Life Skills Lesson Plans

Examine the attributes of wise consumers by looking at the price of goods. Young consumers will look at items they would like to purchase, and determine how to long it would take to earn the money to make those purchases. Next, they complete a worksheet that describes how inflation works by looking at current price compared to what they might be the next year. Perfect life skill activity.

Investigate the importance of using and managing credit effectively. Middle schoolers will use mathematics/life skills to explore the cost of using credit and examine advantages and abuses of credit.  Students also examine general types of insurance. 

Use a mock grocery store to learn about money concepts, making lists, spelling, and life skills. Young shoppers will use real money, make grocery lists, learn how to interact with a cashier and customer, and bag groceries. Great for teaching everyday life applications with links to math.

Develop life skills through the use of an AppleWorks Banking kit, a spreadsheet program, and a role play activity. This life skills lesson utilizes technology plus busines and social studies principles. Note: All materials suggested can be easily found without having to use a special resource.

Discuss and debate drugs in our society, the effects of drug use during employment and travel, life skills and where to seek help/advice with your class. In addition, you will have them seek out articles in the press as well as experts in the field to explore more facts and details on drugs.

Students delve into the life and work of Jane Goodall through the five lessons of this unit. Opportunities to experience authentic life skills such as observation of wildlife, and experimentation are experienced as students study the characteristics of monkeys.

Explore life skills with your class, in which they design, and produce a hard copy program for and about the life skills. They follow one to two step directions. Then they select the proper upper and lower case letters necessary to print one's first and last name using the computer. They can select one's own name form a series of ten names.

Adult learners, examine the Internet to answer life skills, use an online dictionary, evaluate web sites and fill in online forms. They will also write about web sites in this series of activities.

View a video about friends, relationships, cliques, bullies and getting along with others. Then discuss various segments in the film and role-play several situations that are presented. Finally, young scholars will write an editorial exploring a related issue and present it to the class.

Use a video on self-modeling to practice life skills as part of an Autism activity. Students complete modeling activities and use a video activity to practice the life skills.