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Vocational education simulations for Gifted and Talented
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Prepare for a Job Interview and Application Language Skills
Are you supporting students in special education who are getting ready to apply for work? Do you need to prepare them for job interviews? Use role-playing to help your students land the jobs they want and need. Here is the resource that provides sample interview questions, strength and weakness surveys, and even appropriate attire questions. All done for you and ready to use right away!Discuss the language and social skills they will need to go beyond the job application and participate in a job
Grades:
9th - 12th, Adult Education
Gifted and Talented - Living on Your Own: Lessons in Financial Responsibility
Challenge your gifted and talented to play the “game of life” and survive financially during their first year in college. This concept-based unit allows students to “earn” an inheritance from a distant relative by repurposing items from a barn. With this “money,” students find affordable housing, transportation, furnishings, and other essentials. Then the “game of life begins with monthly reoccurring expenses, opportunities to buy additional necessities and/or wants, as well as challenges or o
Grades:
5th - 8th
Zombie Task Force Simulation for Model United Nations BUNDLE
Get students debating and engaged in Model UN with this fun Zombie Task Force simulation! This bundle includes everything you will need to host an effective Model UN simulation. The comprehensive Zombie Task Force Simulation Slides presentation will walk your students through the process from learning what it means to be a delegate to successfully writing a resolution. Resources and graphic organizers are provided for each step of the process. This is a great way to kick off your club or unit! S
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Gifted Crime Scene Investigation Activity The Case of the Missing Cash
This highly engaging crime scene investigation activity will have your students using their critical thinking skills as they critically read and analyze witness testimonies, view and evaluate evidence, and draw inferences to determine the motive and identity of the person guilty of robbing a bank. Higher-level thinking skills will be practiced while investigating the crime scene, as students form a hypothesis about who committed the crime, establish a motive, and then justify their hypothesis b
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Your First Job: Learning about Job Applications, Resumes & Interviewing
This lesson gives students an introduction to the basics of applying for their first job. This is perfect for a technology, business or social skills class, or a class that focuses on careers. Students learn about the opportunities that may be available to them for their first job and then learn how to apply for the job. They learn about completing a job application, creating a resume in Microsoft Word, and the basics of interviewing with an employer. Students work with a team to create the
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Create your own civilization based off of 'Weslandia'
Create your own civilization based off of the book 'Weslandia'. Students will use their social studies knowledge to create their own utopian society. Your students will have a blast taking knowledge that they have previously learned about and applying it to their new civilization! Their creativity will amaze you!!!!
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Curriculum:
CCSS Writing: W.2, W.4, W.5, W.6, W.8, W.10
Social Studies: geog
Grades:
4th - 12th
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Goods and Services Producers and Consumers Economics Activity Second Grade
Looking for an engaging early elementary economics lesson? Your students will gain a deep understanding of buyers and sellers (producers and consumers) in a community with this fun simulation activity. Your second or third grade social studies students will love creating their own good or service. This resource is suprisingly low-prep for how interactive it is. Simply print, cut, and go! You'll get teacher instructions, classroom procedures, printable student sheets, a student reflection sheet,
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
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Class Escape Problem Solving Game
Modeled after the popular "Escape" games in many cities around the country, this classroom version prompts students to work together as a class to solve puzzles, connect the clues, and crack the code! This is a great activity for the first week of school to encourage teamwork and help students get to know each other and the classroom. Your students will be totally engaged in this hands-on challenge!
You will need the following tools:
- tape
- color printer
- scissors or paper cutter
- white c
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Exploring Careers: Education & Training | Distance Learning
This career unit gives students an introduction to the education and training career cluster and what a career in this field would be like. This is perfect for a career, technology, CTE or business class. The included PowerPoint presentation can be used by the teacher for whole class instruction, or provided to the students electronically (or as a printout) for them to review individually. Students use close reading skills with a short informational passage to learn about the career field and
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Class Escape: Halloween Edition
My students loved my original Class Escape, so I created the HALLOWEEN EDITION when they begged me to make another! Modeled after the popular "Escape" games in many cities around the country, this classroom version prompts students to work together as a class to solve puzzles, connect the clues, and crack the code! Your students will be totally engaged in this hands-on, Halloween-themed challenge!
You will need the following tools:
- tape
- color printer (preferred) or regular printer
- scisso
Grades:
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Exploring Careers: Hospitality & Tourism | Distance Learning
This career unit gives students an introduction to the hospitality and tourism career cluster and what a career in this field would be like. This is perfect for a career, technology, CTE or business class. The included PowerPoint presentation can be used by the teacher for whole class instruction, or provided to the students electronically (or as a printout) for them to review individually. Students use close reading skills with a short informational passage to learn about the career field an
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Exploring Careers: Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources Career Cluster
This career unit gives students an introduction to the agriculture, food and natural resources career cluster and what a career in this field would be like. This is perfect for a career, technology, CTE or business class. The included PowerPoint presentation can be used by the teacher for whole class instruction, or provided to the students electronically (or as a printout) for them to review individually. Students use close reading skills with a short informational passage to learn about the
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Financial Literacy - Budgeting - Money Management: 14-Day MS-EXCEL Simulation
FINANCIAL LITERACY - BUDGETING - MONEY MANAGEMENT 14-Day MS-EXCEL VERSION SIMULATION – is a very comprehensive, exciting, and interactive computerized real world turn-key activity/simulation whereby students “Flip the Die” for their “Station in Life” and experience “The Real World” according to the roll of the die -- it is guaranteed to keep students “on their toes! This simulation can be used for years to come and in all disciplines — it never becomes obsolete. This version has been created
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Research & Build a House - Architectural Styles & Creators | Distance Learning
In this lesson, students learn more about architecture as they research the history of different architectural styles, and learn about the creators of those designs. The lesson starts with a whole class Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (editable) to view the styles and start discussion. Next, students choose one of the styles to research further and create a presentation with that information. Optionally, these may be presented to the class. In the next part of the assignment, they design a
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Exploring Careers: STEM Science, Technology, Engineering & Math
This career unit gives students an introduction to the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) career cluster and what a career in this field would be like. This is perfect for a career, technology, CTE or business class. The included PowerPoint presentation can be used by the teacher for whole class instruction, or provided to the students electronically (or as a printout) for them to review individually. Students use close reading skills with a short informational passage to learn
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Exploring Careers: Health Science | Distance Learning
This career unit gives students an introduction to the health science career cluster and what a career in this field would be like. This is perfect for a career, technology, CTE or business class. The included PowerPoint presentation can be used by the teacher for whole class instruction, or provided to the students electronically (or as a printout) for them to review individually. Students use close reading skills with a short informational passage to learn about the career field and answer
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Exploring Careers: Human Services | Distance Learning
This career unit gives students an introduction to the human services career cluster and what a career in this field would be like. This is perfect for a career, technology, CTE or business class. The included PowerPoint presentation can be used by the teacher for whole class instruction, or provided to the students electronically (or as a printout) for them to review individually. Students use close reading skills with a short informational passage to learn about the career field and answer
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Choose Your Adventure: Dystopia
Immerse your students in the world of Dystopian literature with this "Choose Your Adventure" activity! Students are inserted into the story as the protagonist and are given a series of choices that will determine their fate. There are 74 choices and 28 possible endings! They must navigate through social classes, a rebellion, totalitarian rule, and a dubious government. Use as a hook activity for a novel, a genre study, or to accompany another dystopian text!
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Credit Card Debt Simulation
Students will be given a scenario of a young professional who is in serious credit card debt. They will read the explanation about how the young adult got into debt, including how the financial burden has affected his life. Students are placed into groups and are given the young man’s job and income scenario, and must point him in the direction of getting out of debt in the least amount of time.
This activity is a simulation in my book, "You're Gonna Need a Bigger Wallet." The entire book's .p
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Stock Market Game - Interactive Activity to Purchase, Trade and Track Stocks
Economics by itself? Boring. Economics with a competition and prize involved? Now we're talking!I created this activity to enrich my Sixth Grade Social Studies unit on Economics. I begin by teaching about the stock market, going over vocab and practicing calculating stocks/broker's commision. If your students have a basic understanding of the stock market, then this is the perfect next step. The object is to have your students purchase stocks (while paying you - their broker - a 5% commiss
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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Defining Leadership & Creating Tomorrow's Leaders Today
In a democratic society, choosing effected leaders is an essential criterion for citizens. In this activity, students will explore leadership qualities that are essential for a strong leader, not only in the government, but also in all facets of life. Through understanding what makes a leader, students are then able to model those traits and become leaders themselves. Students will explore leadership through analyzing ambiguous information about major leaders throughout history. Using that limit
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Learning Disabilities Simulations- Social Emotional Learning for Students
Every classroom in the world is comprised of students who learn differently. Our students are surrounded by peers who have learning disabilities, speech disorders, attention deficits, and more! Are we teaching our kids about these differences? Are we equipping them to help their peers and show empathy towards them? Have we empowered those who learn differently?In this 4-part simulation, students will gain an understanding of how some kids learn, struggle, and feel during parts of their learni
Grades:
1st - 12th, Staff
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DRIVER EDUCATION - ROAD TRIP PROJECT
This is a project that can be used in your driver education classroom. It will require research of miles between points, time tables, gasoline mileage of a chosen vehicle and budgeting a certain amount of given moey for the entire ROAD TRIP ! Have fun.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Money Matters: A Real-World Simulation for Upper Elementary Students
A creative problem-solving unit that simulates real life. Students are faced with real-world decisions related to money management, budgeting, jobs, taxes and bills.Students are randomly assigned families and jobs. They then are presented with real-life situations and decisions that they must make (just as their parents do).Creative problem-solving, decision-making, Socratic seminar, and real-world dilemmas are incorporated into this unit.Printables: Everything you need is in this unit. It h
Grades:
4th - 6th
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