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Fix It, Town Council

  • Grades 5 to 8

Teams pick a real small problem near school, survey at least 20 people, price a fix on a $5,000 budget, and make their case to a mock town council.

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What's inside

  • Day 1: Choosing a local problem
  • Day 2: Levels of government
  • Day 3: How a council meeting works
  • Day 4: Writing fair survey questions
  • Day 5: Planning the sample
  • Day 6: Graphs, mean, and median
  • Day 7: Pricing the fix
  • Day 8: The proposal letter
  • Day 9: Practice the comment
  • Day 10: Council meeting

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