Australian Money Shopping Life Skills Activity – Interactive AUD Checkout Game (Offline HTML)

Practise real Australian supermarket shopping — tap, total, pay and check change with AUD notes and coins.

Most interactive money games use US dollars. Aussie Checkout Lab is built for Australian classrooms: no 1c/2c coins, cash rounding to the nearest 5c, and the 11 notes & coins students actually use.

What students do (4 steps every round)

1) Shop pick items from a 16-item supermarket shelf using a shopping list

2) Total — choose or type the total; round to 5c on Hard

3) Pay — drag (or tap) $5$100 notes and 5c–$2 coins; next-dollar-up hints

4) Change choose or build the correct change

4 levels

• Easy: whole dollars, pay exact

⭐⭐ Medium: dollars & cents, get change

• ⭐⭐ Hard: quantities, 5c cash rounding, build change with coins

• 💰 Budget Challenge: buy 3+ items under $10 / $15 / $20

Teacher features

Printable Teacher Answer Summary (items, total, rounded amount, paid, change, first-try steps)

• Edit all prices to match your local catalogue or IEP targets

• Score, rounds (310), hint on/off, student name

• Big buttons, tap or drag, keyboard friendly, no audio required

What's included

• Aussie-Checkout-Lab.html (single offline file)

• Teacher Guide PDF (levels, 5c rounding rule, IEP goal examples, lesson ideas)

• README

Requirements — please read

Opens in a web browser (Safari on iPad, Chrome on Chromebook/PC, Edge). No internet, login or app after download. Progress saves in that browser on that device only. Not a Boom/Google product. Try the FREE 1-level demo first to check your devices.

Licence: single teacher/classroom. Original illustrations; not replicas of real currency. Practice only, no real payments.

Tags: australian money, AUD, life skills, special education, counting change, cash rounding, budgeting, interactive