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Life Skills Lesson Plans

Prepare your students for life beyond the classroom with lesson plans that cover essential life skills such as financial literacy, communication, and problem-solving. These activities provide practical knowledge and experiences. Use them to empower students with the tools they need for success.

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100 Mix and Match Lunches Anyone Can Make teaching resource preview
Self-care & healthy habitsSafety & emergencies

100 Mix and Match Lunches Anyone Can Make

'100 Mix and Match Lunches Anyone Can Make' This eBook, tailored for all grades from Pre-K to 12th, promotes the development of lifelong kitchen skills amongst children while encouraging healthy eating habits.

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A New Pet!: A Cross-Curricular Unit teaching resource preview
Choices & problem solving

A New Pet!: A Cross-Curricular Unit

A cross-curricular Pre-K/Kindergarten unit combining a short narrative reading passage about a girl named Jade getting a new puppy with matching, identification, and creative-drawing worksheets that teach pet-care responsibility and life skills.

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Pre-K–K
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Cooking and Nutrition Lessons | Life Skills Unit teaching resource preview
Self-care & healthy habitsSafety & emergencies

Cooking and Nutrition Lessons | Life Skills Unit

8 lessons for nutrition and cooking. Each lesson includes a page outline that can be used as a discussion guide or a handout for students. Some lessons have a template for lists, planning, or recipes.

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6–7
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Canadian Investment Accounts – RRSP, TFSA, FHSA, RESP teaching resource preview
Money & budgeting

Canadian Investment Accounts – RRSP, TFSA, FHSA, RESP

Teach high school students about five Canadian investment account types (RRSP, TFSA, FHSA, RESP, non-registered/cash) and their tax implications, updated to include the newer First Home Savings Account.

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8–12
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Finances and Record Keeping Lessons | Life Skills Unit teaching resource preview
Money & budgeting

Finances and Record Keeping Lessons | Life Skills Unit

Finances and Record Keeping Lessons | Life Skills Unit includes 7 lessons for basic finances. Have students create a Life Skills notebook to file away useful information for their future as you learn about necessary life skills.

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5–8
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Credit Lit (Credit 101 for Teens) teaching resource preview
Money & budgeting

Credit Lit (Credit 101 for Teens)

Credit-Lit an inspiring and informative book, engages teens and encourages them to make GREAT financial decisions. The Credit-Lit lessons is a financial literacy workshop for high school students where they will learn the impact of credit…

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7–12
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Functional Life Skills - Personal Hygiene teaching resource preview
Self-care & healthy habits

Functional Life Skills - Personal Hygiene

Select the routine and response format that suits the learner, such as handwashing sequence cards or picture matching. Model the steps before practice and use the tracking sheets to record progress.

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Credit Score and Credit Report Financial Literacy Project teaching resource preview
Money & budgetingJob applications & workplace skills

Credit Score and Credit Report Financial Literacy Project

A multi-part financial-literacy project teaching students about credit scores and credit reports, combining video-based lessons, worksheets, an adult-interview assignment, and reflection activities.

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6–12
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Debt and Bankruptcy: Personal Financial Literacy Lesson teaching resource preview

Debt and Bankruptcy: Personal Financial Literacy Lesson

Here's a ready to go lesson about debt and bankruptcy for your high school students. It can be used in math class when learning about percentages and interest rates, in career and personal planning class when talking about budgeting and…

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8–12
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Healthy Eating - Eating Habits and Food Choices teaching resource preview
Self-care & healthy habitsJob applications & workplace skills

Healthy Eating - Eating Habits and Food Choices

Explores the medical, physical, cultural, emotional, and societal factors that shape a Grade 6 student's eating habits and food choices, including allergies/intolerances, disease-related diets, taste, busy lifestyles, culture, and school influences, ending with the link between healthy eating, active living, and wellbeing.

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4–7
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Electrical Safety - Lesson Bundle teaching resource preview
Safety & emergencies

Electrical Safety - Lesson Bundle

Multi-format lesson bundle teaching electrical safety in the home (hazards, circuit breakers/fuses, grounding, shock effects).

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8–10
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Healthy Habits teaching resource preview
Self-care & healthy habitsFriendship & communication

Healthy Habits

A health education resource teaching elementary students healthy habits across multiple topics (sleep, nutrition, hydration, hygiene, clean clothing, clean home, and more) through informational reading passages, 'I can' statement worksheets, and 'Try This!' actionable tip lists.

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2–5
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Kitchen Safety - Lesson and Worksheet teaching resource preview
Safety & emergencies

Kitchen Safety - Lesson and Worksheet

A slide-based lesson plus a companion worksheet teaching students how to recognize and prevent common kitchen hazards (falls, burns, cuts, shocks, poisoning, choking).

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5–10
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