The Big Buck Adventure:

Part 2

Objective:  Students become familiar with making change.  They practice adding and subtracting money. 

Materials:  The Big Buck Adventure  by Shelley Gil, computer with Internet connection, television hooked up to computer.  

Book Overview:  
A little girl sets out on an enjoyable shopping afternoon.  Soon, however, she is overwhelmed with all of the choices she must make.  

Introduction: 
Review with students what happened in yesterday's story. Review story map from homework.  Review with students how to add and subtract money.  Tell them they will be going on a shopping spree of their own today.  

Web Activities:   
Students will be given a Shopping Spree activity sheet.  Explain that they have won $100 that they can spend on a fake shopping spree. They can visit websites to shop for articles.  Bookmark a few for them in anticipation such as Amazon.com and  eToys.com.  On their activity sheet, they can list articles they want and add up the grand total.  

Assessment:
Shopping Spree activity sheet can be used for assessment.    

Home Learning:
Students look for newspaper adds from a supermarket to shop for groceries with $50.

Additional Links:
Education 4 Kids-Money Experiences students learn how to solve real world math problems using money drills

Math Cats- Using Money students view graphics of money to help them solve math money problems

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