Create a Lemonade Stand

Our project based learning was lots of fun last week.

We planned and made scaled models of Lemonade Stands. We also created a Business Plan for our ventures. 

Lots of laughter about profit and loss, how much does one recipe make and how much to sell one glass for?

Here are the plans I made...

 Lemonade Stand - Make a Model and create a Financial Plan

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The task is to design a Lemonade Stand model to scale and produce a business plan to sell lemonade to customers.

I use these steps for Project Based Learning in my teaching and learning space.

1. Setting the stage for the learning that is about to happen and make a link back to a real life scenario

2. The teacher negotiates the criteria for evaluating the projects

3. Students become project designers

4. Students discuss information needed for their designs

5. Students accumulate the materials necessary for the project

6. Students create their projects

7. Students prepare to present their projects

8. Students present their projects

9. Students reflect on the process and evaluate the projects based on the agreed criteria

Students can work individually, in pairs or in groups.

They work through a task to design an outcome using their creative abilities.

The task is usually interdisciplinary and can involve Numeracy, Literacy, Science, Design and Technology.

The teacher’s role is to guide, check in and help to uncover content to be covered.  

Open ended problem solving

As we get to know our new group this week - we are focusing on taking anecdotal notes. 

To assist us to do this, each member of our team has devised an open ended task.

I am in a team teaching arrangement with Fiona (how lucky am I?). So this task is the one I devised. We will do Fiona's next. Then we will do the other four tasks next week from the other four teachers. 

I have used a catalogue from a local store and we paired our kids up. They were also responsible for correcting each others work and giving feedback.

Question 1 was reading prices

Question 2 was spending $50 and who could get closest to that amount

Question 3 - if you have 23 children in your class and you needed to buy certain items (6 in the list) how much would it cost?

Question 4 - if you were setting up a new study and had an unlimited budget - what would you buy and how much would it cost?

They were motivated and worked really hard.