Tom Cook

This project is a comprehensive life and budgeting project. The idea is to give students a taste of what it is like to have to manage a real budget with real expenses. I used this project as the basis for a semester long class about managing money and career development. Included in this product are student instructions, Life Strikes! cards (which include events that could mess up even the most carefully planned budget!) All that you need to do is to decide on how much money to give the stud

This webpage is the accompaniment to the Life Strikes! project that is available for free at my Store. This JavaScript program will randomly generate a "life" for your student to live out in the Life Strikes! project. The information is based on the 2010 Census (most recent available.) Please do NOT edit the code unless you know what you are doing. JavaScript can be temperamental. Please contact me directly if you need something custom coded! If you like this, check out Life Budgeting Ev

This is an add-on to the Life Strikes project, it is not required for the project. This is a browser based program that expands upon the Event Cards that are a part of the Life Strikes project. The free download includes everything you need for the project, but this new addition extends the events to a total of 50. I have found this makes giving events much more fun, much faster, and because it is browser-based, you will be able to show every event to every student in the class and have entir

This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a simple project to introduce students to JavaScript. Through this lesson, students will learn the basic syntax and structure of JavaScript. This can be completed in one week and is intended to be a discovery method product. The students will need internet access and should be encouraged to experiment, fail, and keep trying!

This PPT is a short introductory lesson to the use of CSS in web design. I have used this in the past as a introduction to the topic, followed by creating a CSS page together before setting the students out on their own. It gives basic guidelines for the use and applications of CSS

Marketing is a huge area of business consisting of just about every function needed to operate. Advertising tends to be the part that students know and are very interested in. This project is intended to capitalize on student's excitement to get them thinking about a product or service and market their idea across different media outlets. This project is intended for 9 weeks, though it can easily be lengthened to an entire semester or condensed as your schedule allows. A general rubric is in

This project is meant to help students apply knowledge in several areas including spreadsheets, such as Excel and a major business topic, Inventory Control and Cost of Sales. This is not a full lesson, but an activity meant to stretch the students' understanding and ability to apply skills that are learned in classes dealing with spreadsheets or general business. Cost of Sales Sheet The cost of sales is essentially how much it cost for the inventory. A major factor of the sheet was determin

A fun and a colorful Scavenger hunt for an Art Museum visit. This was designed with a K-3 student in mind but could be appropriate for many age levels.