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Planning a Trip for Christopher Columbus

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First graders plan a trip for Christopher Columbus. They use their math skills to construct a ship for Columbus' voyage. They show their ship and calculations to their classmates and build graphs to show the amount of supplies needed to survive the voyage.

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1st
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Math
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