Candy $8 for 㽈 lb.

$8 $8

Total candy station cost (Write on budget sheet):

The following pages can be given to students to help them calculate the cost of food, drinks, and decorations. I highly recommend getting grocery store ads to use instead for prices. This adds another level of real-life math application! Most holiday ads will include rolls, potatoes, ham, and soda.

You can also provide students with 2-3 websites to use to research decorations. I have included a very limited selection on the price list.

If you don’t have technology, you can print out pictures of holiday decorations with prices and paste them around the room for students to “shop”.

*Blank spaces are included if you want to write in other items. A challenge sheet is included if you have advanced students that are ready to add and subtract decimals.

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Decorations Food

Inflatable Snow $64 Ham $4/lb. Globe

3 lb. Mashed Holiday Lights $32 $6 Potatoes

1 Dozen Rolls $4

2-Liter Soda $2

Decorations Food

Inflatable Snow $63.49 Ham $4.25/lb. Globe

3 lb. Mashed Holiday Lights $32.50 $6.23 Potatoes

1 Dozen Rolls $4.29

2-Liter Soda $1.50

Remember that all projects will look different.

Part 4 & Final Product

Process • Students can research anything else for their party if they have money left over. If they have a huge budget they might even be able to hire a local DJ! • Have students create an invitation and staple it to the front of their project pages, or paste to a front of a folder with the work inside. • Have students check their work again for accuracy. This is where students should make any revisions to their work. If it’s hard to read, print out new pages and have them fill it out again so that they have a clean copy. • Critique & final revision: I require a written justification paragraph to accompany their work. During this step, students work in small groups or partners to review all items & give feedback. The students then go back and make final revisions. • Presentation: They can create video presentations, artwork, posters, and so much more to present their work. Because these presentations are very detailed, I usually give them two full class periods to finish them. • Here are the top 5 online programs my students love to use: http://performingineducation.com/2015/03/5-great-computer-programs-for-multimedia-projects.html • 3D Models are really fun too! You can have students use household items to create a small model of their holiday party. • For presentations, you can have students present one at a time while the remaining students grade & give feedback on paper. We have large class sizes, so I prefer to have them present to smaller groups of 6-8. This makes it more intimate and allows for students to have time to ask questions. It can be tedious to sit through 30+ presentations on similar topics, even if they use different types of media to present their ideas.

Other Ideas • Throw a holiday class party and have students do extra research to find the costs and amount of snacks needed for it. • Design an invitation for your party (see next page for template). • Work in groups to make a table display with the math and some holiday food/decorations. • Write about the process of planning a party. • Write a creative narrative about your fictional holiday party using the characters and items from your project.

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