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Family consumer sciences simulations for staff and administrators
Arctic Survival Activity (For Team-Building, Group Dynamics, and Personality)
This cooperative learning activity pits learners and their groups against survival experts to see if they can survive a plane crash in the arctic. Will they make more sound decisions individually, or as a group? How do groups reach consensus? What sort of identities, personalities, or traits tend to dominate group discussion or group activities? These questions and more lie underneath the surface of a classic and beloved classroom activity!These topics and more are broached in this product, whi
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Full Year of U.S. Government and Civics Essentials Bundle
Budgeting Activity - Financial Literacy - Super Bowl
Students love applying budgeting concepts to the biggest game of the year. Budgeting for a Super Bowl trip in the classroom requires research, a spending plan, and know-how. This is a great activity for students who need an opportunity to practice making and staying inside of a budget. Spending plans are sometimes boring, but the Super Bowl is never boring. Money management skills can secretly be practiced while budgeting for a trip to the Super Bowl. This resource is effective for virtual
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Advertising Strategies, Writing Practice, Budgeting for Super Bowl
Design a New Toy Project
Students will use the Engineering Design Process to create a new toy. Simple worksheets that students work through to create the new toy. Takes 3 days: day 1 students are developing the toy with the design process, day 2 students are creating a poster that describes the toy with an illustration of the toy, day 3 students present their toy idea to the class.
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6th - 12th
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Lifestyle Economics Project Simulation worksheet - career, car, mortgage, bills
Lifestyle Economics Project - career, car loan, mortgage, monthly bills
Students must use the internet once they are assigned a career and given a salary to figure out (after taxes), a car and home they can afford while still paying the monthly bills
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8th - 12th
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Family Consumer Science (FACS) Class Final Project-Startup Food Truck/Restaurant
Family and Consumer Science (FACS) students act as entrepreneurs for a Simple Startup Food Truck or Restaurant. There are actually TWO project files in this resource. The Food Truck file is separate from the Restaurant file. This is a REAL WORLD PROJECT that is project-based learning (PBL) at its best! NO PREP! Send it easily through your LMS to all of your students!⭐This project is aligned with the national FCS educational standards. Makes a great FINAL project ⭐Student Competencies:Entre
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6th - 12th
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Infant Simulator Student Contract & Parent Agreement | Child Dev | FCS
Before your students take home a RealCare Baby infant simulator, have them take home and fill out this student contract and parent agreement form. This resource will give you what I use and you will be able to edit it as you see fit for your class. It is a PowerPoint file to make it so it's editable and then you can save it as a PDF when it is the way you need it and give it your students. You May Also Like:Infant Simulator ReflectionInfants Unit Presentation & NotesInfant ActivitiesGuess Wh
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9th - 12th
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Stock Market Trading Simulation Game
You have told your students what trading on the floor of a major stock exchange like the New York Stock Exchange is like. Now let them experience some of the excitement for themselves. In this activity, students act as traders trying to accumulate all outstanding shares of a corporation in order to take it over. The first one to do so wins.
Students will gain an understanding of shares of stock as shares of ownership of a corporation, the strategy of corporate takeovers through buying out a maj
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9th - 12th
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Real Life Project! - A ONE MONTH VERY DETAILED & FUN SIMULATION!
This listing is for a big project that my students LOVE! In my Financial Management class, students learn all kinds of life skills, and for this simulation, I challenge them to test them out in the real world. Topics covered in this simulation:Choosing a career & figuring gross and net payMaintaining a checkbook and credit cardSavings and debtTransportation and car insuranceChoosing housingCompleting taxesPaying for childrenEither divorce or unemploymentVacations & holiday expensesStuden
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Financial Literacy Class Bundle
Sugar Lab: How Much SUGAR Is In That Beverage? Health Science, NO-PREP!
Do your health class, science, or PE students love to guzzle sugary sweet beverages and snack on junk food? Show them EXACTLY how much sugar they are ingesting when they eat those Fruit Loops and cookies or drink that Gatorade and soda in this interactive, zero-prep, customizable Sweet Science Sugar Lab. Your students will get hands-on experience converting grams of sugar from common foods and drinks into stackable sugar cubes. Students will have a FUN and eye-opening learning experience with th
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5th - 10th
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25 Awesome Funny Useful Business Education Classroom Posters Signs Bundle
Some of these are actually pretty funny - the kids love them. Some are for general/any classroom usage. Nice visual aids that actually enforce obvious classroom rules and procedures or give helpful tips for surviving in a Business Education classroom!Bundle of posters includes:1. 7 Parts of a Business Plan Poster2. Bell Doesn’t Dismiss You Poster3. Garbage Can Basketball Poster4. I Can See Your Cell Phone Funny Sign Poster5. No Food or Drink Sign in the Lab Sign Poster6. Please Use Spell Check
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Not Grade Specific
Potato Baby Project
Explanation: Talking about Child Development with your students? Give them a fun activity where they get to see a glimpse of the responsibilities of caring for an infant!My students absolutely LOVE this project. When I first heard of this idea, I thought, "Really? I don't think they'll get excited about a potato." But after I tried it, let me tell you, I am FOR SURE doing this every semester. They are obsessed!Why not egg or flour babies? I chose not to do egg babies because I didn't want to har
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Personal Budget Project and Career Investigation
This personal budget project allows students to create a personal budget based off a chosen career's average annual salary. Students will get a real dose of reality as they try to make their monthly budget fit into their monthly income after taxes!
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8th - 12th
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Monthly Budget Template
Are you looking for a way to track where all of your money is going? I created this template with a household budget in mind but it could also be used for school/departmental/classroom budgets. Another use of this spreadsheet would be for teaching budgeting skills to students of any age.This template is a Google Sheet so can be easily accessed on multiple devices. At the store and not sure if you can really afford that new pair of shoes? Pull up your budget from your phone and see. Because you
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Adult Education, Staff
Christmas Recipes in a Jar Project Special Education Entrepreneur Activities
Here are over 200 craft recipe ideas for gifts in jars! These DIY mason jar gifts are perfect for parents, staff, colleagues, volunteers, and more! These crafts are great for service learning, school fundraisers, pay-it-forward projects, entrepreneur activities, and your own personal gift-giving. Please click on the PREVIEW.NOTE: This isn't a fancy resource and simply has one recipe on each page. It is a great resource to save you time from searching!There are craft recipes for:Cookies, Breads,
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Not Grade Specific
Infant Simulator Reflection | Google Form Template | Child Development | FCS
After your students take home a RealCare Baby infant simulator, have them fill out this reflection form. This resource will give you a basic template and you will be able to edit it as you see fit. I love seeing the responses from my students and reading about what they learned from the experience. Included in the zip file are 5 header images so you can choose the one you like best and use it in the Google form.UPDATED: Now has 5 new questions for a total of 12 reflection questions!You May Also
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9th - 12th
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Safety and Sanitation in the kitchen Escape Room
EDITABLE Escape room geared toward safety and sanitation in the kitchen! This download includes all task cards and student directions as well as a teacher guide. Font is "Chiller" that comes free with Microsoft PowerPoint or can be downloaded online for free. Note: This CANNOT BE USED as a google slide. The format only works in PowerPoint. Do not attempt to use with google slides.
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7th - 12th
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Grocery Store Simulation Game (played in Google Slides)
This "choose your own adventure" style game simulates going to the grocery store and is a fun way to introduce students to independent grocery shopping. Some of the skills that are targeted in this game are:Understanding the layout of most grocery storesNavigating the store by reading overhead signsReviewing Food GroupsFollowing a shopping listPaying for your groceriesBagging your groceriesThere will also be some "side quests" along the way, which will open relevant games in a new tab, which wil
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Not Grade Specific
Kids Coupon Book - Printable Gift Idea for Kids to Parents
Our delightfully cute Kids Coupon Book is the perfect gift for kids to give! Share the joy of giving with a homemade gift you can use again and again. Perfect for Mother's Day, Father's Day, holiday gift shops, parent or grandparent birthdays or just because you care. :)Just print, cut and staple together (or tie with a bow) to make a fun, cute gift that any kid can give. All coupons come on easy print pages and individually in color and in black & white, so the kids can color and persona
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PreK - 4th, Staff
Real-life Budget activity
This activity will be a guided class activity in which students choose their career from a list of careers and median salaries. The students will then use websites and given information to determine their school loan payments, buy a house, determine their mortgage, utilities, car payment, insurance and groceries/living expenses. The students will be able to complete a budget sheet and then a short 4 question reflection sheet from the activity. My students did this at the end of 8th grade math
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6th - 12th
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Students learn how to choose a health insurance plan through dynamic simulation
Watch the quick teacher demo video: https://youtu.be/EqL5-ZB1Xl0 This activity is perfect for financial literacy an economic students.This activity was designed by a professional team (teacher, health insurance analyst, data analyst)Students learn the details of 3 popular health insurance plan type:Coinsurance PlanCopayment PlanHigh Deductible PlanStudents learn how each plan type differs based on:Insurance PremiumsAnnual DeductiblesCoinsuranceCopaymentsOut of Pocket Spending LimitsStudents use
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7th - 12th
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Budget Practice Scenarios Set revised 2023
Have your students practice basic family budgeting to address financial literacy standards with this 29 page packet. Students must read a scenario and interpret the financial information to create a monthly budget to determine the answer to a specific question regarding the budget. Fourteen scenario worksheets are presented with complete answer keys. This unique set can be used in many situations. They are perfect for formative and summative assessments. They can be used as whole group, individu
Grades:
7th - 12th
Sociology Social Relationships: Dating and Marriage Project
This is a complete simulation of the dating and marriage process. Students will create a dating profile, plan a wedding, budget for the family, and complete life scenarios. This project is designed to cover all aspects of social relationships. This project is easily incorporated as a whole unit or can be used separately. Included is a lecture to explain different types of family relationships. A total of 29 pages worth of activities for the students to dive into.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Finding Simple & Compound Interest - Car Activity
This is a quick, one page activity involving simple and compound interest. It presents a car and its price and offers four financing options. Students calculate the total to be repaid for each option. Great for comparing compound and simple interest or showing how length of a loan affects credit!Key is included. Discussion question page coming soon!TEKS: 8.12A, 8.12B, 8.12D, and 8.12E
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7th - 10th
C-Section Simulation Lab
Did you know 1 out of every 3 babies is born via c-section? This resource is a FUN hands-on learning experience for students to grasp the concept of what actually happens during a c-section. Students sign up for roles to play and use a simulation role play sheet to “perform” a Caesarean section. The simulation can be done in a health lab or classroom setting. The “expecting mothers” wear C-section aprons. Aprons include all the layers that are gone through in order to deliver a baby via C-sectio
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6th - 12th
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