This fun activity put life skills into real life situations to help and support young people in their ability to budget successfully and understand how to use their money most effectively.
Using the backdrop of Drag Racing and owning your first vehicle the simple activities, along with budgeting spreadsheets, allow you to understand how to maximise your income and predict spending and unpredictable outgoings.
Topic: Budgeting
Context: Drag Racing
This exercise allows the student to “play” with variable factors, to achieve the best result possible when designing their own drag racing vehicle. It will also introduce them to ideas of trade off and value for money.
Activity: imi-life-skills-activity-budgeting
Spreadsheet: budgeting-template
Topic: Finance & money
Context: Buying a Car
This IMI life skills activity will support young people to be able to prepare a cash-flow forecast and to understand the importance of cash flow and how to improve it whilst preparing on saving and budgeting to own your first vehicle.
Activity: imi-life-skills-activity-cash-flow
Spreadsheet: cash-flow-template
Topic: Self motivation
Context: We all need to feel motivated. To get up and get going in the morning, to push ourselves to succeed and reach our goals. Whether it’s our own internal motivation or the motivation we derive from others, we need to equip ourselves with the knowledge of what drives us, and our friends, family, and team members so we can be our best and most effective selves.
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Topic: Teamwork and Communication
Context: Nearly everyone works as part of a team so it’s not surprising that employer’s rate good team working very highly. But what skills do you need to be good at team working and do you have them? This is a skill area which most people can talk about as most people have been part of a team.
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