Category: Team Building

On Brand: Kitchen Appliances

by K.Graybill • May 22, 2026 • 0 Comments

If you haven’t watched the new reality show “On Brand with Jimmy Fallon“, you don’t know what you’re missing! This show is basically a gamified competition where participants create and pitch marketing campaigns for a variety of well known products. As I was watching this series, I couldn’t help but think that this would be a great activity to adapt to topics within our course content. As previously promised, I’m sharing On Brand: Kitchen Appliances, developed by Lindsey Harlan of Arkansa! Stay tuned as I’m working on another one that will share at a later time!

On Brand & The Real Food Guide Pyramid

by K.Graybill • March 13, 2026 • 0 Comments

If you haven’t watched the new reality show “On Brand with Jimmy Fallon”, you don’t know what you’re missing! This show is basically a gamified competition where participants create and pitch marketing campaigns for a variety of well known products. As I was watching this series, I couldn’t help but think that this would be a great activity to adapt to topics within our course content. The first one I’ll be sharing is On Brand & The Real Food Guide Pyramid. But wait! There will be more ideas coming as Lindsey Harlan has a great one she is working on and will be shared at a later time…so stay tuned!

Shrinkflation

by K.Graybill • January 23, 2026 • 0 Comments

For years products have been decreasing in size, but not in price! This is known as Shrinkflation and in this lesson, students will learn what the concept means as well as how to calculate the percentage change in product sizes and then how consumers can fight back. This is a great lesson for a consumerism class, a financial literacy class or even a foods class!

Infant Temperaments

by K.Graybill • November 21, 2025 • 0 Comments

We are all born with characteristics that influence our behavior, mood, disposition and adaptability to our environment; AKA “temperament”. The focus of this lesson titled, Infant Temperament, is to help students understand what it is, how it is determined and how it applies to parenting and babies in very engaging ways.

Elevate the Box: Remixing Hamburger Helper

by K.Graybill • November 7, 2025 • 0 Comments

After watching an episode of The Bear and seeing Sydney elevate an ordinary box of hamburger helper into a gourmet worthy dish, I knew I had to create a lesson and cooking challenge lab around it. Thus, Elevate the Box: Remixing Hamburger Helper was born!

Consumer Rights

by K.Graybill • October 24, 2025 • 0 Comments

For years I found teaching about Consumer Rights dry and boring, and so did my students! That all changed when I figured out how to make teaching about the Consumer Rights more engaging. So, here you have it: a variety of different activities to make this important topic more interactive! Note: This post is just to introduce students to their consumer rights. There will be additional posts coming that have students applying the consumer rights information to other content areas.

Resiliency & The Family

by K.Graybill • October 3, 2025 • 0 Comments

Challenging situations in life escape no one, especially the family! Resiliency & The Family will provide you with ready to teach lesson plans that define many aspects of resiliency, explore associated risk and protective factors along with related characteristics in a variety of engaging ways.

The Great Race: Pioneers of Education

by K.Graybill • August 29, 2025 • 1 Comment

Many schools are teaching a course around the priciples of education and cover the pioneers of education. Sometimes teaching about “famous” people can be dry and boring, so why not add an element of competition and gamification to jazz it up! The Great Race: Pioneers of Education places the learning in the hands of your students! The activity is from EduProtocol Field Guide (called The Great American Race). Students are responsible for preparing the clues for the race and then compete individually or in groups to see knows their pioneers the best and is the first to successfully complete the race!

Money Talks Bulletin Board & Ice Breaker Activity

by K.Graybill • August 15, 2025 • 0 Comments

As a teacher, you have a lot on your plate! Why not let your students help you create bulletin boards as they also get acquainted with you, your class and their peers? The “Money Talks Bulletin Board & Ice Breaker Activity” will help you get your personal finance class or unit started, keep students engaged and help them learn more about each other and in the process you will learn more about their financial habits and backgrounds! It’s a WIN, WIN, WIN for everyone!

Guess Who? Games

by K.Graybill • August 8, 2025 • 0 Comments

Set the tone of your class by engaging students right off the bat! Try using one of the “Guess Who? Games”, especially if you teach a food, fashion or child development class. These games get them thinking creatively, communicating and moving pretty quickly. Not only will you set the stage to the type of classroom you will run, but it let’s them know that your teaching style is probably very different than most typical classrooms!

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