<prompt> Human: Also, did any of you have a particularly interestingrevelatory lesson that stuck with you. I teach in a predominantly high poverty school and I want to focus on the most important lessons for my particular students, state standards be damned. Also, ideas for game based learning would be awesome, Ive got a PF RPG rolling around my head but since I have no experience with paper RPGs Im a little daunted. Edit: Thank you everyone! Im blown away by the response! I will do my best to give you an update in 2 months after the unit! Assistant: I have heard of classes that have to make a budget for themselves, an imaginary spouse, and child. They see that babies are expensive, life is expensive, food and gas are expensive, housing is crazy expensive, new cars arent often affordable, and minimum wage isnt easily livable. Its a good lesson to invest in yourself, your future, and make smart choices now.Human: Budgeting was the most useful thing I had learned. The only thing I would change about what OP said and what I was taught is that I would have adjusted a budget to work immediately after high school. By adding a baby, mortgage, new car, and other things people dont usually get until after collegegetting a good full-time job, the budget seems like something far off in the future to high-school me. Current me a.k.a. college me pays rent instead of mortgage, school loans instead of a baby, and was smart and used public transit when I lived in a big city.Assistant: A large number of my students already have children, or will in the very near future, and many are already contributing to their household by working, so its actually pretty pertinent. But I get what you mean.  <response>: I really appreciate that youre including PF in your econ class. The PF element is such a great way to tie the tangible into a world that must be completely foreign to your students.How do you approach subjects like the cost of having children and other life choices so young when its already reality for some of your students? 