Life Skills - BOOM CARDS - Money - Math - Budgets - Special Education

Are you looking for a fun way to practice some time skills with your students? This activity has students search for items in the dark by using a flashlight. Students will be given a visual picture of money or a written dollar amount and then will be asked to find that amount of money using a flashlight. They will slide the flashlight around the screen until they find the correct amount. Once they find the amount, they simply press next and move onto the next slide! Please note that these boom cards do not mark answers as right or wrong. Students simply press next once they have found the matching item.

This is more than just a fun matching activity! For lower level students, you can use this lesson to have them simply match the coins / bills on each slide. For higher level learners, you can ask them what is the name of the coin shown, what its value is, discuss different ways to build that total, and then have them go and try and find it using the flashlight. All levels of students can work on real world math and reading skills with relevant and meaningful content that is truly functional! This is a great way to engage in real world conversations in a developmentally appropriate manner!

How I Use This in My Classroom: 

I like to work in small groups for this activity. I have students take turns finding the money amounts in the scene. This is great for lower level students because it is a fun matching activity with age-appropriate and relevant material. For higher level students, we have small group discussions. Before they move the flashlight around, we discuss the names and values for each coin. For the dollar amounts, we practice brainstorming different ways to make the amounts - example: can we come up with three ways to make $25.00? As an extension, we talk about what we can buy in the store with that amount of money. This is a great way to engage in real world conversations in a developmentally appropriate manner!

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Purchase Includes DIGITAL ACCESS To:

- A total of TWENTY EIGHT different money scenarios to search for using a flashlight.

- Five different versions are provided