This project idea came out of trying to have awareness for needy families. I have tried different versions of this project many times and have had success in every way with it. The students really love this project. They get the chance to bring in advertisements, catalogs and flyers as well as shopping online. They really enjoy the challenge of trying to shop for a family and helping them out. I have done this around Christmas time with a lot of success. The students learn about adding, subtracting and multiplying with decimals, staying within a budget and about how much presents cost during the holiday season. We also added in pricing out all the materials for Christmas dinner and this year actually took our classes to the local grocery store to price it all out. The people working there were awesome and taught our kids about what gets taxed and what doesn't. What I genreally do is create many different types of needy families and make some more challenging than others and then selectively distribute them to the kids. The displays and creativity of the procjects coming in have been amazing. Christmas trees, stockings, prezis, powerpoints, posters, mock presents have all been parts of projects recieved during this project. I have also been amazed at how seriously most students take this and often have them come to me with coupons and deals that they have found. I usually accept all of them but the students have to show the calculations on how much savings there are.
Here is one of the criteria sheets I give. All the criteria sheets are here.
Supporting
a Family
Name:
Your class has decided to adopt-a-family this
holiday season. The class has held many
fundraisers during the fall semester and has raised $300 for this project. You
have volunteered to do the shopping for this project. The family you have
decided to support is listed below.
Family
Adult Male: Pant
size W: 34 L: 36
Shirt size:
Adult XL
Adult Female: Size
12 or Large
Needs: Shoes
Child # 1 Boy: Age 12
Needs: Winter Coat
Child # 2 Girl: Age 8
Size: Size 10 or Small
Child # 3 Girl: Age 3
Size 4T – Needs: Hat and Gloves
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Your task is to decide what to buy the
family. You must meet the following
specifications.
§ You
cannot exceed the $300 (including tax) limit
§ Each
child’s total must be within $5 of another child’s total
§ You must
buy something for the parents
§ The
parents have requested that each child only get one toy, since they are in
desperate need of winter outer clothing and other basic clothing.
In addition, you must make an organized list for each person
with the items purchased along with the subtotal for each. Be sure to add in
the 13% tax to each item purchased except for children’s clothes which is 6%.
Then give a total cost for all of the presents and the amount of money
remaining.
You must bring in catalogues or flyers from
local papers or stores and show the items you have chosen along with its price.
Make
sure you show the price, show how much the tax is and the total cost for each
person !!!!!!!
You will be marked by on the following
criteria:
Accurate calculations
Followed specifications
Organized work
Creative display of your work 
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