Learning About Life

This is the expanded Life Skills bundle package. It has been finalized, containing 7 units. No additional units will be added to this bundle any longer. A new bundle is being created at this time. This Life Skills bundle contains several units for teaching life skills, ideal for grades 8-12. The activities and lessons are meant to be independently completed by the student. There are no lessons requiring an instructor to teach the units. Students can pace themselves to complete each section. U

This unit would be a great addition to your homeschooling home economics studies. Designed for grades 8-12, these lesson plans will enable your student to work alone, at their own pace while completing assignments with real life scenarios. Students will learn how to shop with a budget, healthy meal planning, reading food labels and cooking a meal that they plan for. Students will use internet links to learn about advertisement of food, food safety and more from FDA websites as well as You Tu

Created to enable students to be self learners, this unit will enable students to learn about money in the real world. Students will learn to be savvy shoppers and smart consumers by creating budgets, learning to write checks, use internet sites to do price comparisons of and purchase of products, stock research and more. Consumerism and targeted ads are explained in this unit for students to understand they must make conscious decisions based upon their actual budget and wants and needs. Wo

Students will be able to use this as a self learning unit. Designed for grades 8-12, this unit will teach organizational, mathematics, problem solving real life math. Students learn to spend their money wisely as they learn about commercials and endorsed products by celebrities and price comparison shopping. This unit bundles well with Career Study, Cooking At Home, Be A Leader, Plan a Vacation and others offered, as it builds upon previous lessons.

Use of this worksheet may be a quick and helpful resource for students to keep track of the stocks they are learning and researching. This worksheet is from the "Be Sensible With Money" unit found in my store, however, it can be used on its own. The worksheet has reflection questions for students to consider after several weeks of monitoring the stock market. Can be used as a worksheet, cooperative learning project, or internet research assignment for the student to complete independently.