School’s out for summer! Well, not quite yet. But this Beach Day project-based learning activity for grades 2-5 will bring a vacation vibe to your classroom and keep your students learning right until the last day of school. This end-of-the year resource includes math, grammar, reading, and writing activities.

Shell-ebrate the end of the school year in style with 8 fun beach-themed activities. Students will dive into learning as they pack for a day at the beach, learn to navigate their way around the beach, and enjoy a variety of beach activities including sandcastle competitions and collecting seashells. They’ll also indulge in some delicious treats at the Beach Café, learn about ocean animals, and reflect on their sand-tastic day through poetry. 

Each of these activities require students to use and apply academic and problem solving skills to answer questions and complete the task, but they’ll “shore-ly” be having so much fun they won’t even realize they are learning.

This PBL activity includes two separate versions, one for grades 2-3 and one for grades 4-5, so it is easy to differentiate.

And best of all Beach Day PBL is easy to prep and implement. No long supply lists. No complicated instructions. And no greasy sunscreen or lingering grains of sand to contend with. All you have to do is print and present. So students can catch a wave of learning while teachers relax and bask in the glow of students’ sunny smiles.

What’s Inside:

• 8 different learning activities related to enjoying a day at the beach
• 2 separate versions for lower (2-3) and upper (4-5) grades
• Color and black and white versions
• An answer key
• Detailed teacher directions

Skills covered:

• Grammar skills: vowels, singular and plural nouns, syllables, adjectives, compound words
• Map skills
• Addition & subtraction (also multiplication & division in the upper grade version)
• Geometry: polygons
• Money
• Time
• Bar graphs
• Reading comprehension
• Poetry: Haiku

❤️❤️ Why You Will LOVE This Resource ❤️❤️

• Celebrates the end of the school year with a fun, educational activity 
• Project-based learning engages kids with real-world based scenarios
• Easy to prep, use, and differentiate

How to use this resource:

There are a variety of ways to use this resource in the classroom:

• Use as a whole group activity to celebrate the end of the year.
• Use one or two activities per day during the last week of school.
• Use individual activities as morning work.
• Place the PBL activities in centers.
• Assign to students to complete individually. 
• Allow students to work together or in a small group.
• Enjoy a beach-themed day and make this part of the celebration.
• When using the colored version, print just a few copies and laminate or slide into page protectors. Students can use an expo marker to complete the activities and you’ll be able to reuse this PBL for years.

Differentiation:

• This PBL activity is easy to differentiate. We’ve included two complete versions of the activity for you. One is designed for lower grades (2-3) and the other is designed for upper elementary (4-5).  Select the activities that best meet the needs of your learners. 
• Use either the lower-grade version or the upper-grade version, or pick and choose activities from each. The activities are the same, but the upper version has more complicated calculations and more difficult math concepts.
• Use different versions of the activities with individual students.
• Complete more difficult activities as a whole group or in small groups. 

Time to Complete:

This activity should take about 60 minutes, depending on the skill level of your students and whether or not they are working in groups. Feel free to modify the activities to accommodate your schedule.

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