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Living On Your Own
Learners gain a realistic understanding of what is required for independent living. They begin by setting up a budget based on needs and lifestyle, and then use worksheets and a presentation to practice such skills as reading a rental...
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Summer Trip
Fourth graders search for information and directions to specific cities from their homes, figure cost of trip when given miles per gallon, distance, and cost per gallon of gas, develop outline budget for summer trip, and draw and label...
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European Vacation
Ninth graders work in groups of two or three to plan a trip through Europe. They present a storyboard for approval, outlining their graphics and display pages. They present their trip to the class using PowerPoint. This is displayed...
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Making a Spreadsheet
Students explore spreadsheet software. In this personal finance and computer technology lesson, students develop a vacation spreadsheet on the computer. Students represent hotel, food, transportation, and entertainment costs on a graph...
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Simple Strategies
Here is a fabulous lesson plan on problem solving strategies for your charges. In it, learners are presented with many excellent techniques they can use when faced with a multi-step math word problem. Some terrific blackline masters are...
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Virtual Vacation
Students select a foreign city, research the city using the Internet, and plan an eleven-day vacation to that city. This lesson is ideal for a social studies classroom and includes ideas for using iMovie, Excel, and MS Works or AppleWorks.
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Travel Plan Project
You can use a travel plan project in the classroom to learn about budgets, maps, time management, and more.
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1Word and Letter Match Puzzle
For this word and letter match worksheet, students match groups of 3 letters to words that contain each set. A reference web site is given for additional activities.