Kimberley Mogilevsky

Mogilevsky's "What's Poppin'? - Small Business Run by Students" is a small popcorn business run by third grade students that will be put into practice and reinforce many aspects of mathematics and language arts that will be learned in class. Students will individually fill out job applications and interview for positions within the "company." Then as a class, students develop an advertising campaign by creating posters, writing letters to local newspapers, producing and starring in a commercial for in-house viewing, and placing an ad in the school newspaper. The goal of this program is to teach and reinforce counting, adding, subtracting, graphing and identifying coin and dollar amounts. Students learn math and language arts skills as well as build self-confidence and self-esteem.