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6th grade family consumer sciences simulations
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Babysitting Business Cards and Interview Questions
Students will get to design their own babysitting business cards and talk answer possibly interview questions.
The 8 interview questions will have students thinking about tough situations that could come up during a babysitting job.
Questions are formatted two ways, as task cards and a worksheet.
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Grades:
6th - 10th
Classroom Cash
In my classroom, I use classroom cash as part of a classroom economy. My 7th grade classes are focused on financial literacy and career exploration, and the introduction of a classroom economy has boosted student engagement by miles. In another product in my shop, you will find resources for implementing your own classroom economy for upper elementary and middle grades. I prefer to print my classroom cash on a specific bright colored paper so that students are less likely to counterfeit and it’s
Grades:
5th - 8th
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
Check It Out ~ A mock checking mini unit!
Your students will gain real world knowledge and understanding when they participate in the "Check It Out" mini unit! Included in this download is an introductory activity, mock checking account with checks, deposit slips, and check register, as well as an assessment. I have used this mini unit for 11 years and it has always been a success! Enjoy!
Grades:
6th - 10th
Vacation Activity - Math Review (Great for State Testing Review!)
This activity requires students to think critically while using addition, subtraction, and multiplication while on "Vacation" together. I use this activity just before spring break each year for two reasons: 1) It makes a great test review just before state testing. 2) It gives students an appreciation for the sacrifices parents make to take spring break trips. The kids LOVE this activity. It's fun for me too!
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2nd - 6th
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Reflecting on Responsibility: Middle School Video Link and Activities
"Reflecting on Responsibility" includes a video and the speaker shares a personal experience when she failed to take responsibility. The video also includes ways that responsibility can impact life. The script of the video is included as well as the video is available in closed caption. There are seven activities/assignments that focus on the character trait of responsibility as well as a key for them. Activities/assignments can be completed by individuals or used in small student groups. This
Grades:
5th - 8th
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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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Life Skills: Bagging Groceries File Folder Game
Bagging groceries at the grocery store could be difficult for someone who has never done so. I use the activity in my special education classroom as a life skills activity. I use this activity as a folder game, but you can also use this as a center.
Folder Game: (Recommended)
- Cut out all pieces in this download
- Place both bag (not cold and cold) on a manilla folder and laminate.
- Laminate food items separately.
- Place Velcro on back of all food items and within the Not cold and Cold bag
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Market Day in Zimbabwe: An Economic Exercise
This packet contains everything you need to show your students the principles of supply and demand, trading, and bartering.
Cards included allow your students to be foreign buyers, miners, farmers, or ranchers. Each card has a sell/trade list and a need to buy list as well. Foreign buyers will enter the game with money to spend. Locals will either export their goods to those buyers, or trade with other locals for their supplies and food.
Students will set their own values for their goods and
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3rd - 8th
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How Much Does it Cost to Live
This simulation will teach kids what it will cost to live in their area of the world. It includes a Word document that guides them through finding the costs of all of the things we spend money on such as food, clothing, housing, transportation, etc. It also has an Excel spreadsheet set up with formulas already entered so that students can enter their findings and see what their monthly budget would be, their needed yearly gross salary for that budget as well as their needed hourly wage. The simu
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5th - 12th
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Be a Barista!
Students work as a group to create a coffee shop. Each "group" has a job and function within the shop. Demonstrates kitchen safety, hospitality, and nutrition skills.
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4th - 8th
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The "Real World" Budget Project
This is a project that has your students figure out how they would survive in the "real world." They must find a place to live, budget food and transportation costs, and more!
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Interview Questions - Introductory activity
This introductory activity is great for 6-9th grade students that are new to interviewing. Lesson is for 1, 50 minute class but can be expanded to fit more, or can be shortened to a classroom discussion. Lesson plan with standards and printable hand out or upload page available.
Grades:
6th - 9th
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