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Grocery Shopping and Meal Planning on a Budget Project
Give your students a preview of "adulting" with this grocery shopping on a budget project. Includes option for 3-day meal plan/shopping project OR 5-day project. Also includes grading rubrics. What will students do?Students are asked to brainstorm and create a menu for 3/5 days (covering all the food groups each day), create their shopping list while looking up prices on a grocery shopping website or app of teachers choice (Walmart, peadpod.com, Instacart, or use your local grocery store) all wh
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7th - 12th
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Consumer Math: Road Trip Project
Students will plan a four-day trip to anywhere in the United States. Students will budget for all expenses: gas, hotel, restaurant (meals), and attraction fees. Rubric and presentation template provided.
Skills: budgeting; calculating gas mileage; presentation skills; percents; rounding decimals
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6th - 12th
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Health & Wellness Presentation Assignment
A student centred research project in which students work in groups to investigate and present wellness topics that affect them and their peers the most! Your students will love being able to choose their own issues, and then become the experts in the room.Designed for diverse learning environments - students can complete it in a teacher-led class or use included scaffolding for independent learning at home. Presentations can be completed in written or recorded video formats, depending on what y
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: THE HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS BUNDLE
Dream Vacation Math and Finance Project - Can Be Used For Distance Learning!
This project provides the opportunity for students to apply the Common Core practice of mathematical modeling to plan their own dream vacations, including choosing transportation, accommodations, food, and activities. It helps them learn to develop a budget, research various trip alternatives, and present the information to their classmates. It's amazing how quickly students realize that a limo to the airport, first class airplane ticket, 4-star hotel, and upscale restaurants may not quite be as
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6th - 12th
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BUNDLE Student Portfolio | Resume | Cover Letter | LinkedIn | Bio | References
Want to get students started with career readiness resources? This fully editable bundle introduces the major components for student portfolios. Everything you need to deliver a series of engaging career readiness lessons with slides, guided teacher notes (meaning you'll always know what to say and do), and interactive activities along with assignments and grading rubrics for creating a resume, cover letter, biography, LinkedIn profile, reference list (freebie) and professional emails (freebie)
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Travel Budget Project- Middle & High School/Special Education/ESL- SUB PLANS
This engaging travel research project requires no preparation and encourages students to explore the expenses associated with road trips. Students will be tasked with planning a 5-day/4-night trip to a destination that is within 8 hours of their current location. Students will be guided through the process of researching and determining the costs of various trip components, including accommodations, meals, fuel, and activities. They will also have the opportunity to make independent decisions ba
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6th - 12th
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Buying A House: Mortgage and Interest Rates Assignment
Engage students in understanding home mortgages, interest rates and more by having the students research and select a future home. Students really enjoy searching the housing market and finding out the costs of houses. This project helps students understand the reality buying a house, the effects of length of borrowing, interest rates, down payments and credit scores.
Links are provided to help students find homes. The worksheet and summary questions are easy to follow. Take advantage of
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9th - 12th
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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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Real World Detailed Budget Project
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Here I have created a real world budget project for students to figure out on their own how hard it is to create a budget and try to stay within a monthly budget! It really opens up students eyes as to what it takes to live and use money wisely.
Whats included:
-Real World Budget Project Calculation Sheet
-22 possible job situations (can be edited to add more and you may want to change incomes based on the area you live)
-Directions for students to follow step by
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Special Education Distance Learning Work Box Task Cupcake Vocational Job Skills
Let your students practice their work skills, even if they cannot attend their jobs during this unprecedented time. This practice task maintains their skills, and keeps them busy while they are distance learning. This work box vocational task will let your students practice assembling cupcakes and packaging them as well! The assembly task is designed as if your student works for “Callie’s Cakes”, a fictitious cake company I’ve invented. Each order form needs a base cupcake, frosting, and a toppi
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Special Education Work Box Bundle Cupcake Assembly Task
Adulting 101: Housing: Buying a House Project (Google Doc)
Purchasing a house is a big decision! Many factors impact the home-buying process. In this project, we look at location, home prices, interest rates and more with regard to how these factors impact a home purchase.
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6th - 12th
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Real World Project: Game of Life
The seven day unit allows students the opportunity to use math, reading, writing and problem solving skills to complete a real world project. Students will be given a career and a budget to buy groceries, pay for gas, buy a car, find a place to rent, and more. Students will also find out that life throws them speed bumps and will have to use money from their budget to pay for these unforeseen expenses. There are writing prompts to get students thinking about how these skills will apply to them a
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5th - 9th
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*Full Unit* Career Planning (10 lessons) - PDF + Fully Editable Google Drive
Embark on a journey of career exploration with our dynamic and immersive unit designed for mid-upper elementary, middle school, and high school students! This 10-lesson unit is not just informative but a whirlwind of fun, guaranteed to captivate minds and ignite passions. With a curriculum carefully crafted to span at least 14 blocks, including interactive activities, lively class discussions, captivating videos, and energizing group games, each session is a gateway to uncovering the secrets of
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5th - 11th
Get a Life Project - Economics/Personal Finance Final Project
In this multi-day project students will take a personality test, choose a career, look up housing options, and budget out their future lives! This is intended as a semester final project, but could also be used as and intro activity to an Economics class.
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9th - 12th
Project: Buying a Home
This is the project I end our Financial Literacy course with each year. After studying the factors that go into purchasing a house, students are given this PowerPoint document to lead them through their own simulation of finding and purchasing a home.
Students must decide what is important to them in purchasing a home, work within a provided budget, and find an actual home for sale that best fits their values.
This PowerPoint walks students through identifying the many key costs that purchasi
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Jobs & Careers Online Research Project - Differentiated Distance Learning
This 4-5 day project allows students to explore the impact of their interests and skills on their future career choices. Students use the website www.careerzone.ny.gov to take an interest survey that matches them with jobs and careers that use these skills and subjects. For this project, students explore these matches and pick one career to research fully. They will complete the organizer with all pertinent details about the career and then select a project choice from the differentiated options
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Decision Making Slideshow + Activities | Life Skills and Healthy Choices
Decision Making can be so stressful and anxiety provoking! This slideshow, notes and activity (3) bundle helps equip high school and middle school students with the life skills they need to make healthy life choices, big or small!Here you will find:* Lesson Plan* Teacher Overview* A 22 slide slideshow, with corresponding student note version (print + digital)* Activity #1: "6 Hats" principal, help making hard decisions* Activity #2: Class Song* Activity #3: Healthy Choices (color and discuss)Re
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6th - 12th
Microsoft Excel Fun Project Budgeting Personal Finance Lesson Plan | 1 Week Unit
Students learn to be “Ballin’ On A Budget” with this fun Excel Lesson Plan. Give students a crash course in budgeting, personal finance, making responsible choices, and using Microsoft Excel in this real-world activity.See the full teacher guide as a free preview to see the break-down and 5+ day lesson plan.There is a presentation with full speaker notes for the teacher introducing students to budgeting, expenses, needs/wants, taxes, etc. Students will follow along in their own Power Point copy
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9th - 12th
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European Travel Itinerary Project Cultural Geography History Budgeting Editable
The European Travel itinerary Project was created for my 9th grade Cultural Geography class, but it would probably work for a variety of different social studies or life skills classes. This project is fully editable, so you can modify it to fit the needs of your classroom and reflect the specific course you are teaching. The European Travel itinerary Project is designed so students can learn about the geography, culture, history, and political systems of a chosen country in a fun and engaging
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6th - 10th
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Budgeting For Food | Meal Planning Project
Food costs come up in the top 3 expenses on an average person's monthly budget, and therefore represents one of the most important areas to understand and plan for with regards to our finances. This is a perfect activity or Project-Based Learning (PBL) activity for a personal finance, financial literacy, or life skills class. Students will be asked to create a meal plan for a week, build a grocery list for all ingredients needed, shop for the ingredients in a grocery store or online grocery app,
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Needs vs Wants & Budgeting Unit | BUNDLE
Elementary Financial Literacy Bundle (Grade 3-6): Budget, Banking, Housing, Food
This bundle includes everything you need to introduce your elementary students in grades 3-6 to important financial literacy topics! They will create a household budget by choosing options for food, transportation, housing, clothing, etc. They will learn how a bank account works by playing a board game and keeping a running tally of their balance. They will learn about all the expenses of home ownership including mortgages and down payments. And they can make their own budget for their Chris
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3rd - 6th
l Haunted Colleges Research Project for the avid learner l College and Career
Looking for a fun, seasonal Halloween activity for your AVID class? This no-prep project has students reading two articles (with 25 haunted colleges), choosing a college to research, and creating/presenting a PowerPoint about what they have learned. In my AVID class, I have each student choose a college from the list and then become the expert on their haunted school. That way, all haunted colleges are represented. This is a fun activity for any AVID class - to look at both spooky college st
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6th - 12th
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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Making a Budget Gr7-9 Math:Decimals,Percents,Estimating,Rounding,Money
How to budget money is a skill that many students have never been taught and therefore many adults lack. This package contains 2 parts: Creating a Grocery Budget and a Monthly Budget for all Bills.
These challenges (as I like to call them) require students Grades 7-9 (or higher) to plan for a month's worth of grocery shopping and basic house bills that they will have when they are out on their own.
-It reinforces practical money skills and the budgeting process in a fun and engaging way
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7th - 9th
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