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Performance Task:
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You are going on a vacation to a destination of
your choice. Your teacher will give
you an exact amount of money to
spend. Determine your budget for
gas, lodging, food, sight seeing and any miscellaneous expenses.
Students will:
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Make a realistic budget by researching actual costs.
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Use the computer to make a pie chart showing the percentage of money
spent for each area.
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Use the computer to make a bar graph showing a comparison of expenses in
each area.
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Orally present the information and results found.
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Knowledge / Skills:
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Perform operations with signed (positive and
negative) numbers, including decimals, ratios, percents, and
fractions. M.1
Understand the best procedures for statistical
data collection, organization, and display. M.5
Gather information from a variety of sources,
including electronic sources, and summarize, analyze, and evaluate its use
for a report. ELA.3
Prepare and deliver individual speeches by
gathering information, rehearsing, making eye contact, speaking loudly
enough, delivering information in a well-organized fashion, and appealing
to the needs of the target audience.
ELA.10
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Rubric:
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4 = 100% accurate percentages.
Adhered to budget.
Color-coded legend.
Graph/chart neat in appearance.
Able to read graph/chart without explanation.
Organized presentation, clearly explained.
3
= 100% accurate percentages.
Stay within budget.
Legend not color-coded.
Graph/chart not as neat in appearance.
Some explanation needed to read graph/chart.
Organized presentation, clearly explained.
2 = Inaccurate percentages for some
expenses.
Not within budget.
Only one graph/chart completed.
Legend not color-coded.
Graph/chart lacking in neatness.
Explanation needed to read graph/chart.
Presentation unorganized, information not presented clearly.
1 = Many mistakes in accuracy.
Did not complete graph/chart.
Not within budget.
No legend.
Not colored.
Presentation not done.
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