 If I am unavailable please contact our classroom assistant, Ms. Smith. She is available Monday-Friday from 1pm-3pm. Thank you for your time and support! I look forward to seeing our students grow through this project based learning experience.

1. WHAT’S GOING
ON?
Ms. Kirsten’s 6th Grade Class
This presentation provides an up to date look at
what is going on in our classroom!

2. Upcoming Unit: School Store
Purpose of  Address the Mathematics State
Unit: Standard of solving problems involving
decimals, fractions, percents, and
Benefit: proportions.
 Through teaching the students how to
manage a school store they will learn
first hand how to manipulate numbers
and analyze the data they receive.
Organization
:  Students will be split up into groups to
manage the store and keep records of
their time spent in the store.

3. Roles in the Unit
 I will become the student during this unit. I want them to
Teacher: teach me what they have learned from managing the
store and manipulating numbers. I will be available for
group conferences and mathematical coaching.
 The students will then take on the role of the teacher.
Student: Together in their groups they will manage the school store
and assist each other in math issues that concern the
store (i.e. ringing customers, buying merchandise, adding
up income).
Parents:
 As the parent of these students you can serve as their
support system. These students are taking on a huge
adult responsibility. If we all can serve as a backbone for
them we can help them succeed in this project.
Community:
 Our community members are going to be a great third
party of information. I am planning on bringing in guest
speakers to teach our students about how to properly run
a business, give great customer service, and so much
more.

4. Project-Based Learning
What is it?  This is an instructional based
strategy that helps students to
develop effective collaborative and
Application?
problem solving skills.
 Students will apply these skills to
our project by solving complex and
real life issues.
 Project-Based Learning helps
create a student centered
classroom. It also makes projects/
activities accessible to those with
special needs.

5. Unit Objectives:
 Students will develop new ideas on how best to
Once calculate and store income
Completed:
 Students will be open and flexible to each other’s
suggestions on how to operate the school store.
This includes cleaning, buying merchandise, selling
products, etc.
 Students will be willing to help operate the school
store.
 Students will demonstrate the ability to manipulate
decimals, percentages, and fractions.
 Students will aid each other in math issues that
concern the store (i.e. ringing customers up, buy
merchandise, adding up income, etc)
 Students will deliver quality work to show their
progress in mastering decimals, fractions, and
percentages.

6. Curriculum Framing Questions:
Essential Question:
How can we make a difference in our community?
Unit Questions: Content Questions:
How do we set up a How do we calculate a
school store that is 1) customer’s total using
assessable to our school decimals?
body and 2) easy for us to How do we figure out the
operate? amount an item will be once
the percentage is taken off?
How do we manipulate
fractions?
How do we collaborate well

7. Contact Information:
Questions?  If you have any further questions
concerning our upcoming unit or
anything on this newsletter PLEASE
feel free to contact me during my
planning time between 8am-12pm
Monday-Thursday.
Contact Info:
 Kirsten F
 kcfredlund@crimson.ua.edu
 012-345-6789 ex: 567