The following sites provide lessons and activities on various subjects related to life skills.
Book One Foundations/Literacy
http://www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/adultesol/bookone.html
Contains lesson plans for teaching subjects such as workforce development skills, effective telephone communication, U.S. concepts of time and money, consumer education, and family and parenting.
Guide to Financial Literacy Resources
http://www.frbsf.org/community/webresources/bankersguide.pdf
Available through the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, this guide to financial literacy resources includes information about both free and commercial materials.
Home Safety Council
http://www.homesafetycouncil.org/homesafetymonth/hsm_checklist_w001.aspx
Provides information on preventing home-related injuries, and includes downloadable home safety education materials and an online safety guide providing information on various items such as disaster preparation, fire, falls, and poisons.
Household Safety Checklists
http://kidshealth.org/parents/firstaid_safe/home/household_checklist.html
Some checklists for identifying safety hazards in the home, but the site focuses primarily on child and teen health.
Interactive Newspaper on Life Skills
http://www.thewclc.ca/edge
Newspaper-style format provides information on issues such as health, street safety, consumer awareness, missing work, etc. Provides practice in reading and listening.
Money Smart Adult Financial Education Curriculum
http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/moneysmart/overview.html
Prepared by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Money Smart training program is designed to help adults enhance their money skills and learn more about credit and banking services. It is available in an instructor-led version and a computer-based version, and both versions consist of ten modules.
Nutrition Labels Brochure
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~acrobat/nutfacts.pdf
Good graphics to explain the different parts of a nutrition label.
Ordinal Numbers
http://www.aaamath.com/nam15-ordinals.html
Interactive lessons and exercises for learning ordinal numbers.
REEP Gateway
http://www.reepworld.org
Arlington County's website for ESOL teachers and adult learners. Teacher pages include life-skills based curriculum for all ESOL levels (including activities to teach English skills) and annotated resource list of links to other websites. Student pages include interactive instruction on how to use the mouse and navigate the website, audio/video interviews with follow up activities. Also includes segments on health-related topics (the body, healthy life, food, health problems, emergencies, and medicine) along with follow up activities such as matching vocabulary words with pictures.
Typing Program
http://learn2type.com
Typing lessons, games, and tests.
Tutors and teachers may find these documents useful to supplement materials on life skills.
