Money, Money, Money

Cooperative Project

Third Grade

Direction for the project:

• After watching the video, brainstorm with your group ideas of what you could do if you made a million.

• Create a 3 slide PowerPoint as a group.

• Slide one is the title slide with the name of the project and your group’s name, be creative.

• Slide two lists 4 things you might do with your money. Use pictures of things you want to buy. Search online for prices. How much will you spend? Total it up. What would you do with the rest of the money?

• Slide three lists things you could do to earn the money.

• Investigate 2 of the Websites.

• Each group member will write out an opinion sheet about the 2 websites you visited. Use the website evaluation form first, then list what you liked and disliked about the site. What did you learn?

Video – What if you made a million? By David M. Schwartz.

Websites – US Mint

H.I.P. Pocket Change™ Web Site - Time Machine,

Cyberchase . Quest | PBS Kids,

Moneyopolis®

Wise Pockets Clubhouse | Library.

Website evaluation tool - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/pdf/schrockwebevalelem.dot

Rubric for grading

Powerpoint Appearance and Content : If you made a million

Teacher Name: Mrs. Jukes

Student Name: ________________________________________

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1
Originality	Presentation shows considerable originality and inventiveness. The content and ideas are presented in a unique and interesting way.	Presentation shows some originality and inventiveness. The content and ideas are presented in an interesting way.	Presentation shows an attempt at originality and inventiveness on 1-2 cards.	Presentation is a rehash of other people's ideas and/or graphics and shows very little attempt at original thought.
Sequencing of Information	Information is organized in a clear, logical way. It is easy to anticipate the type of material that might be on the next card.	Most information is organized in a clear, logical way. One card or item of information seems out of place.	Some information is logically sequenced. An occasional card or item of information seems out of place.	There is no clear plan for the organization of information.
Cooperation	Group delegates tasks and shares responsibility effectively all of the time.	Group delegates tasks and shares responsibility effectively most of the time.	Group delegates tasks and shares responsibility effectively some of the time.	Group often is not effective in delegating tasks and/or sharing responsibility.
Text - Font Choice & Formatting	Font formats (e.g., color, bold, italic) have been carefully planned to enhance readability and content.	Font formats have been carefully planned to enhance readability.	Font formating has been carefully planned to complement the content. It may be a little hard to read.	Font formatting makes it very difficult to read the material.

Date Created: May 31, 2007 08:11 am (CDT)