Planning a Spring Carnival (Day 1 of
4)
Alignment Lesson
Day 85
Our school PTA needs help planning
the upcoming Spring Carnival. The PTA
wants to compare the cost of using a
party planner to the cost of having 5th
grade committees plan the carnival.
Find Day 85, “Spring Carnival
Planning”
• Complete the chart and describe the pattern.
• Which would be cheaper: using the party
planner and using 5th grade committees?
• Find Day 85, “Instructions for 5th Grade
Committees – Spring Carnival Planning”
Instructions for 5th Grade Committees
Spring Carnival Planning
Last year, the PTA used a party planner to plan the Spring Carnival. Not only did
they pay a lot for the help of the party planner, but they also felt that they didn’t
get the best deals on everything they needed. They need your help to make this
year’s Spring Carnival less expensive, but still fun-filled! The PTA needs 7 separate
committees and have included very specific requirements for your work.
For each committee, the PTA has included several charts containing information on
cost from last year’s Spring Carnival. This includes costs for certain items the PTA
purchased and cost (in dollars or tickets) for various items available during the
carnival. The PTA would like each committee to try to find a better offer for each
service and item needed for the carnival. The costs will need to remain reasonable
and will be compared to the costs from last year.
You will work on this project for 3 days and then present your ideas on the 4th day.
Your presentation will need to be supported with data tables, graphs and your
descriptions and comparisons of the data. Your presentation will need to
persuade the PTA that the options you present are less expensive, but still fun.
Instructions for 5th Grade Committees
Spring Carnival Planning
Day 1 - Work with your committee to fill in the missing information in the data
tables provided by the PTA. As a committee, create a better offer for each service
and/or item needed. Lastly, describe the patterns you notice in the tables
provided by the PTA and the patterns in the tables you create. Discuss any
relationships that exist between the two.
Day 2 – Work with your committee to create graphs based on your data tables
from yesterday. You should include a line representing the cost from last year and
the projected cost with your better offer. Describe the graphs and the
relationships between the costs.
Day 3 – Work with your committee to complete your descriptions of the graphs
and the relationships between the costs. Prepare your presentation. Keep in
mind, you should use the tables and graphs you created in your presentation. You
should also make clear the relationships between last year’s cost and this year’s
cost as you work to persuade the PTA that you’ve found less expensive options.
Day 4 – Individual committees present their findings to the class. Other
committees make notes about the change in cost and ideas presented by each
committee. Your teacher will serve as a PTA representative to decide if the
committee created fun-filled, less expensive options for the Spring Carnival.
Choose a Committee
Committees
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Bake Sale
Ticket
Small Activity
Big Activity
Food
Advertising
Paper Product
Let’s Get To Work
• Day 1 - Work with your committee to fill in the missing
information in the data tables provided by the PTA. As
a committee, create a better offer for each service
and/or item needed. Lastly, describe the patterns you
notice in the tables provided by the PTA and the
patterns in the tables you create. Discuss any
relationships that exist between the two.
• Find the numerical patterns and describe the patterns
they create.
• Record your descriptions on Day 85, “Describing the
Patterns”.
• How can creating charts help you see numerical
patterns easier?