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Looking for a housing activity for grades 7–12 that gives students meaningful practice with consumer decision-making, client needs, and apartment hunting? Home Hunters: Apartment Edition is a real-world housing project that challenges students to research actual apartment options, work within a budget, evaluate amenities and features, and recommend housing based on a client's specific needs. 🏡
This activity works well as practice, review, or application after introducing housing, budgeting, consumer skills, or interior design concepts. It can be completed as an independent assignment or extended into a larger real-world learning project.
✨What’s Included
Detailed teacher instructions for implementing the complete activity
Editable slide deck for introducing and guiding the project
Four different client scenarios featuring different budgets, housing needs, locations, and priorities
Warm-up activity focused on evaluating housing trade-offs
Student directions for researching real apartment listings
Editable student worksheet for recording and comparing apartment options
Questions requiring students to justify which apartment best meets their client's needs
An AI adaptation prompt teachers can use to quickly customize the client scenarios to their own city
End-of-class ticket out the door that ties back to budgeting, needs, and wants
Home Hunters: Apartment Edition helps students see how housing decisions involve more than simply finding a place they like. Students must consider budget, needs vs. wants, amenities, location, and trade-offs while making an evidence-based recommendation for a client.🏡
Add this real-world housing project to your middle or high school FCS, consumer education, housing, or interior design curriculum for an engaging way to connect classroom concepts to decisions students will eventually make outside of school.
By Grace,
Baylie Collins
fcsandcreativeness@gmail.com
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