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Name of Project: Subject/Course: Other Subject Areas to Be Included: Project Idea Summary of the issue, challenge, investigation, scenario, or problem: Walmart Secrets Math Economics, Language Arts

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Teacher(s): Jennifer Calkins

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Many producers of want to have their product on the shelves at Walmart since they are the biggest selling retailer in the world. How Walmart picks the products that end of their shelves is a complicated task. There is a group of buyers who decide if Walmart will take your product or not. You will need to figure out what the buyers of Walmart look for in a product. You will make a sales pitch of your product to the Walmart buyers. If your product gets chosen you will need to market your product to the public. What would it take to get your product on the shelves at Walmart? 5.A.3a Identify appropriate resources to solve problems or answer questions through research. 5.A.3b Design a project related to contemporary issues (e.g., real-world math, career development, community service) using multiple sources. 3.C.3b Using available technology, produce compositions and multimedia works for specified audiences. 7.A.4b Apply formulas in a wide variety of theoretical and practical real-world measurement applications involving perimeter, area, volume, angle, time, temperature, mass, speed, distance, density and monetary values. 6.A.3 Represent fractions, decimals, percentages, exponents and scientific notation in equivalent forms. 10.A.4a Represent and organize data by creating lists, charts, tables, frequency distributions, graphs, scatterplots and boxplots.three-dimensional shapes found in practical applications (e.g., geodesic domes, A-frame houses, basketball courts, inclined planes, art forms, blueprints). 10.B.4 Design and execute surveys or experiments, gather data to answer relevant questions, and communicate results and conclusions to an audience using traditional methods and contemporary technology.

Driving Question Content Standards to be taught and assessed:

21st Century Skills to be taught Collaboration: Working in small groups. and assessed: Communication (Oral Presentation): Students will present a sales pitch on their product to a board of buyers.

Other:

Critical Thinking/Problem Solving: Students will discover what it takes to be a producer that sells in a Walmart store. Major Products & Performances Group: Students will create a sales pitch to a panel of (teachers acting as) buyers. They will need to collaborate together and create a model of
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what it takes to make a successful sales pitch to the buyers. They will need to create a strategy plan to follow when giving the sales pitch. Each student will need to each have their own component of the sales pitch that will make the buyer want to have the product in the store. Individual:

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Entry Event to launch inquiry, engage students: Assessments

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Students will have a video/person from a successful company that sells their product in Walmart expaining the process I took to get their product in the store.
Formative Assessments Quizzes/Tests (During Project) Journal/Learning Log Preliminary Plans/Outlines/Prototypes Rough Drafts Online Tests/Exams Summative Assessments (End of Project) Written Product(s), with rubric:
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Practice Presentations Notes Checklists Concept Maps Other: Other Product(s) or Performance(s), with rubric:______________________________________________ Peer Evaluation Self-Evaluation Other:

Oral Presentation, with rubric Multiple Choice/Short Answer Test Essay Test

Resources Needed

On-site people, facilities: Equipment: Materials: Community resources:

Video/Person who sells their product at Walmart. Computers with Internet, Graph Paper, Poster board, example of final product, Journal to keep notes, ideas, and measurements

Reflection Methods

(Individual, Group, Journal/Learning Log

Focus Group
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and/or Whole Class) Whole-Class Discussion Survey

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