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Life skills 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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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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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
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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Travel Project Unit Plan-Perfect Homeschool Lesson for Coronavirus Quarantine
An extremely relevant and engaging project for students and so little work for you!
Works for anytime, but I've found it especially perfect for winding down the end of the school year or that tricky time between Thanksgiving and Winter Break. Students will be glued to their computers making the perfect dream vacation.
This project takes the student through selecting a travel destination, finding hotel and transportation information online, comparing reviews of hotels, activities and restauran
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5th - 12th
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Annual Budget Excel Workbook
This Excel workbook helps students plan and track their personal budgets. Students can track every dollar of income, saving, bills, and expenses. A debt snowball tracker is included to help students pay off credit card and student loan debts. The workbook also includes a sheet to track total net worth as well as a password log.
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Not Grade Specific
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Event Planner Excel Spreadsheet
This Event Planner Spreadsheet Template in Excel has 8 main tabs including:Event Budget (space for 15 categories and 144 expenses)Event Guest List Tracker (tracks contact information for up to 950 guests, invite and RSVP status, event attendance, requested meals, hotel accommodations, gifts, thank you cards etc.)Tables (guests are automatically populated in each table based on where they've been assigned in the Guest List Tracker)Venue Comparison (where you can compare venues you're considering)
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Not Grade Specific
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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Priority Matrix Excel Spreadsheet with Due Dates, Assign, and Durations Columns
This Priority Matrix Spreadsheet will help you:Prioritize your tasks based on urgency and importance.Record which tasks are completed.Stay motivated to complete all your tasks.This Urgent Important Matrix Template has a summary and chart so you can easily see your progress as well as the details. It's easy to use and fully-automated!There's space to indicate each task's due dates, the assigned to person and the duration. The tasks are automatically sorted by closest due date! There is also an ex
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Not Grade Specific
Personal Finance Mini Lesson Budget Project
Personal Finance Mini Unit and Budget Project - Students will learn about the benefits of creating a budget, practice budgeting using MS Excel, and finally apply their knowledge in a budget project.Very practical, engaging lesson with activities that allow students to create a budget based off of typical living expenses. Scaffolded lesson!3-5 DAY UNITTeacher Instructions with Objectives and Lesson Plans1 Article on Benefits of Budgeting2 Practice Budgets with MS Excel Worksheet1 Budget Project
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Personal Finance: Comparing Banks
Activity for students to explore and compare banks. Each student should choose at least 2 banks from the header to research. Research consists of items such as interest, fees charged, charges and loan products offered.
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9th - 12th
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Personal Finance Project
This is a 5-part personal finance project where students can work together or individually.Combines lessons in:insurance budgetinglease agreementsexcel/google sheets skillsTeaches students the real costs of moving out and living on their own while combining multiple topics learned throughout a personal finance/ financial literacy course.Looking for more personal finance activities? Click the links below!Comparison Shopping ActivityWriting a Check Digital ActivityTime Management SlideshowBudget S
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Personal Finance Activities Bundle
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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Personal Finance Budget Template
This Excel budget template teaches students how to create a budget. This is a great tool to use during a personal finance lesson and can be personalized for individual students. Students also can learn how to use Excel formulas. Check out more life skills products!College and Career Pathway ProjectSign up for my newsletter to receive FREEBIES!SIGN ME UP!Happy Teaching!Mrs. Luey
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Personal Finance Unit Bundle - Guest Speaker Notes, Budget Templates
168 Hours Schedule
Help your students realize how much time they truly have in a week and set their priorities. I created an excel of the 7-day week with every 30 minutes incremented, covering the entire 24 hour day. This side is for them to fill in with the things they have at those certain times each day. Whatever is leftover after they fill in their week, is free time. It is up to them to decide what they will do with it.I have also, another page, that is to be attached to the other side of the schedule, so
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8th - 12th
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Simple Monthly Budget
Here is a simple template for a monthly budget. Students can practice this essential life skill by filling in the template. They can choose their job or the instructor may create a scenario for their future including their job and their monthly income. Students must figure out how to make this number be enough to pay for all of their bills and meet their needs for the month. I have included the formulas in the chart so that when students input their numbers, the total will be affected. They may
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4th - 7th
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Stock Analysis Spreadsheet
This Spreadsheet can be used easily with Yahoo Finance which is something that is user friendly for a consumers ed class or Economics. I would recommend this to either 11th or 12th grade class. It also has an example using Apple as it was traded on the Nasdaq...Obviously if you want an example for your student you will need to update your example.
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11th - 12th
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Chore Chart
This is an excel chore chart. Pending on how you choose to do rewards for certain subjects you can use the numbers/half numbers as money goals, tokens, prizes, etc. There are 3 blank spaces at the top that you can use to write the name on the chart or whatever else you may have in mind. Use it for your interpretation.This was made with the intention that each square is filled in a graph style format so the child can watch how much money/rewards they earn.
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Homeschool
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Girl Scouts Bronze Award Hour Log Tracker
Made this "Girl Scouts Bronze Award Hour Log Tracker" for my niece. It automatically calculates hours and minutes (and decimal hours for calculating) when you enter a start and end time for each activity. The summary in the header will display a progress bar and display your status.There are 3 sheets of the same template for printing in color or black and white.
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Not Grade Specific
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☆ REAL LIFE BUDGET in 20s ☆ WITH RL PIVOTS
THIS PROJECT, "SCREAMS THE THEME" of "WHEN AM I GOING TO USE THIS!!!! The spreadsheet will allow students to automatically put in their life (mid 20s) and it will calculate the percentages, net income and savings. In addition, to the actual spreadsheet it comes with both directions and a rubric with pivots. Think of it as a virtual game of life. In addition, for added fun, students will be able to navigate random life challenges on a regular basis. This is the essences of problem/project
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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