Middle School End of the Year Budgeting Project

Are you looking for a middle school end of the year project? Miss Kuiper's Classroom has you covered with this engaging real life budgeting project.

End of the Year Projects

As you enter the end of the school year, student engagement starts to become a rarity. This becomes even more accurate when you teach 8th grade because students will be moving on to high school.

So how do you get students to buy in during those last couple of week? My suggestion (and all time favorite activity) is this real life budgeting project.

This end of the year budgeting project has students create a week long summer vacation. And here’s the best part: Based on their destination, they have to look up actual prices and rates.

Staying at the Motel 6 in Seattle? Look up the rates. How are you getting there? Car, train, plane? What is the price of a round-trip flight to Seattle? What restaurants will you be eating at? Want souvenirs?

The questions and possibilities are endless!

This real life summer vacation budgeting project helps students see how much money it takes to go on vacation. It’s a reality check that increases financial awareness.

How does it work?

In this end of the year activity, students will plan a 1 week vacation on a budget. It must include a detailed itinerary of how they will travel, where they will stay and what will they eat. This activity will give students a taste of how to budget money for either a solo or group vacation.

The Project Includes:

12 page booklet
Student directions
Example Itinerary & Budget
Space for each day’s itinerary
Rubric for the project
Extension/Enrichment Activity and rubric

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I’ve done this project at the end of every school year (minus the first pandemic year 2020). It can span from 2 days to a full week depending on how detailed you want students to be with the budget project.

I have to say, living on the west coast, the majority of my students plan a trip to Disneyland. And with that, it’s so cool to see, even with going to Disneyland, how different their trips are based on what they prioritize.

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