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11th grade basic operations simulations
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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Grades:
6th - 12th
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CCSS:
SONAR Calculations and Graphing
In this classroom activity, students are guided through the calculations necessary to obtain ocean depth from SONAR data. Then they use data to complete a profile of the part of ocean floor from which the data came. Please note: this does not show all the parts of the ocean floor. Image and activity where adapted from Naval History STEM H.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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REAL WORLD LIFE SKILLS PERSONAL FINANCE MINI UNIT
· This Personal Finance mini unit is often described as having the biggest impact on students’ real-world understanding. · Often, these lessons are the first-time students have been asked to consider their relationship with money, their knowledge of how much goods and services cost, and their own values.· Students will examine income, expenses, and household budget in order to understand how their career salaries will be put to use in the real world. Knowing the different salary withholdings and
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â REAL WORLD LIFE SKILLS Personal Finance and Understand Income DIGITAL
Profit & Loss Lemonade Stand Roleplay Game (Supply & Demand Lessons too)
Teach Profit & Loss (and Supply & Demand) through a fun game that students will enjoy. Also included in this pack is a fun auction lesson to teach supply & demand. I wanted to teach my students about profit and loss and give them an experience learning how a business works before they created their own. I wanted them to learn:- How to plan/organize what they need to buy- Keep a profit/loss record (doing the math themselves)- About borrowing/repaying loans (with interest that grows ov
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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My Budget Project
This is a great end of year math project! You can give students a career with a realistic salary and challenge them to create a monthly budget. Each slide will need to depict a different monthly cost like rent, car payment, etc. This will give the students a good real life look into the cost of living. At the end of the slides, there is an example project for to show students.
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Grades:
8th - 11th
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Checking Account Simulation
Do you need a lesson to teach students how to balance a checkbook? A PowerPoint presentation is included instructs students on how to balance their own checkbook and then gives them some "real world" practice. The PowerPoint includes writing a check, using a debit card, and making deposits. Also included is the handouts that you will give students in order for them to participate in the simulation. One handout is a checkbook register and the other handout has blank checks that students will writ
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Concession Stand - A Full Unit Business Simulation
Concession Stand is a business simulation for grades 8 - 12. Students will open a business and use their math skills to complete order forms, update inventory, pay bills, keep a ledger, and open for days of sale. This project works with higher level Blooms Taxonomy and allows students to work together in groups.
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Grades:
8th - 12th
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Vocational Support- Calculating Gross Pay
Whether individuals participate in competitive employment or sheltered employment, they need to be able to calculate their pay. Individuals can be paid in a variety of ways: hourly, by piece, commission, or salary. For this resource, I have chosen to focus on hourly pay. In the next few weeks I will publish other resources with piece pay, commission and salary. I will also be publishing work that relates to deductions and net pay. This is a great transition activity and can also be tied to vocat
Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Vocational Support Bundle
2 WEEK CLASSROOM STOCK MARKET - Financial Literacy for most Grade levels!
A two week (with room for adding or taking away) activity simulating the stock market in your classroom! Students will interact with 8 different age-appropriate 'stocks':- Gold, Shell gas, McDonald's, Banana, Air Canada, Cineplex, Nike, GoogleStart each day with an exciting, hands-on, and real-world skills based 15-20 mins of students buying, selling, and trading in the classroom stock market. Students will be able to practice mental math of all basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplic
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Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Leasing a Car Simulation Activity
Perfect activity for a variety of classes. I include this in my Economics class as one of my many "real-life simulation activities". Can be used in math classes and life-skills classes. Internet access is needed for this activity.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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