The Supply Run

Run out of food, and the math stops being abstract.

The Supply Run drops your sixth graders into an expedition with limited supplies and a long way to go. Over ten days they ration food, read trail conditions, do the medical math, and choose a route, learning that the careful, boring plan is the one that survives. It is math under real pressure.

See what your students get, and why it lands.

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A worksheet was never going to teach this.

Your sixth graders are not solving textbook rate problems. They are leading an expedition, deciding how to ration food, when to wait out the river, and which route to take when one is guaranteed and the other is a gamble. Run the numbers wrong and the supplies run out. The students who treat food as the real constraint and plan around it make it through. That is math with a consequence attached.

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They are graded on their reasoning, not on whether they make it.

Here is what surprises teachers. A student whose expedition survived is not graded higher than one whose did not. Making it is not the point. Students are assessed on the quality of their reasoning, traced through their own daily journal. A careful plan that hit bad luck scores higher than a reckless one that got through. That is how a sixth grader learns to value sound planning over a lucky finish.

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Let the workbook handle the math.

No sixth grader should lose the lesson because the rationing math got away from them. The Supply Run comes with a workbook that tracks food, supplies, and the days ahead as the student makes each call. They enter their choices, and the totals update on their own. Their attention stays on the real question, what the expedition can afford to do, instead of on the arithmetic.

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Every day is already scripted. You just run the room.

You do not need a survival background to teach this. The guide scripts every day, names what students will likely say, and gives you exactly how to respond. The inventory, the river, the medical call, and the route are all written for you. You bring the facilitation. The simulation brings everything else.

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The lesson plan is already written.

Every simulation comes with a fully editable, admin-ready lesson plan. Standards alignment, daily pacing, learning objectives, differentiation, and an assessment plan are already done, so you can hand it to an administrator or adapt it to your district template in minutes.

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Everything you need to run it.