Google Drive - Christmas Tree Budget - Special Education - Life Skills - Money

Is your district increasing the use of technology in the classroom? Are you in the middle of a 1:1 tech roll out? Trying to come up with more idea to make your classroom go DIGITAL? Wanting to come up with a fun technological twist to traditional Christmas lesson plans?

If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are in the right place! Due to an increased demand for Google Drive lesson plans, I have created Google Drive compatible lessons for some of my best sellers!!

Google Drive is an amazing resource that many educators are now using as an interface to support 1:1 digital instruction in the classroom. I pair it up with Google Classroom (a free website) that allows me to digitally send each student in my class a copy of the worksheets that they later submit to me for grading. It is an amazing paper-free process and the kids LOVE working on these worksheets on the computer.

Christmas is the perfect time of year for students to practice some budgeting skills especially with stuff that they love to do around the holidays! One of the most popular of these events is decorating the Christmas Tree each year. Since many students do not have the ability to practice budgeting skills on a day to day basis within the classroom, this download helps to fill a major void. Even the most reluctant of students will be excited to pick and choose items to add to their tree!

Specifically designed for special education / life skills students, this digital packet helps to walk students step by step through the process of purchasing basic Christmas tree decorations. Students are given colorful visuals to help them decide what they would like and are encouraged to select items that will help them stay within budget. Students are guided step-by-step through the process to arrive at their final total. It is important to note, though, that any teacher looking to include more real world math skills into their classroom would benefit from the scaffolded support provided in this download!

This is a great activity that can be used many times to practice budgeting, sight words, money skills, and shopping skills in the classroom!

Purchase Includes:

- 1 page of budget directions

- 2 pages of Christmas Decorations (Catalog)

- 3 pages of visual order sheets

- 1 sample page of how to use the order sheets

- 2 writing reflection activities (10 questions)

- 1 art activity where students can sketch their tree (needs to be printed ahead of time so students can sketch on it)