Life Launchpad Teacher Guide

A student choice booklet page for Lesson 3: Choice Champions. Students circle their preference for daily tasks and breaks, mark their boundaries, and draw their chosen reward on a white student canvas.

Printable Choice Sorting Mat for Lesson 3: Choice Champions. A dual-category tactile mat dividing space into high-contrast 'YES' and 'NO' sections for students to place physical objects or cards to express preferences.

Visual presentation slides for Lesson 3: Choice Champions. Focuses on setting personal boundaries, choosing preferences, and practicing saying "Yes" or "No" with confidence and support.

A student reflection and match-up worksheet for Lesson 2: Help Helpers. Students identify when they need help, circle the correct helper, and sign their Help Star commitment.

Printable Helper Choice Board for Lesson 2: Help Helpers. A high-contrast, dual-category communication board helping students point to who they want to ask for help and what type of support they need.

Visual presentation slides for Lesson 2: Help Helpers. Focuses on identifying when students need help, who to ask, and how to communicate that request with simple visual scaffolds.

A visual reflection sheet and communication booklet page for Lesson 1: My Super Sign. Students check in on how their body feels, select their preferred communication style, and draw themselves using their super sign.

Printable game cards for Lesson 1: My Super Sign. Features a 4-card set of high-contrast state cards with clear icons, descriptive labels, and physical gesture guidelines to support non-verbal, gestural, and verbal expression.

Visual presentation slides for Lesson 1: My Super Sign. Features high-contrast cosmic superhero themes, huge text, clear visual cues, and guided group prompts to help students identify and express physical and emotional states.

A 2-page printable student daily workbook and self-regulation tracker for the 4-week Orbit Odyssey. It features intuitive layouts with name/date fields, visual check-ins for daily cosmic energy states, simplified reflection boxes, and partner-connection star ratings. Tailored for middle school scholars with disabilities.

A comprehensive 3-page teacher facilitation guide for the 4-week Orbit Odyssey morning meetings. It features a detailed 15-minute pacing breakdown, explicit verbal scripts for choral responses (ship logs and daily affirmations), active sensory cues for daily cosmic energy checks, and structured guidelines for a timed crew turn-and-talk sharing session. Featuring Commander Sosnoff.

A 26-slide presentation for a 4-week, 20-day space explorer themed morning meeting series. Designed specifically for middle school scholars with disabilities, it is led by Commander Sosnoff. Features daily ship logs, cosmic energy/sensory checks, stellar affirmations, and timed turn-and-talk sharing prompts, with no text smaller than 24px.

A 1-page print-friendly daily warm-up with a clean white background. Features 5 skip-counting drills (Part A) and a segment 100s chart with at least 10 missing blank boxes (Part B) for Week 4 patterns and 3-digit.

A 1-page print-friendly daily warm-up with a clean white background. Features 5 skip-counting drills (Part A) and a segment 100s chart with at least 10 missing blank boxes (Part B) for Week 3 place value.

A 1-page print-friendly daily warm-up with a clean white background. Features 5 backwards-counting drills (Part A) and a segment 100s chart with at least 10 missing blank boxes (Part B) for Week 2 subtraction.

A 1-page print-friendly daily warm-up with a clean white background. Features 5 counting-on drills (Part A) and a segment 100s chart with at least 10 missing blank boxes (Part B) for Week 1 addition.

A 2-page collection of task cards (8 total) with vocational scenarios, application matching, and sequencing prompts.

A 4-page student worksheet packet for Vocational Skills and Job Applications. It covers job interest inventory, simplified job posting comprehension, step-by-step job application practice, and a work sequence ordering activity.

A 6-slide presentation for Days 11 to 15 of the Vocational Skills and Job Applications lesson. It covers work roles, job postings, simple application forms, task sequencing, and finding the main theme/goal of work.

A 2-page collection of menu-reading and inferencing task cards (8 total) for independent practice stations.

A 4-page student worksheet packet for Daily Living and Menus. It covers menu reading (finding specific items, simple math), text-highlighting exercises, inferencing card activities, and reading passages with WH questions.

A 6-slide presentation for Days 6 to 10 of the Daily Living and Menus lesson. It covers menu navigation, highlighting key information, making inferences from real-world situations, and literary comprehension.

A 2-page printable activity pack containing 8 safety sign and schedule reading task cards (4 per page in a grid) for small groups, partner activities, or independent practice stations.

A 4-page printable student workbook for Days 1 to 5. It contains safety sign matching, transit schedule reading, WH-question comprehension on an adapted story, and step-by-step sequencing exercises with handwriting space.

An interactive 6-slide presentation for Days 1 to 5 of the Community Signs and Safety lesson. It introduces critical community safety signs, reading schedules, and answering WH questions with large visuals and accessible text for late elementary to high school students with intellectual disabilities.

A 2-page companion teacher guide for Week 4 patterns and 3-digit instruction. Provides skip-counting rhythm scripts, 3-digit place value modeling scripts, solutions, and rubric criteria with an ink-saving white background.