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8th grade family consumer sciences simulations
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
Design a New Toy Project
Students will use the Engineering Design Process to create a new toy. Simple worksheets that students work through to create the new toy. Takes 3 days: day 1 students are developing the toy with the design process, day 2 students are creating a poster that describes the toy with an illustration of the toy, day 3 students present their toy idea to the class.
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6th - 12th
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Lifestyle Economics Project Simulation worksheet - career, car, mortgage, bills
Lifestyle Economics Project - career, car loan, mortgage, monthly bills
Students must use the internet once they are assigned a career and given a salary to figure out (after taxes), a car and home they can afford while still paying the monthly bills
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8th - 12th
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Family Consumer Science (FACS) Class Final Project-Startup Food Truck/Restaurant
Family and Consumer Science (FACS) students act as entrepreneurs for a Simple Startup Food Truck or Restaurant. There are actually TWO project files in this resource. The Food Truck file is separate from the Restaurant file. This is a REAL WORLD PROJECT that is project-based learning (PBL) at its best! NO PREP! Send it easily through your LMS to all of your students!⭐This project is aligned with the national FCS educational standards. Makes a great FINAL project ⭐Student Competencies:Entre
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6th - 12th
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Sugar Lab: How Much SUGAR Is In That Beverage? Health Science, NO-PREP!
Do your health class, science, or PE students love to guzzle sugary sweet beverages and snack on junk food? Show them EXACTLY how much sugar they are ingesting when they eat those Fruit Loops and cookies or drink that Gatorade and soda in this interactive, zero-prep, customizable Sweet Science Sugar Lab. Your students will get hands-on experience converting grams of sugar from common foods and drinks into stackable sugar cubes. Students will have a FUN and eye-opening learning experience with th
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5th - 10th
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Personal Budget Project and Career Investigation
This personal budget project allows students to create a personal budget based off a chosen career's average annual salary. Students will get a real dose of reality as they try to make their monthly budget fit into their monthly income after taxes!
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8th - 12th
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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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Safety and Sanitation in the kitchen Escape Room
EDITABLE Escape room geared toward safety and sanitation in the kitchen! This download includes all task cards and student directions as well as a teacher guide. Font is "Chiller" that comes free with Microsoft PowerPoint or can be downloaded online for free. Note: This CANNOT BE USED as a google slide. The format only works in PowerPoint. Do not attempt to use with google slides.
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7th - 12th
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Students learn how to choose a health insurance plan through dynamic simulation
Watch the quick teacher demo video: https://youtu.be/EqL5-ZB1Xl0 This activity is perfect for financial literacy an economic students.This activity was designed by a professional team (teacher, health insurance analyst, data analyst)Students learn the details of 3 popular health insurance plan type:Coinsurance PlanCopayment PlanHigh Deductible PlanStudents learn how each plan type differs based on:Insurance PremiumsAnnual DeductiblesCoinsuranceCopaymentsOut of Pocket Spending LimitsStudents use
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7th - 12th
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Real-life Budget activity
This activity will be a guided class activity in which students choose their career from a list of careers and median salaries. The students will then use websites and given information to determine their school loan payments, buy a house, determine their mortgage, utilities, car payment, insurance and groceries/living expenses. The students will be able to complete a budget sheet and then a short 4 question reflection sheet from the activity. My students did this at the end of 8th grade math
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6th - 12th
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Budget Practice Scenarios Set revised 2023
Have your students practice basic family budgeting to address financial literacy standards with this 29 page packet. Students must read a scenario and interpret the financial information to create a monthly budget to determine the answer to a specific question regarding the budget. Fourteen scenario worksheets are presented with complete answer keys. This unique set can be used in many situations. They are perfect for formative and summative assessments. They can be used as whole group, individu
Grades:
7th - 12th
Finding Simple & Compound Interest - Car Activity
This is a quick, one page activity involving simple and compound interest. It presents a car and its price and offers four financing options. Students calculate the total to be repaid for each option. Great for comparing compound and simple interest or showing how length of a loan affects credit!Key is included. Discussion question page coming soon!TEKS: 8.12A, 8.12B, 8.12D, and 8.12E
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7th - 10th
C-Section Simulation Lab
Did you know 1 out of every 3 babies is born via c-section? This resource is a FUN hands-on learning experience for students to grasp the concept of what actually happens during a c-section. Students sign up for roles to play and use a simulation role play sheet to “perform” a Caesarean section. The simulation can be done in a health lab or classroom setting. The “expecting mothers” wear C-section aprons. Aprons include all the layers that are gone through in order to deliver a baby via C-sectio
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6th - 12th
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Skills for Work Board Game (Work Ethics)
Board game that requires students to determine what behavior is acceptable in the work place, through collaborative discussion of real life work scenarios. Land on the plus and move an extra square, once you explain your ethics behind moving. Game is interactive, fun, and uses real life scenarios.
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7th - 12th
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Weekend Project *RealCare Baby* Parenting Simulation
Weekend Project *RealCare Baby* Parenting Simulation
This packet includes everything you will need to provide students the opportunity to take the RealCare Baby home for the weekend and participate in a parenting simulation.
Including:
-Formal parent letter explaining the program
-Parent and Student agreement forms
-Paperwork for students to complete during their weekend experience
-Reflection paper guidelines and grading rubric
-Teacher resources for organizing and grading
If you prefer
Grades:
6th - 12th
Candy Germ Transmission
Need a fun way to teach how germs are spread? Candy Germ Transmission is a fun experiment that can work well with any age group. I use it for high school, but I have friends who have used it in elementary school as well.
The experiment uses two similar candies that are transferred between student pairs. Only a few students are "infected". By the end of the experiment your class can see how germs are spread both directly and indirectly.
Includes instructions, data collection sheet, and
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1st - 12th
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Spending Decisions Game and Reflection, Play Spent, Managing Budgeting Game
This digital resource accompanies the free online simulation, "Spent" (playspent.org), in which students are given a chance to make lifestyle choices including a job, housing and insurance. They are also faced with difficult daily challenges for which they must make decisions and attempt to make it through one month without going broke. This resource provides questions which align with the game and allow the students to think as they play or reflect afterward. There are two sets of questions fro
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7th - 12th
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Financial Literacy Checking Assignment (check writing)
This is an assignment to teach students how to write checks and balance a checkbook. It is an interactive Excel Spreadsheet and self scores if the student completes it on the computer.
There are two parts to the assignment. The first part has the students correctly fill out 8 checks based on prompts given to them. The 2nd part uses those 8 checks and other non-check transactions to teach them how to fill out and balance a check register.
Also included is a .pdf printable version of the ass
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6th - 12th, Adult 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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Business Ethics Hands-on creative PROJECT | exemplars grading | rubrics (PBL)
This 6-part PBL business ethics project is thoughtfully designed to deepen and reinforce understanding of business ethics, technical business writing, and conducting oneself professionally in a meeting. Project takes 6.5 - 8.5 hours. Experiential project utilizes creativity, analysis, & writing skills & includes: Part 1: Write a discussion post Part 2: Glean important info from a real ethics policy Part 3: Sketch wireframe idea & design it electronically Part 4: U
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8th - 12th
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Phone Sanitation Experiment
Are you teaching culinary classes and want to show how dirty phones are? I did so I created this activity! Using fresh bread, a phone, and a ziplock bag, and in a week you can create a nice visual of how truly unsanitary it is to have or use your phones in the kitchens. I have pictures of students' bread slices from this year to show what you could end up with.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Leavening Agents Experiment
Experiment activity that visually shows students the difference between yeast and baking soda as leavening agents in yeast breads vs. quick breads. Activity sheet and instructions included. Great for foods, culinary, or ProStart classes for a baking unit.
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6th - 12th
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Grocery Shopping & Money Practice
In my classroom, I use this activity with my students who need adapted materials during my “comparison shopping” units. This activity gives students the opportunity to practice shopping for items on a list, identifying various items in the grocery store, matching amounts of money to a number (with image support), and adding up the total cost.Please feel free to use these materials however they work best for you and your students!
Grades:
5th - 8th
Gray for a Day: Older Adulthood Simulation
Students learn about the older adulthood stage of the individual life cycle by participating in this simulation. There are four stations to rotate through after simulating issues with sight, hearing, touch, mobility/dexterity & smell. Once all stations are finished, students complete a reflection that can be printed or uploaded to Google Classroom.
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7th - 12th
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