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Life skills projects for Microsoft Word
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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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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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
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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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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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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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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Infant Growth and Development Design a Toy Project
Students are first asked to conduct a short webquest to go "shopping" for infant development toys. Then, they are asked to create an original toy, or prototype, for a baby age 0-12 months. Write-up questions and internet links are outlined in the project. Also, assessment and evaluation rubrics are included.
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10th - 12th
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Christmas Special Education Work Box Cupcake Assembly Task
This 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. I used to use pre-made cupcake clip art in the past, but my students just never seemed interested in assembling them. After I started creating the most juicy-mouth-watering seasonal cupcakes I could, my students were begging to complete task after task, and wondered when the next
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Special Education Work Box Bundle Cupcake Assembly Task
Senior Reflections - Thank you letter and Freshmen Survival Guide
This is a project that can be given to any all seniors class. It has two parts meant to help the seniors thank those who have helped them and those who will follow in their footsteps. The first part is thank you letter two a coach, teacher, etc. that positively impacted their lives during high school. Students are given instructions that include the knowledge that you may read the letter. The second part is a freshmen survival guide that they will create. The seniors will take what they know and
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12th
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Roommate Roulette Project - Adult Living Housing and Conflict Resolution
Congratulations! It’s time to do a simulation where they move out on their own and their life depends on the luck of the draw. They will draw out their monthly rental allowance (Cards Attached) and their future roommate’s name. They will also be drawing out a conflict scenario written by THEIR CLASSMATES that they must solve.Living away from home is the first step in the launching phase of the family life cycle and one where tons of emotions are at play. They will probably feel stressed out, hop
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Interior Design Dream Home Project
This is the final project for a high school interior design course. This project included the instructions, planning sheets, and a grading sheet. The project includes finding a floor plan online, furnishing, and planning the interior according to the elements & principles of design, traffic flow, principles of lighting, color schemes, window treatments, etc.
This is a fun project for students but will take them a significant amount of time.
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9th - 12th
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Special Education Work Box Halloween Cupcake Assembly Task
This vocational task will let your student’s 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. I used to use pre-made cupcake clip art in the past, but my students just never seemed interested in assembling them. After I started creating the most juicy-mouth-watering seasonal cupcakes I could, my students were begging to complete task after task, and wondered when the next
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Special Education Work Box Bundle Cupcake Assembly Task
Home Economics/Foods and Nutrition Menu/Meal Planning Project
This is a seven page project which allows students to organize, plan and budget an entire 3 course meal plus a beverage. This is a great hands on project for Grade 7-12. Included is a typed up letter to parents, initial meal planning sheet (covers allergies and food intolerances), self-assessment, guest comment card and assessment, and the 6 step project nicely laid out to ensure full organization. It ensures students covers all the tools they will need, terms to research such as "sauté" and
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Family Studies / Health - Canada's Food Guide 2019 Web-Quest. (1-2 Classes.)
This is an introductory assignment that will familiarize students with the current version of Canada's Food Guide. All questions are taken directly from the Food Guide website and the link to the site is at the top of the assignment handout. By completing this activity students will examine and record strategies to promote healthy food choices, healthy meal preparation, and healthy food culture.Assignment description / handout included.Rubric included. (NS Family Studies Curriculum.)
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6th - 9th
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Bank Account Project
Since my Budget Project has been very popular on TPT, I decided to also add my Bank Account Project!!
In this project, students will learn how to balance a checkbook, learn about debt/savings, learn how to write checks, research basic living expenses, work in a group, and best of all relate real life situations to math!
This is a great long term project for your class! Students should be put into groups or 3 or 4 students and they will be roommates. Each student will roll a dice to see what
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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THE GET A LIFE PROJECT
THE GET A LIFE PROJECT is one I developed for our 8th graders, but it can be used in high school too. It is a series of short research projects designed to prepare students after high school to make some major life choices: COLLEGE, A JOB, A HOUSE OR APARTMENT, A CAR, FURNISHINGS AND A BUDGET, AND A VACATION.
Students learn how to make these decisions based on their interests, abilities, and budget. They use popular web sites such as collegeboard.com, careerbuilder.com, cars.com, mlsonline.co
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Mock Marriage Project
This project gives high school students the opportunity to role play several aspects of married life.
This is a rather involved assignment that involves many aspects of married life including financial and family considerations.
It can be presented as an oral or as a written presentation or as a combination of both of these.
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10th - 12th
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6th Grade Leadership Curriculum
Teaching a middle school leadership class?? Running out of resources? This is my created curriculum for a middle school leadership course! This is filled with SEL lessons, videos, organization techniques, leadership activities along with entrepreneur projects. Students will be public speaking, keeping up with a planner, creating presentations, and even creating their own SharkTank product. This is a years worth of curriculum! Take what you need!
Grades:
6th - 8th
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