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Free life skills simulations
FREEBIE Practice Job Application
Hello! I teach high school special education. My students have moderate to severe disabilities and they need daily practice in functional skills.
This practice job application provides plenty of room for them to
write in the spaces, while giving them daily practice in recalling
and writing their personal information. I hope your students enjoy this and improve their skills as much as my students have!
Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Personal Finance, Career, & Life Skills Simulation Game (Teen & Adult) - Sample
My Best Life™ – Creating the best version of You
Financial Scenario Planning Game
INTRODUCTION
What 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 didn’t learn until we were thrust out into the world. We made tho
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Personal Finance Car Buying Project
This project is great for use in any principles of business, personal finance, or other business class. In this project students will work at their own pace as they to go through all the steps necessary to make an informed car buying decision. This project uses the Internet and familiarizes students with sites like Kelly Blue Book, BankRate.com, and insurance websites. Students will be guided through selecting a car, comparing prices, finding what other consumers are paying for the car, finding
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Financial Literacy: Understanding the Stock Market - 3 Activities! - Grades 3-5
3 activities that help students understand the stock market! No prior knowledge needed!
The stock market is very complex, but is an essential life skill. This file contains 1 introductory page that briefly defines a stock market and 3 introductory activities. The activities are watered-down simulations of buying and selling stock. The activities introduce students to stock price changes, profit, stock brokers, and commission. The activities are very student-friendly and engaging and are me
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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2020 Income Tax Activity 1040, W-2, W-4, tax tables
This assignment will prepare students to file their own federal income taxes on a standard 1040. Students will be given a real life scenario with information needed to complete a W-4. I have included a W-4 form for them to fill out, a W-2, the relevant tax tables, and a 1040.
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
FREE Setting the Table Life Skill/ADL Boom Cards
Help your students practice the life skill of setting the table by dragging the items to their proper locations through interactive boom cards! Boom cards are great for teletherapy/distance learning AND for in-person sessions! You can use this activity to model appropriate location and practice setting the table. You can also work on identifying items by name or function (e.g., “We need something we can drink from.”). You can also target following directions with prepositions by providing verbal
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Not Grade Specific
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Financial Literacy: Understanding the Stock Market - 3 Activities! - Grades 6-Up
3 activities that help students understand the stock market! No prior knowledge needed!
The stock market is very complex, but is an essential life skill. This file contains 1 introductory page that briefly defines a stock market and 3 introductory activities. The activities are watered-down simulations of buying and selling stock. The activities introduce students to stock price changes, profit, stock brokers, and commission. The activities are very student-friendly and engaging and are meant t
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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FREE Pretend Play Sugar Cookie Recipe Game Boom Cards for Speech Therapy
This 37-card Boom Learning deck is a step-by-step, pretend play guide in baking sprinkle sugar cookies, perfect for distance learning and speech teletherapy. Students get to have a language-rich experience while having fun! It aims to target speech and language skills while creating opportunities for communication. These skills include:Vocabulary and Concepts - ingredients, kitchen tools, action words, adjectives, quantitative conceptsExpressive Language - requesting, describing actionsFollowing
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Not Grade Specific
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Checkbook Register Project
Teach kids the importance of keeping a balanced bank account by making their grade depend on it! For the duration of my personal financial literacy unit, everything (going to the restroom, borrowing supplies, etc.) costs kids money, and they can earn money, too! If their account is in the negative at the end of the unit, they receive a failing test grade.
Students learn the value of keeping up with their money, budgeting, and not being frivolous. You'll also likely notice your classes' behavio
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9th - 12th
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Paycheck / Payroll Simulation -- Financial Literacy
This lesson includes a Skills Review for decimals and determining elapsed time, a 1 week scenario listing times worked by the employee, guided questions for determining deductions, a blank time card to be filled out by student, and a wage bracket chart for federal tax withholding.
Students are often surprised to learn the difference between gross pay and net pay.
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Grades:
10th - 12th, Adult Education
Practice Interview Questions and Activity
Are you looking to help prepare your students for a job? These interview questions will teach them real life skills and keep them engaged! This is such a fun yet functional activity to do with your students to help prepare them for the real world! I hope you enjoy! This activity includes:15 Practice Interview Questions30 different job cards
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Life Skills Bundle (Recipe Book, Budgeting, Writing Checks, etc.)
Social Conflicts / Scenarios
10 social conflicts/scenariosYou can ask students to...- Identify the problem- Identify emotions related to the problem - "What could you do in this situation?"
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Learning Table Manners (Group role-play activity)
Good for social skills groups or feeding groups, or just in general teaching children about table manners and what is expected/unexpected at the table. Students are to role-play "unexpected" behaviors and discuss what is happening, how they feel (eg. uncomfortable, disgusted), and what to do instead.
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Grades:
K - 7th
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FREE PREVIEW "Culturally Proficient" and "Student-Centered" Classroom Guide
FINALLY A 134-PAGE "REAL WORLD LIFE SKILLS" BLUEPRINT GUIDE TO INTEGRATE A "CULTURALLY PROFICIENT, STUDENT-CENTERED AND RESTORATIVE" CLASSROOM.*****ALL COMMON CORE ALIGNED*****https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/REAL-WORLD-LIFE-SKILLS-Managing-the-Classroom-Guide-for-teachers-4078712Eva Foxwell’s twenty years of business excellence has helped her create this curriculum guide that named her a Delaware Superstar Education Winner and a Teen Ink Magazine Educator of the Year. The Career Read
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K - 12th
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Insurance Game
This realistic insurance game may be one of the best ways for students to understand how insurance works. Give a brief overview of car insurance, then play this game, allowing students to participate in paying monthly auto insurance premiums, experiencing a "month" of risk (only fender-benders in this game!) and then ultimately explore what happens to money paid for premiums. This will be a great activity to facilitate questions. A few are listed at the bottom but your students will surely think
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Editable Guest Check for Lifeskills math
Here is a editable guest check. This is great for students practicing real life math! This can be used for life skills, menu/restaurant math, exit tickets, and so much more! This product has spots for you to type in various foods that are on the ticket. If you would like to see other products like this, check out my store!
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Not Grade Specific
Personal Budget Worksheet
Worksheet for careers research that works in reverse order. Students estimate amounts in each category to determine how much they will then need to earn each month to meet their needs.
Easily editable Word document, so you can change the estimate amounts to better reflect the costs in your community.
Useful for careers classes and college and university counseling.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Grocery Shopping Visual Aid
The "Grocery Life Skills and Vocational Training Visual Aid," is a helpful tool for educators focusing on special education and lower grade levels. This visual aid is designed to support teachers in creating practical and engaging learning experiences for students. It contains over 100 pictures of real grocery items.Key Features:Life Skills Integration: Easily incorporate essential life skills into your lessons, allowing students to practice tasks like shopping, making lists, and following instr
Grades:
PreK - K
Independent Living Skills Scenarios- Money Management and Cost of Living
PART 1 IN MY INDEPENDENT LIVING SKILLS ACTIVITIES!! Independent Living Skills activities including calculating wages from hourly salary and calculating cost of living.This download includes the following:IN THE NIK OF TIME Cover Page (1 page)How To Use (1 page)Independent Living Skills Scenarios- Money Management (2 pages)Independent Living Skills- Cost of Living (1 page)Independent Living Skills Scenarios- Money Management Answer Key (2 pages)In completing the Independent Living Skills Scenario
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6th - 12th
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Conversation Carry On
This is a simple template used to teach conversational discourse skills - students practice dialogue using a question-response-comment format, then create a comic strip with their words to see the conversation in action! This addresses pragmatic language issues and social skills, is effective with children with Autism or Asperger's.
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PreK - 12th
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Professional Greeting Practice
This activity was originally created for the preparation for college and career high school English Language Learning (ELL/ESL) class! After introducing a lesson and demonstration on appropriate professional greetings and professional handshakes, you are set to hand out the Professional Greeting Practice; that requires students to receive signatures from their table mates (Group Practice), a chance to walk about the classroom; practicing their professional greetings with their classmates (Class
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Not Grade Specific
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Money Stations Game
Money - The Magical Green Paper is an exciting game designed to teach kids ages 8-12 how to save and spend money. It is a great teaching tool and could work great in your classroom. The main object of the game for the kids is to get the most money at the end and to be able to buy the most stuff.
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3rd - 6th
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Life Skills Special Education Activities Car Accident Simulation
Driving situations can be difficult and daunting for teens with disabilities. No one wants to ever be in a car accident, but it is important that students know what to do if it occurs. This set of slides simulates the events of a car accident and makes students think about important decisions they have to make. There are 22 slides with drag and drop activities and real world questioning. This product was made with high school life skills special education in mind. I hope this product can help yo
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Kind Coin App | US Currency Education | PBIS System - Free Demo Version 1.2.1
Welcome to Kind Coin! This app was built to help students gain an understanding of US currencies as well as help teachers with positive behavior incentives. Features: - Keep track of virtual/pretend currency on Kind Coin for each student and group- Learn about the values of each US currency - Learn to convert smaller denominations into higher, and vice versa - Use the app as a positive behavior incentive which can translate to prizes or anything else positive in the classroom- Multiple profiles
Grades:
PreK - 6th
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