5th+Grade

=Christmas Shopping Webquest =

**// INTRODUCTION: //**
Christmas is only a few days away. You have saved to buy everyone living in your household presents for Christmas. You were able to save $200. Now how will you spend it?



// TASK //
Your task is to set up a [|budget] for your Christmas shopping trip. You need to make 3 decisions: 1) How much money do you want to spend on each person? 2) What do you think you want to buy each person? 3) At what stores will you shop?

//** PROCESS **//

__STEP #1:__ Create a budget worksheet using Microsoft Word.. You are to take the $200 you have saved and create a budget [|(Part A of Worksheet)]showing how much money you plan to spend for each person living in your household and list at least 3-4 ideas for each member of your family. __STEP #2:__ Then, you are to use the [|resources] provided to "go shopping". Remember, you must try to stay within your $200 limit. You can buy anything you want as long as you get at least one present for each person living in your household. __STEP #3:__ As you are shopping you will need to go back to your worksheet that you created with MS Word [|(Part B of worksheet)] and write down how much money you __ACTUALLY__ spend on each person, what you bought them, and where you bought each item. __STEP #4:__ After you have all your shopping done, you have documented what you spent, and where you spent it, you need to figure out if you stuck to your budget. [|(Part C of worksheet)] How much money did you spend? How much do you have left? __STEP #5:__ Finally, you will get to create a PowerPoint presentation that will tell everyone in your class how you spent your money. Please include in this presentation the following __FIVE__ slides.

Slide 1: Title slide with your name

Slide 2: Tell who you shopped for, including their name and what you bought them. Include pictures of items bought.

Slide 3: Tell how much you spent overall,and how much money you have left.

Slide 4: Tell what was challenging and less challenging about this project. Why?

Slide 5: List all the the concepts you can think of that you learned or used when completing this project. = = = ** Due Date:12/19/13 ** = = ** Presentation Date: 12/20/13 ** =

The webquest was originally created by ** Nicole Umphrey ©December 2008. **