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Snack Stand

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  • Price per Classroom
    $10 00
  • Duration 2 Hours
  • Activities 44
  • Grade 8-12

Lab Description

This is the individual/single-player version of the original Snack Stand lab. Snack Stand is a business simulation lab in which the students are asked to run a virtual snack stand for the Family Field Day event at school.

The students will analyze the data from the events in the past 5 years to understand & build data models for each of the three products that can be sold at the event. Based on the models, they will make purchasing decisions, price the products for each of the 2 hours in the event, and adjust the price based on the weather of the hour. Students are given an objective that they have to make at least $150.00 profit by the end of the 2nd hour.


This particular lab is a shortened version of the full version which will be run by teams and has ten products to be sold.

Who this course is for

The lab is suitable for middle school and high school students.

Student Feedbacks

We asked students, what you remember the most about the lab, and here are some of the responses


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How to change the price of different products due to weather. How by changing the prices higher or less will affect how many customers you will have.
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learning how to read revenue profit graphs
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What I will remember from this lab is how important it is to plan out what to do with a project in advance and to always be ready for unexpected events.
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I will remember how it taught me how to adjust prices due to the weather and how other things can factor in the pricing of the items.
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The Graphing. There was so much graphing involved. Profit curves are ingrained in my memory.
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How it taught us how to make a profit.
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It tot me how to prepare for the weather and how to adjust prices.
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the fact that my group got second
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I will remember getting to work on this with a teammate.
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Changing prices on certain items based on the weather.
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Pairing prices and demand with weather conditions.
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All the stuff I learned.
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the weather predictions
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The importance of graphs to business.
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how to handle money and the profit
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The graphs
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Activities (38 Minutes)

Sub Activities
  1. Review Questions
  2. Write your questions ...
Sub Activities
  1. Weather - Attendance Model
Sub Activities
  1. Check your understanding
  2. Predicting Profit
Sub Activities
  1. Review Questions
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  • Price per Classroom
    $10 00
    $50.00
  • Duration 2 Hours
  • Activities 44
  • Grade 8-12