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Life Skills
Life Skills Curriculum
Life Skills includes Personal Finance, Business, Culinary Arts, Sewing, House Maintenance, First Aid, Voting, Basic Auto Maintenance, Driver's Ed, Entrepreneurship, Job & Careers, Using Public Transportation, Child Development, Personal Organization, and Social Skills. Are you learning all the English and Math you could ever want, but don't know how to go about buying a house, car, sew, cook, or drive? Don't forget those essential life skills!Legend
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Biz Kids is a television show for kids that teaches about money and business. Each episode focuses on one aspect of business and money management such as credit, negotiation, wise spending, budgeting and more.
Ages:
11+
Style:
Online TV Show
Kid Start-Up is an informative book that is easy to follow and packed with useful information that even adult entrepreneurs can utilize. The book has a conversational tone, so kids can get through it without dozing off and get ready to get their hands dirty and dive in.
Grade:
4th-7th
Style:
Book
50 debate prompts for kids with reproducible debate sheets complete with background and pros and cons that get kids reading, writing, speaking, and thinking about the topics that spark their interest.
Ages:
9-12
Style:
Book
The Art of Argument teaches students to argue well, with clarity, relevance and purpose. It sharpens their minds as they live, play, and grow in this highly commercial culture.
Grade:
6th-12th
Style:
Workbook & DVD
The Fallacy Detective teaches kids and adults how to recognize bad reasoning with 38 short lessons. A fallacy is an error in logic or a mistake in thinking. This book teaches you how to spot those errors and improve reasoning skills.
Grade:
6+
Style:
Book
Driver's Ed Guru is a free online guide to learning to drive. Get access to DMV practice quizzes, articles, videos, and step-by-step curriculum.
Ages:
15+
Style:
Online Lessons & Videos
Driver Ed in a Box is a structured, easy-to-follow guide to help you and your teen develop safe, collision-free driving habits. Standard driver's ed courses spend too much time discussing the importance of safety belt and the dangers of alcohol while directing too little attention to how a student can become an effective, collision-free driver. This course is self-paced, automatically graded, easy to review and easy to track.
Ages:
16+
Style:
Textbook & Software
The Etiquette Factory teaches etiquette skills by using role playing, songs, stories, games, crafts and treats. Skills covered are introductions, eating, birthday parties, conversations, telephone manners, personal space, kindness, sharing, magic words, cleaning up, being a guest, apologies, table manners, good hygiene, dating, roommates, job hunting and more.
Grade:
PreK-12th
Style:
Textbook & Workbook
St John offers courses in first aid for a range of possibilities. Introduction to First Aid, CPR, using defibrillators, infection control and more.
Ages:
Style:
Online Lessons
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AME is Apprenticeship, Mentorship, and Entrepreneurship. Christian Home Educators of Colorado (CHEC) founded the program in 2007 to help families get back to the tried-and-true method of an apprentice working alongside a master in a trade.
Ages:
Style:
DVD & Database
The Bureau of Labor Statistics offers students the ability to find careers that relate to their own interests and learn fun facts about the economy and jobs.
Grade:
4th-12th
Style:
Online Videos
Everything you want to know about wanting to write a resume. Research how to write your personal resume, review the sample, then develop your own.
Grade:
12th+
Style:
Online
Money Instructor offers life skills learning with math. Everything from counting monmey, to making a shopping list, discounts, chores, earning statements, time cards, health insurance, jobs, income and taxes, and more.
Grade:
PreK-12th
Style:
Workbook
Money Matters is a book that will teach your tennagers financial independence. Bible-based wisdom is taught on getting and keeping a job, how banks and creditors work, managing a savings and checking account, paying for college, knowing when to borrow, and more.
Ages:
15-18
Style:
Textbook & Workbook
Money Skill helps to develop personal finance literacy. It is a free online reality based course that is aimed at high school and college students.
Ages:
12-18
Style:
Online Lessons
Personal Finance for Teens is a teacher-directed interactive course of study covering financial literacy skills. Topics include banking, budgets, credit cards, debt management, taxes, investing, and more.
Ages:
13+
Style:
Book
Practical Money Skills offers lessons plans for students of all ages and students with special needs. Topics range from "What Is Money?" to "Spending Plans."
Grade:
PreK-12th
Style:
Digital Download
The Sewing Collections offers online sewing classes that you can follow. Select the sewing technique you are interested and learn how to sew.
Ages:
Style:
Online
Harrisville Designs offers free online video tutorials to help learn how to knit and crochet.
Grade:
Style:
Online Videos
Gameschooling
Gameschooling is when board and card games are included in the homeschool experience to help enrich learning in a particular subject. Rather than just playing games for fun, gameschooling emphasizes the educational aspect of playing games. Since children tend to learn best while being engaged and having fun, gameschooling is seen as a great way to solidify material that may not be understood as readily if just reading it from a textbook.
Who doesn't love a good argument? Now you can finally prove to your friends and family that you can win any argument, regardless of the topic and which side you're on. In Debatable all players are politicians taking turns debating both serious and silly topics using creative debate strategieslike "Deny everything", "Resort to personal attacks", and "Use made-up science to support you."
Number of Players:
3-16
Ages:
15+
The Entrepreneur Game is the first and only board game to teach investing, marketing, budgeting, negotiating, business, life, literacy, and social skills.
Number of Players:
Ages:
10+
In Ice Cream Empire, kids can build a business, practice entrepreneurship, and experience success in racing to build an empire of ice cream stores. The winner is the one to build their 8 stores first. Player quickly calculate purchases and transactions while using their sense of geography strategically. Invest in inventory, discovery supply and demand principles, and learn how to build a business for long-term success through friendly competition.
Number of Players:
2-4
Ages:
7+
Make Your Case is a party game for people who love to argue. The judge plays a prompt card and the lawyers play their response cards. After everyone has made their case, lawyers are given a second round to sland other cards or boost up their own arguments for the judge's final ruling. Willing lawyer get the point.
Number of Players:
3+
Ages:
13+
Social Genius is a family card game that is built on psychological principles. The game boosts assertiveness, confidence, flexible thinking, and social skills in children and adults in a fun and exciting way. It allows the players to master the art of public speaking and active listening while opening up their minds to new perspectives.
Number of Players:
2-6
Ages:
14+
