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Teachers and parents are provided with twenty activities to encourage communication. Additional strategies are also listed to expand expressive communication.
http://aac.unl.edu/intervention/Encourage_Communication.html
Ready for independent living? This online database allows you to search for available apartments in larger cities throughout the United States.
http://www.apartmentguide.com/
Teachers and students may download Audacity software for FREE at this site. Audacity is a free program that allows students to create blogs so that teachers may incorporate them into their curriculum.
http://www.download.com/Audacity/3000-2170_4-10058117.html
This is a web-based bibliography tool that is fast and easy to use. Students can build a citation page is a snap with this tool.
http://www.bibme.org/
Students integrate Microsoft Publisher, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint into an exercise where they can find out what it would be like to buy their own car.
http://www.otsego.k12.oh.us/bernthisel/carshoppingwebquest.htm
This article has a wealth of resources to direct students down the right career path. Information is given on resume writing, discovering their personality, interviewing, and other parts of the career selection process.
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson160.shtml
Learn how to read labels on food to determine what is really in the food you eat.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Parents/nutritionlabel.html
This publication explains multiple facets of credit--the cost of credit, applying for credit, filing a credit complaint, and other aspects of using credit.
http://federalreserve.gov/pubs/consumerhdbk/
Students, teachers, and parents are presented with an interactive camp adventure to better prepare them for dealing with consumer issues such as credit cards, checking accounts, loans, and other topics.
http://www.consumerjungle.org/
Unbiased reports and information about various products and services.
http://www.consumerreports.org/main/home.jsp
Children ages 9-11 are given the opportunity to see how ads are created, how the customer is enticed to buy, what is fantasy, and what is reality.
http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/
Reading and writing activities for birth to preschool including story ending, funny sounds, rhyme time, and more.
http://www.ed.gov/Family/RWN/Activ97/early.html
Tips for teaching manners.
http://family.go.com/raisingkids/child/dev/feature/dony39famanners/dony39famanners2.html
FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) is the student organization for young men and women in family and consumer sciences education in public and private schools. At this site learn about the organization and its national activities.
http://www.fcclainc.org
An exciting and fun activity for teaching basic safe food handling tips.
http://www.foodsafety.gov/~dms/cbook.html