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This is a worksheet packet that teaches students the choices involved when renting an apartment. In this packet, the students have to calculate their monthy income based on their listed weekly income. They will also figure out the cost of living in 5 different apartment choices based on rent, transportation, utilities, and expenses. The apartment choices are included with this packet, as well! They will complete two worksheets (A and B) that are included with this purchase. Worksheet A is a mat

This is a simple transition assessment for special education students who are non-readers. This assessment deals with future jobs for our high school and secondary students that will be going off in the workforce or continuing on with future training. The options include: cleaning/janitorial dutiesfolding/laundrysorting clothes/organizinggrocery store bagger/shelf stockergardening/planting/landscapecooking/food preparationStudents should circle or make a mark/checkmark on each job that they like

This is a family vacation budgeting project that was created for a Consumer Math class, but it can be used for all math classes. This project allows students to work in groups while researching various travel sites on the internet. This project also teaches students about time zones, the current cost of gas and plane tickets, and the costs of dining out on vacation vs grocery shopping and cooking. It also touches on the costs of entertainment while on vacation. This project also allows for a dis

This is an activity that gives students the chance to use their creativity to create a children's book about integers!! This packet includes a detailed rubric broken down into sections for easy teacher grading. This packet also includes an original children's book example about integers that can be used to teach your students about integers before they are ready to make their book! At the end of the book, there are eight problems for the students to try with an answer key for them to check their

This is an entertaining and enjoyable project where the students get to design a neighborhood of their own! It allows them to use their creativity all while practicing mathematical skills in the areas of perimeter, area, and circumference. Included in this project packet are detailed instructions, a grading rubric where the points for each section are broken down with a place for teacher's comments, along with a formula page for review and reference! This is a 100 point project!

This is an activity that teaches students about ratios and how to write them and read them! In this activity, the students will survey their classmates regarding their likes and interests in order to learn about a ratio and what it means. Each question has 2 choices and they must give an answer for one or the other. For example: Which type of gum do you prefer, Orbit or Stride? There are 15 questions for each student to ask each other. There are printable ratio notes, a question sheet, a recordi

This is a fun and engaging activity for your students to complete while learning about inequalities. This teaches them how this concept applies to the real world and how inequality words are used in real life! The students will learn inequality phrases such as greater than, less than, at most..just to name a few. There are 9 inequality phrases introduced. They must then write a realistic inequality story using the words presented while following the rubric. It allows them to be creative!! Includ

Idioms can be extremely difficult for students to understand, especially those students with special needs! Many of my students with Autism take idioms literally and need further explanation as to what the phrases mean. Included in this packet: * Worksheet with over 30 idioms where the students are to write what they think the meaning is, the true definition provided by the teacher, and a space to write a sentence using the idiom correctly **Answer key with the meaning of the all of the listed i

This is an excellent resource for students who will take part in the planning of their IEP transition goals or for a student getting ready to graduate from high school. This is a packet that includes 5 steps in which the students will fill out themselves. Step 1- (2 pages)Personal Information including plans for the future, activities they participate in at school, job information, driver's license information..just to name a few. Step 2-Dreams! The student will fill out information on their dre

This is a social story designed for students with Autism about someone having surgery. When a student or a teacher is going to have surgery and might be out of school, this is a nice way to prepare them about the change.

This is a sheet that is passed out at the beginning of each school year to my Consumer Math classes. It explains the procedures for the year in class such as: the student's "job" for the year the rent that is due for living at their "desk", cost of rent, explanation of taxes, mention of balancing checkbooks, extra duties for pay, and others.. **There is also a beginning of the year survey that can be given to assess the student's knowledge of Consumer Math **This sheet can be given multiple time

This worksheet focuses on the concept of buying products on layaway. It describes what it means for something to be put away on layway, asks students to calculate the down payments needed based on a given percentage, and also asks the students what the remainder due would be on the product they are purchasing. This worksheet includes practice with percentages, decimals, fractions, and subtraction. This is an excellent worksheet to prepare for the holidays, however, it can be mentioned that consu

This sheet gives the students an overview of what a ratio is AND an explanation of how to write a ratio in 3 different ways! This activity gives the students a chance to survey their classmates regarding pets, siblings, and buying vs. packing lunch(just to name a few!) This activity would be a great whole class activity that the teacher could lead OR the students could interview individual students in the class to answer the questions provided on the worksheet. This activity includes 10 ratio qu

It's that time of year, tax time!! This is a lesson on paying taxes. There are questions such as when are taxes due each year and name two different ways you can pay taxes (online and through the mail). The students are given two different people who have the same paycheck, but get different taxes withheld each paycheck. The students must figure out the take-home pay of each person/family. One person is single and one person has a wife and three kids. There are also discussion questions at the

This is a daily warm-up activity that you can complete with your students in many different subject areas. It touches on calendar, weather, birthdays, phone numbers, time and elapsed time, good parts of the day, and what to look forward to after school. It always includes holidays,a weekend discussion topic and the number of days of school the students are currently on and how many are left. This can be done at the elementary level or with students with special needs. I put these in my students

This is a packet to be used with elemetary aged students or with students with special needs. This can also be used in a communication class or a speech therapy setting. This packet includes: 3 worksheets 1 writing the letter of the matching word and situation (words) (middle) 1 matching (pictures and situations) (low) (The above are the same situations, but one with words matching and one with picture matching.) 1 writing the emotion name and coming up with a situation (high) (Worksheets can be

This is an activity that gives students the opportunity to use a newspaper to locate real-world decimals. It give students practice in rounding decimals to tenths, hundredths, thousandths, and ten thousandths. It also involves practice in lining up decimal points to add numbers with decimals together. Since this activity involves cutting and pasting, fine motor skills are also touched upon. This activity can be used in a special needs classroom or at the elementary level. There are suggestions

This is behavior incentive chart that is student-led where there is a "leader" assigned each week to be the judge to place green and red X's next to each student's name at the end of a subject/period. The teacher is the ultimate "judge," however, this is a way for all students to recognize each other's behavior (both good and behavior that needs to be improved upon...) This also teaches students to be honest and fair. It holds students accountable for their behavior. There is specific criteria f

This is a daily warm-up activity that can be completed at the beginning of a class for elementary students or students with special needs that need extra practice with daily living skills.. (name, address, phone number..) This sheet also touches on today, tomorrow, yesterday, number of days until the weekend and the end of the school year, the weather, and monthly holidays! This is a great daily activity that gives the students daily repeated practice! This is something that the students enjoy d

This is a quiz to assess the student's knowledge of integers! This is a 12 question quiz where the students will write whether an answer will be positive, negative, or zero. They will need to solve the problems to come to the correct answer. There are also 2 problems in which they will show their work and solve! This is a nice quick assessment to see where the students are in the area of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. It can be given at the beginning of a unit, middle, or end. A