Tag: High School

Goals Make You Reach the Sky Activity & Bulletin Board

The winner of the February give away is this lesson from Jessica Uplinger, a Family Consumer Science teacher from Ohio. In her lesson, students learn how important goals are and learn to make their own.

Fruit Lab

One of my favorite things to do with students are taste tests. They absolutely love it if they are brave enough to give it a try. So many students never get the chance to try different fruits unless their parents expose them to them. Bring on this lesson that will be sure to be some students’ favorite.

Tourism & Hospitality Lesson Plans, Worksheets, & PowerPoints

Lesson Plans Tourism & South Africa Tourism Lesson Amazon.com Widgets Worksheets Categories of Tourism PowerPoint Assignment (Word) PowerPoint Management Structures in Tourism (PPT) Socio-Cultural Impacts of Tourism (PPT) Tourism & Sustainability (PPT) USA Tourism (PPT) Tourism in India (PPT) Environmental…

Diaper Cost Analysis Project

What is the cheapest way to buy diapers? Do subscriptions to Amazon Prime or memberships to wholesale clubs really save you money on diapers? Why not do the math? This is a complex problem but easy enough to understand and develops student’s problem solving skills.

What do Babies Think? Alternative Activity

This is an activity I came up with after reading the What do Babies Think Lesson previously shared on the website. I couldn’t assign the experiment included in the lesson because my students didn’t have access to children in that age range, but I did find a site where students could find their own interesting picture of a baby and literally put baby’s thoughts into words. It’s called “Blabberize” and it’s super easy to use and free and my students had a great time with it. I made a class account and students just saved their work individually which also saved trees and in the end they can view each others work very easily.

What is the best family cell phone plan? Problem Solving Lesson

Problem solving is one skill that has to be taught. If you think about it, we really want students who can problem solve, not memorize a whole bunch of facts or methods for doing something. This lesson happens to be about cell phone plans since it is a problem that students can easily understand yet is more complex so even our brightest students will be challenged in figuring it out.

Christmas Cookie Factory: Day 3

They are all the rage this year. Red velvet cookies are what we made day 3 of the Christmas Cookie Factory. For those who like easy, semi-homemade cookies these are delightfully simple. Red Velvet Christmas Cookies 5 Different Ways! Ingredients…

Christmas Cookie Factory: Day 2

On the second day of baking massive amounts of cookies, find the red & green chocolate, chocolate chip cookies. Did I say chocolate twice? These are brownie like cookies with the beautiful touch of red and green chips. Red &…

Christmas Cookie Factory: Day 1

On the first day of the Christmas Cookie Factory there were these irresistibly fun chocolate chips in the grocery store that just needed to be made into something tasty but that still showed of their colors! Red & Green Chocolate…