Life Skills - Using a Vending Machine - Independent Living - Special Education

This interactive activity helps students practice the skills needed to make purchases using a vending machine. Many special education students struggle knowing how to complete tasks like these, and are therefore reliant on others to help them with this process. If you are looking for an interactive lesson that has students simulate what it is like to do it on their own, this activity brings learning to life. Students read the prompts on the screen and then press the buttons on the vending machine to make the right selection. Students get immediate feedback for each entry. A total of TWENTY FOUR scenarios are included in this download.

❤️ How I Use This In My Classroom ❤️

This activity is very versatile and can be used as a whole group lesson, small group work, or independent practice as well. For a whole group lesson, present the game to the class and have students take turns pressing the buttons for each prompt. You can have students enter responses for each slide individually or by doing a complete scenario themselves. This can also easily be replicated in small groups as well, with more attention given to knowing things like the pattern of the selections (letter first, number second), differentiating similar looking items, etc. Finally, when students have mastered the basic concepts of this activity, you can have them practice it on their own independently.

Purchase Includes DIGITAL ACCESS To:

• Making purchases on a vending machine in an interactive manner
• Student will practice a total of TWENTY FOUR different scenarios