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Arctic Survival Activity (For Team-Building, Group Dynamics, and Personality)
This cooperative learning activity pits learners and their groups against survival experts to see if they can survive a plane crash in the arctic. Will they make more sound decisions individually, or as a group? How do groups reach consensus? What sort of identities, personalities, or traits tend to dominate group discussion or group activities? These questions and more lie underneath the surface of a classic and beloved classroom activity!These topics and more are broached in this product, whi
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Full Year of U.S. Government and Civics Essentials Bundle
Potato Baby Project
Explanation: Talking about Child Development with your students? Give them a fun activity where they get to see a glimpse of the responsibilities of caring for an infant!My students absolutely LOVE this project. When I first heard of this idea, I thought, "Really? I don't think they'll get excited about a potato." But after I tried it, let me tell you, I am FOR SURE doing this every semester. They are obsessed!Why not egg or flour babies? I chose not to do egg babies because I didn't want to har
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Bill Paying Activity
This is a simulated bill paying activity. With this purchase, the attached files in the zip folder include 3 PDFs from 3 different months of paying bills. Feel free to use a PDF editor to change the amounts, due dates, and methods of payment.The credit card and checking account numbers are not real and only used for students to practice. Steps of the entire activity:1. Teacher gives students paychecks 2. Students endorse their paycheck3. Students complete the deposit slip4. Students use the a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Checking Activity / Project w/ Video Instr. Personal Finance / Banking
This approximately 5 class day simulation (assumed 45 minute periods) will teach students all of the basics of managing a checking account with narrated VIDEO instructions for everything along the way (by me; 40+ minutes of video)! You can hand the files and video instructions (.mp4 video file) off to your students and they'll learn how to:- Write Checks- Make Deposits (and endorsements)- Update their check register- Reconcile their account- And as a bonus they'll learn how to work with a spread
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Disability Awareness Simulation
This activity is designed to teach high school students about various types of disabilities, as well as possible challenges associated with those disabilities. This activity requires students to complete some research about disabilities beforehand and then a teacher-led simulation activity. Students will record how they felt during the simulation and the reflect on how their perspective has changed regarding disabilities.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
House Buying Simulation -Financial Literacy & Economics-
Watch the teacher demo video: https://youtu.be/D-BVwLD2ERY Students learn how to buy a house in this realistic interactive simulation.In this project students find an apartment to rent and calculate rent payments over years.Then students find a house to buy and decide if/how to renovate it.They analyze equity gained over years and compare that to the savings if they rented.Curriculum designed by a professional team (teacher, data analyst, and mortgage officer).Simulation includes A scenario stud
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Basic Budget Planning for Kids or Independents
Managing money can be challenging, whether you are 5 or 55, but having a simple to use plan can make all the difference. Following a basic principle of applying money to categories and planning for everything that comes in to be used effectively to go out will keep you from overspending and creating debt. This plan has the main categories and some of the specifics, with blank lines for items that may be specific to your financial situation. It is also broken into an independent budget planning a
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
(Supplement) My Best Life Scenario Game - Automated Spreadsheet
My Best Life Scenario Game's automated spreadsheet removes much of the budget calculation hassle. This improves the speed and accuracy of the players, allowing the focus to be on decision making instead of tabulating. For each year, players will create a balanced budget, then simulated events will occur and they have to determine how to re-balance their budget. At the end of the game, players will have learned how to budget as well as gain insights into how purchasing decisions and unforeseeabl
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Packaging Proposal | Functions of Packaging
This is an engaging “maker” style project for the functions of packaging. It includes everything you need to teach the functions of packaging from an introduction to the concepts to a rubric for assessing learning!Download Includes:A “Marker Mosey” activity that incorporates movement while students are introduced to the concepts.A graphic organizer for students to record their understanding.A 20 slide presentation that guides the class through the project and includes TONS of pictures and videos
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Operation: Fashion Stylist (A Fashion History Culminating Project)
A culminating project for a 20th century fashion history unit of study. Students perform the job of "fashion stylist" for an authentic workplace scenario, completing the research, "shopping" for the wardrobe, then creating mood boards for their assignment. Activity can be posted in an LMS and completed digitally/virtually or can be printed and completed by hand. Both digital and "analog" instructions are included. Activity can be completed in class (five 50-minute class periods) or as homework.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Personal Checkbook Check Register Project
Great for independent or group work.... as review or assessment. Record an individual person's checks and deposits for May 20xx. Possible talking prompts for each day's event are provided for added topic depth or side work/extra credit.Packet includes: Events that involve checks, cash, auto deposits and drafts, and debit and credit cards. Solution provided. Check Register and 8 blank deposit slips and 21 blank numbered checks for students to customize with their names.Laminate instructions, che
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
MY BEST LIFE - Financial and Life Skills Simulation Game - Part 2 of 3
This is a partial version of MY BEST LIFE - Finance and Life Skills Simulation Game - Part 2 of 3 (Lessons 7 - 15).INTRODUCTIONWhat if you could live multiple lives retaining the hindsight and life lessons you learned along the way? Do you think you could come up with a “BEST” model of your life?That’s the power of My Best Life™! Students get the opportunity to live out life scenarios and see what happens. Along the way, they learn the things most of us did not learn until we were thrust out int
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Income, Expenses, and Choices - Real World Budgeting
This multi-period activity explores the relationship between finances and a person's decision-making in real world scenarios. Students take on a worker profile, create a budget, and make decisions based on their financial situations. Profiles are based on blue collar and white collar jobs. Students will need access to an internet enabled device. Illustrations licensed through Shutterstock.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Ethical Minutes Digital Student Book and Journal
Ethical Minutes Digital Student Book and Journal contains materials to reinforce ethics to students that can be interspersed throughout the year or course. Each character trait (11 traits) contains objectives, an introductory activity, definition of the trait as well as the benefits of the trait. There are a variety of activities and SCENARIOS for each trait. A journal of questions is at the end of each trait. The digital pdf student version provides space for students to key in their responses
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Ethical Minutes Teacher Resource Guide & Student Book/Journal Bundle
Stock Market Project
These are student instructions and handouts for a stock market unit.
Included:
Instructions on how to use Investopedia's FREE stock market game
A portfolio worksheet for students to track their stocks
A table for students to fill in when researching which stocks to purchase
The unit is intended to last at least 5 weeks and take up about two 45 minute class periods per week.
Lesson plans will need to be developed, and I recommend having at least one prior lesson on the history of the stock mar
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Foods 3: Emergency Food Business Plan
A business plan project for Distance Learning based on the current COVID-19 crisis. This project is for advanced culinary arts classes and it is designed as a final. It allows you to assign this via zoom. It covers:-zoom meetings-basic business design (type of design, business name, what you serve)-research on CDC and Health Department rules and regulations (links not included)-Emergency business plan for adjusting methods to maintain business during "stay-at-home" order-google slides presentati
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Financial Literacy: An Experiential Journey
This unit will take students on an experiential journey as they find their first career after finishing educational requirements, get that first paycheck, build their first budget (based on said paycheck), use that budget for two (hypothetical) months, learn about debt (the good, the bad, and the ugly) while reflecting on their experiences along the way!This product includes:1 set of 26 Google Slides that students complete throughout the unit "What to Expect" Teacher's guide broken down by slide
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Financial Literacy: An Experiential Journey w/Budget Bliss or Bust GameCards
This bundle combines the Google Slides & Docs as well as the GAME CARDS (printable PDF) to play Budget Bliss or Bust!This unit will take students on an experiential journey as they find their first career after finishing educational requirements, get that first paycheck, build their first budget (based on said paycheck), use that budget for two (hypothetical) months, learn about debt (the good, the bad, and the ugly) while reflecting on their experiences along the way!This product includes:1
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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