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Social studies projects for Microsoft Excel
Middle School Monthly Budget Project
In this project students will choose from 3 options for jobs, housing, transportation and food shopping to make a monthly budget. Students will practice financial decision making and opportunity cost to see how their choices impact their monthly budget. Highly scaffolded, this project can be done in conjunction with class discussion or independently. The choices are based on cost of living in Philadelphia but options can be personalized to where you live and what is relevant to your students.
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6th - 9th
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Personal Financial Literacy Full Course Notes Bundle with Assessments and Agenda
This complete 2024 updated collection of notes covers my entire year teaching Personal Finance at the high school level and can easily be adopted for a one semester course as well.*Download the preview above to see my Cost of Housing notes from my Budgeting Unit for an example of how my notes are typically structured*This full set contains 44 sets of notes within ten major units, as well as a midterm and final project, full daily agenda (for 93 65-minute class days with links to activities used)
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Budget Spreadsheet Project (personal finance & math skills)
A step-by-step project with detailed instructions on how to set up an Excel spreadsheet budget. Students will apply math skills in context of a real-life budgeting situation.
Students will create a budget:
-Based on their future career choice.
-Independently by following the instructions using an Excel Spreadsheet.
-Over the course of at least 2 class periods (typically students take at least 2.5 hours to complete this project).
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6th - 12th
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Personal Budget Spreadsheet
This is a personal budget spreadsheet that I created which completes automatically calculations. I use it for my Senior Economics course, but it could easily be adapted for all grade levels and classes (life skills, mathematics, etc.).
I have students search and select a job listing in the career field they wish to pursue. With the spreadsheet, they must breakdown how much they will make each month after taxes and figure out their budget expenses first for a month and then for a year. I have 37
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Revolutionary War Timeline Project
The Revolutionary War is an exciting topic for students to study. Have students work on their research and timeline skills while learning about the American Revolution. This packet has everything you need to assign a timeline project as a summative assessment for the American Revolution.
This file includes:
-teacher directions
-list of suggested events for timeline
-student directions
-student checklist
-rubric
-timeline template (in excel)
-example of student work
This product is aligned
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Cross-Curricular Road Trip Project
This Road Trip Project is a great cross-curricular project to try out in any classroom grades 6-12! It brings together Social Studies, Mathematics, Language Arts, and Science all in one!
Students will research and use Google Docs and Excel to completely plan out an educational road trip across the country!
Students will create a day-to-day itinerary with weather predictions, a map visual showing their journey, a letter to their principal explaining the educational value of the trip to requ
Grades:
6th - 12th
Stock Market Portfolio Tracking Spreadsheet
This document is an Excel spreadsheet which has already been formulated for students to use as part of a Stock Market unit. As students research and track their stocks, they will enter their data into the spreadsheet and their profit/loss will be automatically calculated along with a graph for students to analyze their results.
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4th - 8th
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Historical Figures Rubric
Looking for a quick and way to grade any type of presentation on historical figures? This is your answer. This rubric contains categories such as required elements, historical facts, questions, roles, and research. It is editable so you can easily take out items that don't apply to your class or add in items that are important to you and your standards. Made for a third grade Focus class but can be altered and applied to any grade level.
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1st - 5th
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Personal Finance Budget Spreadsheet - Editable with Functions Included
This is an editable copy of a Google Sheet Budget Spreadsheet. All the functions and calculations are included automatically within the document, so the students will not have to do anything but add their personal information to their copy of this document. This is a resource activity that can be applied in a Personal Finance, Business, or Economics Course. This spreadsheet includes both a yearly and monthly budget breakdown, where students can input a variety of data: IncomeSavings GoalsFixed
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9th - 12th
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Psychology Research - Survey Writing, Data Collection, Correlation Graphing
I teach Dual Enrollment Psychology 101. There's no better way to understand Psychology Research Methods than to conduct your own research. This project requires students to come up with a research question, guided survey questions, collect data, chart and graph that data, recognize correlation, then reflect on their results.While this project is designed to be used in Psychology, I supply you with DOCX files so that you can change the directions to suit ANY SUBJECT! For example, I was require
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Wax Museum Schedule | Living Museum Project | Wax Museum Project
This living wax museum project is by far one of my favorite things about teaching 3rd grade. Truth be told this wax museum project can be used from 2nd grade all the way until 6th grade. Students take on the role of someone else, they dress up like an important historical figure and then they put on a show for their families and entire school It is a memory that is worth creating for your students! This is just one piece of the project (the letter to send to parents), but you can grab the bundle
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Also included in:Â Living Wax Museum Project
The Best Budget Worksheet
What makes this budget worksheet the best? It will help your students learn and understand the difference between wants and needs. It will show them the difference between gross and net income. This budget worksheet will itemize things they probably have not considered before. They will be able to follow along and stay engaged with the lesson. All of my previous clients (students) stated this is what they want to learn and something they will always remember.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Life Plan Project | PBL Assignment | Word
This PBL assignment has students research and plan for their adult lives. It is intended to be used in high school courses. Students will research and respond to 50+ questions. They will organize their research into a PowerPoint presentation. This project is pursuant with Project-Based Learning strategies. It can complement personal finance, business, or life skills courses. Furthermore, this project can be adjusted to be completed along side traditional lesson planning or be a concluding, final
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Budgeting Project: Plan a dinner party!
In this project, your students are asked to throw a dinner party for themselves and 5 of their friends. For this party, they need to select recipes to serve and price out those ingredients based on a budget. If the Google Sheet works properly, it should add the numbers in each of those categories for them to give them a grand total.
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7th - 12th
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Financial Literacy - 100 years of Gas Prices
This original enrichment lesson (60-70 minutes) walks students through a deep dive of gas prices and transportation costs from the 1920s to the 2020s. It asks students to size down large data sets into decade-sized chunks using approximation skills and use basic equations in a Google Sheet to compare the cost numbers across three layers of depth: inflation, fuel efficiency, and driving habits.The folder contains1. Google Doc student worksheet (4 pg) with links to data and inflation calculators.2
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Colonial Era Spreadsheet
Includes 16 categories for each colonial region: New England, Middle, and Southern. Provides information that teachers and students can use to build on for the colonial era. Categories are: Colonies, Geography/Climate, Economy, Religion, Technology, Colony of Significance, Significance of colony named, Founders, Established or Founded, Purpose for settlement, Significant individuals, Immigrant groups, Conflicts encountered, self-government, self-government significance, slavery. Thank you in ad
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1st - 12th, Staff
AP Psychology Defense Mechanisms Video Project
Ever wanted to teach your students how to psychoanalyze someone? This project will serve your class by exploring a variety of psychological defense mechanisms in the Neo-Freudian vein. Your students will be assigned a defense mechanism, and will have to devise and plan a skit that will show their defense mechanism so that the class will be able to determine which defense mechanism is being displayed. The students will film themselves acting out their skit and the class will try to psychoanaly
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Budget Project
This project allows students to go through all the various things when creating a budget. Students will work through 2 tabs making 2 separate budgets. The first budget they complete is the typical American budget which can be based on either going to college or straight into the workforce. The other is based on what their dream job one day might be. The budget does all the math for them and has explicit directions throughout. Students will research different fixed costs they might have (i.e. mor
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11th - 12th
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Curated List of 200+ Criminal Cases for Forensic Science research
In my Forensic Science course, my students create a major case research report at the end of the semester. The instructions and rubric for this assignment are posted in my TPT storefront. For this assignment I created a list of cases - some famous, some lesser known - so that no two students have the same topic. There are suspects who are long since deceased, still imprisoned, some even exonerated and released. Over the years my list went from 35 cases to now 200. My list is now also organized i
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Not Grade Specific
Government Observation Project - Hours Log
Hours log accompanies Government Observation Project
Grades:
12th
Also included in:Â Government Observation Project
Farewell to Manzanar Tic Tac Toe Project
Students must select three activities from the tic tac toe board. There are activities for each learning style. There is something for everyone. They are also challenging activities that interest the students. I use this activity with my academically gifted students when we read Farewell to Manzanar.
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7th - 8th
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Excel Formula Stock Portfolio Blank
Stock Portfolio Blank Excel Worksheet with Formulas. This allows students to enter their Stock Market Project information directly onto the worksheet without having to complete confusing calculations.
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6th - 12th
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Financial Literacy and Budgeting Assignment (Mini Unit)
Attached is a mini-unit on financial literacy. Included are lessons/activities/links relating to credit cards and credit scores. Included is a budgeting assignment that asks students to create a realistic budget based on a career of their choice. They are to input expenses on an editable Google Sheet (which is embedded within the slides). The template contains all the necessary formulas for monthly/annual expenses. In the end, it will also calculate the total annual expenses and savings. There i
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7th - 12th
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World War II Deaths Excel Project Directions
Directions and data about World War II deaths in order to create an excel spreadsheet about WWII deaths and bar graph. Step by step instructions for students.
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â WWII Unit - Projects, Resources, and More
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