Your Life Skills and Transition students in high school will love exploring their money management choices and building their budgeting, planning and personal organization skills with these fun new vacation based scenario printables. The worksheets help build math worded problem skills and financial literacy while helping you differentiate across learners, skill levels and settings.
 
Everyone loves a great vacation, but keeping track of the expenses is really important – especially for Life Skills and Transition students who may need extra support to build their critical financial literacy skills. This resource helps you focus on the fun of holidays and activities while also encouraging students to manage their money well.
 
Who is it for?
Life Skills
Transition
Career Education
Vocational Preparation
General Education
ESL / EFL
 
What to do:
•Discuss holiday activities and experiences
•Introduce research skills to help find key information (trip planners, online maps, carbon offset calculators)
•Talk about things that cost money on holidays – accommodation, transport, food, activities, entertainment, clothing, equipment
Discuss problems and challenges that can happen when planning a vacation - getting to a destination, finding an unexpected expense or not having enough money for an activity you had planned
•Read and share the scenario printables and work through the questions individually or in pairs
•Add extra practice with the Easel activities for students who prefer a digital option
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What’s included:
20 printable scenario pages
Spelling / context note:
Additional scenario pages are included to support choice of miles or kilometres for carbon offset printable and choice of miles or kilometres for cab to the airport and buying gas or petrol and miles or kilometres for filling up.
 
Terms of use
Please use this resource only with your own class or group of students. Do not share or post the resource on social media or into a share drive or folder.