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Alphabet Shopping
The act of making up a grocery shopping list can have a lot of learning built into it. Kids love to do "grown-up" tasks, and this simple instructional activity allows them to do just that. Learners make up a shopping list by combining...
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Shopping for Savings
Fourth graders calculate savings and identify the best value items from a list of products. They rotate through five studying stations, completing various math activities involving calculators and solving problems related to shopping...
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Shopping
Learners demonstrate how to count money through a simulated shopping experience. For this consumer math lesson, students read the book Just Shopping With Mom and count play money to illustrate how much the items in the book cost.
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Using the Grocery Store as an Instructional Place for Math
The grocery store can be a great place to reinforce math lessons and get new activity ideas.
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Take an Imaginary Shopping Trip With Your Students
Take your students on an imaginary shopping trip to practice math and other skills.
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A/B Shop!
In this shopping list worksheet, students record the prices of picture words on a shopping list and total the cost. Students write nine short answers.
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Purchasing Grocery Items
Buying groceries and using money is a must-have skill. Listed here are the steps and procedures needed to train a special needs individual to purchase items at the grocery store. They will use pretend money, a calculator, and images of...
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Plan Grocery List & Field Trip To Store
Student write a list of groceries to purchase at the store given a certain amount of money. They check to make sure they have not spent more money than what they have. Then the students get with a partner and compare their two...
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Comparison Shopping
Students practice developing budgets. In this financial awareness lesson, students read The Monster Money Book and list ways the characters saved money in the story. Students plan a budget and demonstrate how to look for bargains when...
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Fruit Shopping
For this nutrition worksheet, students learn to recognize and count out fruit on a pretend shopping trip. Students color 5 different fruits the appropriate colors and count out and glue the fruit in the paper bag according to what is on...
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Making a Grocery List
Students make a list and decode words that are related to grocery shopping. In this grocery shopping lesson plan, students discuss what you do at the grocery store.
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Beginning Practical Writing: Grocery List
In this writing prompt activity, students are asked to write a grocery list. Students write a short list of 10 items to buy when grocery shopping.
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Settler's Shopping List
Students browse through catalogs from the 1890's and 1900's and make a list of items needed for a year in the wilderness.
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The Price Is Right - Grocery Store Prices
Eighth graders use the unit price to compare which local grocery store has the best prices. Assign students to work with a partner and a role. One person is the recorder and the other is the mathematician.
Council for Economic Education
Sand Art Brownies
Which is better, Coke or Pepsi? Pupils analyze the concept of substitute goods as they investigate the choice to purchase alternate products for better prices. Fun and practical, the engaging shopping exercise helps savvy scholars get...
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Bake Sale
Here is a project that instructs young bakers to calculate the ingredients needed for a cookie bake sale. The catch is that the ingredients for 32 cookies is given; however, pupils must figure out the amounts needed for 12 and 60...
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Clipping Coupons
Students explore the use of coupons to promote cost saving and help families remain within their monthly budget. In groups students create a shopping list using coupons provided by the teacher. They record the actual cost of the item as...
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Grocery Shopping
Students build a functional vocabulary. In this ESL lesson, students watch a video that incorporates a lesson using "do" and "does" while grocery shopping. Students engage in a listening exercise where they listen for specific answers...
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Supermarket Smarts
Students examine how a consumer can make informed choices. They visit stores with a prepared shopping list, record the prices on a spreadsheet, create graphs, and create a Powerpoint presentation comparing the total cost of stores and a...
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Grocery Store Field Study
Pupils visit a local grocery store (not a community market) to gather information about where some commonly eaten produce items come from. Once they have collected this information, locate the countries of origin on a map and research...
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A/B Shopping List
In this math activity, students match the item on the shopping list with the price listed in each picture and then fill in the price on the list.
Food a Fact of Life
Feel the Rub
Cheesy scones, rock cakes, and scone-based pizza are featured in this exercise that focuses on shaping rubbed-in dough. The 13-page packet includes step-by-step directions, shopping and equipment lists, images, and worksheets.
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Healthy Snacking: Grades 9-12
Snacks—even the word can conger up a hunger. Rapidly growing teens, especially, rely on snacks to get them from one meal to the next. After reading a series of articles about nutrition and healthy snack choices, pupils fill out a report...
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What's Cooking? It Starts with a Plan and a List
Students create a meal plan for their family. In this adult health science lesson, students discuss the benefits of using a shopping list. They explain how these methods can help them save time and make healthy meals.