OT Middle School Executive Functioning Activity Plan Vacation for Google Slides™

Executive functioning skills are necessary for academic success. This is a 20 page resource that works on planning, organization, math skills, reading comprehension, handwriting, and more. Students will plan a camping tour of 3 National Parks, including shopping for camping supplies (based on weather chart), reading airline charts, renting a car, reading maps, and answering questions. Can be used for project-based learning with included worksheets, or extend the learning by having students research real-life prices from stores and rental car locations near them.

This resource is ideal for occupational therapy or speech language therapy sessions. Can also be used by resource specialists working on executive functioning skills. OTs can have the students write their answers on a separate piece of paper for handwriting practice. This resource is perfect for therapists who need an age appropriate resource for middle school or high school students working on executive functioning skills. Can be easily assigned as homework or can be done during virtual teletherapy sessions.

Included:

• Presentation with 20 slides (make sure students know to use in "edit” mode in order to type answers)
• Separate file with answer keys for all worksheets, including a spreadsheet showing how answers were determined for food budget
• 3 different National Parks (Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Great Smoky Mountains), with 1 "Know Before You Go" page, 1 map, and 1 worksheet with questions per park
• 3 worksheets using airline departure/arrival charts and rental car information with questions related to each
• 1 shopping worksheet for camping supplies with budget included
• 1 worksheet for food supplies with quantities and prices of items. Students will determine how many of each item is needed for each trip
• Extend the learning opportunities for each park
• Vacation scrapbook page
• Dear Diary writing page
• Presentation is 11X8.5" to facilitate printing of slides as needed

Students will practice applied math skills, budgeting, reading comprehension, and more. They will assimilate information from different worksheets, working on attention to details along the way.

They will need to utilize information given to make the best choices (such as using the weather reports to determine best sleeping bags to purchase or which size tent to purchase).

They will have opportunities to make choices of rental cars, with different mpgs and sizes. They will use that information to answer questions regarding how much gas they will use during the trip.

Lastly, they will fill out a budget worksheet with final tally, gathering information from the other worksheets.

**This is a Google Slide resource. TpT will ask for access to your Google Drive when you purchase this resource. This allows them to place the folder in your drive, nothing else. Many teachers choose to download to a personal drive then transfer to their work drive.

Note: These are the exact same activities as the PDF version, found here