Lets-Go-Shopping WebQuest

A WebQuest for 2nd Grade Math

Steve Buckman, Jill Erickson and Amy Gwizdz

steven.buckman@gpschools.org; ericksj@dearborn.k12.mi.us, gwizdza@dearborn.k12.mi.us

Introduction

You are growing up. You are making more choices on your own. One choice you are starting to make is when to spend money. When you spend any money, you must know some things in order to be good consumers.

To help you learn these skills, you get to go shopping!

The Task

Your parents need your help. They have asked you to go shopping for them. They will give you a list of items to buy from different stores. You will be finding out how much the items on your list cost. You will be adding different amounts of money together. You will also be subtracting one sum of money from another to find how much change you should be getting back. You will be going to “Shopville,” a shopping area on the Web, to find the items on your list.

After you finish this WebQuest, your task will be to make your own shopping list for someone else to follow.

The Process

For this WebQuest, you are going to be working with a partner. The two of you will visit four stores. At the stores, you will be finding items, making decisions, adding and subtracting money, and finding change.

Read all the directions for the day before you go to Shopville. If you need to read the directions again click on The Process link on the page and you will be brought back here.

This is going to take you a few days to work on. It should take you about a half an hour to finish your tasks each day. If you do this WebQuest in order, you and your partner will become super shoppers!

Day 1

The first thing you want to do is get a little more practice counting money. Choose a money game from the links below and work together.

Counting Money - to practice counting money.

Funbrain Change Maker - to practice making change (change the
kind of money to include up to $5 bills).

Buy It - to practice counting money (change the level to Medium).

Day 2

First, get ready for Day 3 by printing out your Shopping Sheet. Click here to open the sheet, (choose Open Download File), then go to File and Print, and then click the Back button to return to these directions.

Next, decide which job you will do when you start shopping tomorrow. One of you will be the recorder and the other will be the researcher. The recorder will write info onto the Shopping Sheet. The researcher will operate the computer. You will switch jobs each day – that means that if you were the researcher on Day 3, then you will be the recorder on Day 4.

For the rest of the time today, get a little more practice with money on the Internet. Choose another money game from the list in Day 1 and enjoy.

Day 3

Today you will start shopping. Follow these directions:

1. Go to one of the stores in Shopville.

2. Use your Shopping Sheet to find the four items you
    need to buy.

3. Write the prices next to the items in the blanks of
    your Shopping Sheet.

4. Once you have found all four items from that store,
    add them together. Write the answer in the “total”
    blank.

5. Then go to the store’s checkout to find out how much
    money you have to pay with (you will have a
    different amount to pay with at each store). Write it
    in the “Paid with” blank on your sheet.

6. Subtract the two numbers to find how much change
    you will get from the store. Write it down in the
    “change” blank.

If you would like to have a copy of these directions, click here, choose File and Print, then choose the Back button. You will follow these directions each day you go shopping.

Now, click here to go shopping in Shopville.

Day 4

Today you will be shopping at two stores. Follow the same directions as yesterday. Remember to switch jobs today.

Click here to go to Shopville.

Day 5

Only one store left to visit. Switch jobs and go to it.

After you have found how much change you have for the last store, it is time to find how much money is left from all four stores.

1. At the bottom of the Shopping Sheet, write the total
    amount of change that you got from each stores.
    Now add the amounts together to see how much
    change you have in all.

2. Once you know how much change there is in all, ask
    your teacher to enter the Shopville Answers web site
    on your computer. Then go to Jill’s Ice Cream Place
    to see if your change matches the money needed to
    buy an ice cream cone.

3. Give your Shopping Sheet to your teacher.

Click here to shop in Shopville one last time.

Day 6 and Day 7

It is time for you to create a problem that someone else can solve.

1. Print out a New Store Template in Internet Explorer
    (click here, choose File and Print, then go back).

2. Get a sheet of construction paper from your
    teacher. Work with your partner to draw a store
    having 8 items for sale. You can decide what is
    going to be sold, but each item must have a price
    tag on it. Some prices should be in cents, others in
    dollars.

3. Complete the New Store Template. Fill in all the
    blanks. Be sure to:

Name the store
List the four items that need to be bought

List the price of each item

Write how much the four items cost in all

Find how much change you would get back if you paid with
$6.00

When finished, give your store picture and your New Store Template to your teacher.

Good luck, shoppers!

Evaluation

You and your partner will be graded based on these questions:

· How well did you cooperate with each other?

· Did you finish your Shopping Sheet correctly?

· How well did you follow directions to make a new store?

· Did you complete a new shopping list that someone else can use to add sums of money and make change?

You will be graded on the work that you do with your partner.

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Accomplished 3	Exemplary 4	Score
We worked cooperatively with our partner	We didn’t share the tasks fairly at all and the teacher had to spend a lot of time helping us work together.	We shared some of the tasks but the teacher had to spend some of the time helping us work together.	We shared most of the tasks fairly and the teacher only had to spend a little time helping us work together.	We shared the tasks fairly without the teacher having to remind us to work together.
We will finish the Shopping Sheet	We did not finish the Shopping Sheet	We finished the Shopping Sheet with some answers correct.	We finished the Shopping Sheet with most answers correct.	We finished the Shopping Sheet with all answers correct.
We will make a new store with 8 items and label each item with a price.	We did start a new store, but did not finish.	We made a new store but there were less than 8 items in the store.	We did make a new store, with 8 items in the store but there were prices missing from one or more items	We made a new store with 8 items in it. Each item had a price.
We will use the shopping list template and our new store to make a new shopping list that somebody else can use to add sums of money and make change.	We did not complete our shopping list.	We completed our shopping list showing four items to be bought with $6.00. We did not correctly add the sums of the 4 items together. We did not have the correct amount of change written at the end.	We completed our shopping list showing four items to be bought with $6.00. We correctly added the sums of the 4 items together. We did not have the correct amount of change written at the end.	We completed our shopping list showing 4 items to be bought with $6.00. We correctly added the sums of the 4 items together. We had the correct amount of change written at the end.

Click here to print a copy of the rubric (Choose File and Print, then click the Back button).

Conclusion

So, your visit to the stores in Shopville is over. You really didn’t get to “buy” anything, but you did get to take something away with you:

· You can add different sums of money together.

· You know how to subtract sums from an amount that is paid to get change.

All this practice with money will really pay off when it comes time to spend your own money!

Credits & References

Clip art and pictures within each store come from Microsoft Office. Pictures of store fronts in “Shopville” taken by Steve Buckman

The following three web sites were used in this WebQuest:

· Funbrain Change Maker at http://www.funbrain.com

· Counting Money at http://www.playtolearn.com

· Buy It at http://www.lizardpoint.com

Permissions
We all benefit by being generous with our work. Permission is granted for others to use and modify this WebQuest for educational, non-commercial purposes as long as the original authorship is credited. The modified WebQuest may be shared only under the same conditions. See the Creative Commons Attribution • Non-Commercial • Share-Alike license for details.

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