Topic: Transactions – Profit and Loss
Level: Secondary 2
Blog Title: Excuse me, are you a budding entrepreneur? (http://S2PW.blogspot.com)
Purpose:
- To raise funds for charity by making as much profit as possible from the sale of a product at the charity bazaar
Description of Activity:
- Students in their assigned groups are to brainstorm and decide on a product to sell which will give them the maximum returns. They have to apply prior knowledge on Budgeting, Profit and Loss taught in Maths. They also require skills from other disciplines as it is an inter-disciplinary project.
- Create a blog to conduct a survey using Polling to do research on the products that are attractive to secondary students, which they are willing to buy at the bazaar.
- Group members to - brainstorm on the product to sell- make a final decision
- Create a blog to invite their friends and schoolmates to Vote on the chosen product to confirm that the group has made the right. They will post a photo of the product in the blog.
- A Spreadsheet template for them to do budgeting and to calculate their actual profit/loss.
- Post a photo of their stall
- Members to do reflections after the project has completed:- Vote on how successful an entrepreneur the group is- 3 things they have learnt- 2 problems they encountered- 1 suggestion to improve on their projectPhotos of previous Charity Bazaar as examples
6 comments:
An interesting way of raising funds !
this activity allows collaboration among members and it hones their interpersonal skills. wonderful
Great way of using blog to do project work.
Nice application as pupils see Mathematics as a tool for real life problems:)
Good to have used various features of blog:)
Very good, making use of the polling or vote feature. Very practical and useful.
The activity illustrates how different features of the blog can put together to plan, execute and review an authentic task :D
Think the blogs operate at 2 levels:
(i) One that contains information and relevant resources of the task. This would probably include "learning points" and samples from the previous year. This blog will also link to the group blogs where the pupils carry out their survey, etc - this will help to 'coordinate' the various activities by each group (eg. a one-point access to the online surveys (ie. the polls) by each group).
(ii) Each group will develop their own group blog that captures their effort at the various of the task.
For brainstorming stage and analysis of the product to sell, students can tap on an online mindmapping tool (eg. BUBBL.US) to present their thoughts and organise the facts during the decision making stage.
At the end of the entire project, can also get them to put up their reflections in the blog.
Post a Comment