This document describes an integer traveling trunk project created by LaTasha Arnold and Sara Busch. The trunk contains materials to teach 7th grade students about integers, including worksheets, images, manipulatives, and a CD. It outlines four activity stations where students will spend 25 minutes: 1) with the teacher reviewing integers and worksheet, 2) playing integer war cards, 3) watching an integer rules video and writing songs, 4) playing an integer board game. The challenges included scheduling conflicts and lack of planning time, but creating the project helped the authors gain experience with educational tools and software.

1. Integers: A Traveling
Trunk Project
By LaTasha Arnold and Sara Busch

2. Trunk Theme
Integers
• Adding, subtracting, dividing, and multiplying
integers
• Comparing and ordering integers

3. Goals and Objectives
Audience: 7th grade mathematics students
Purpose:
M7N1. Students will understand the meaning of positive and
negative rational numbers and use them in computation.
• a. Find the absolute value of a number and understand
it as the distance from zero on a number line.
• b. Compare and order rational numbers, including
repeating decimals.
• c. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide positive and
negative rational numbers.
• d. Solve problems using rational numbers.

4. Inside the Trunk
• Worksheets
• Images
• Artifacts (Math Manipulatives)
• Print Materials
• CD (digital files, movie, music, Poems)

5. Instructional Activity
Station Activity: Each station rotation will last for 25 minutes. This
rotation will last for two days.
• Station 1: Teacher station. The teacher will give a brief review
of the integer rules and allow the students to complete a
worksheet. The students will be allowed to use tile spacers to
assist with problems. Once everyone has finished, they will
review the answers as a whole.
• Station 2: Playing cards. Students will be allowed to play
integer war against each other. Students will also be allowed
to practice problem solving by placing cards on math mat to
form random problems
• Station 3: Video/Music station. Students will watch the 4:00
long video about the integer rules. The students will then be
given the opportunity to write their own song or script that
describe the integer rules.
• Station 4: Operation Integer: Students will be able to play
board game to practice their skills.

6. Challenges
We thought that it would be easier to work together
because we worked together. This proved to be
wrong our biggest challenge was still time and syncing
schedules.
- CRCT remediation
- Lack of planning time
- Family

7. Lessons Learned
I think that the most important thing learned is that
when you practice using software and hardware
often, you do not find them intimidating and fairly
easy to use. We both had experience with all of the
tools and did not need to spend time learning how to
use anything. We did not need to use much
technology other than a computer or printer.
However, the most challenging, if we had to identify
one, would be the creation of the comic strip. We
never had experience with the creation of one before
that project. However, it was not as intimidating this
time.