Paycheck to Payday
A First-Job Money Simulation
- Grades
- Grades 8–12
- Formats
- Google Slides, PDF, PowerPoint
- Pages
- 65
- Answer keys
- Included
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Students take a fictional first job and make it through four pay cycles, responding to realistic surprises without running out of money.
What's included
- 8 first-job profiles
- 4 pay cycles
- 24 event cards
- Worked paths + teacher check tables
- 8 calibrated tight-cycle challenges
- 46 student activity, reference and teaching-practice pages
- Full teacher guidance, differentiation, answers and models
How to use it
For one lesson, choose the first mini-lesson, one supported mission and its response model. For a sequence, work through the suggested sessions and return to the independent mission to check transfer.
Preparation: Print the selected student and reference pages. Provide pencils, scrap paper and calculators where useful. Cut cards only for physical stations; you may display them instead. For digital work, assign an individual copy of the supplied student deck. All source documents are included; no other paid resource is needed.
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Terms of use: one license for one teacher's classroom. Additional licenses are available at a discount.
