Positives vs. Negatives

This week in my online Math class I am learning about positive numbers and negative numbers. I can't help but remember when I was growing up and I was learning about these topics as a young student and my dad would try and explain it to me in "his terms" and I was SO confused. I look back on the techniques that he used and they were something that I understand as an adult however, as a young student I was confused out of my mind. My dad was trying to use his terms of a "visual aid" by standing in front of me and pretending to be at a 3 for instance and walking back 5 places and would ask me where I am now. Thinking about this I now know what I will NOT be doing to teach this topic to my students,  instead I will show them real visual aids. The photo that I have below is a line graph, which is one visual aid that I would use in a situation to show students how to add and subtract with positive and negative numbers. 

I was looking for some more resources that would be great to use for students learning about positive and negative numbers and came across a couple websites with games one is pbskids.org and the other is mathisfun.com both are fun and great for students of all ages. 

Students will be learning how to add, subtract, multiply and divide with positive and negative numbers. 

A great "real-life" scenario that would be great for students is a checkbook, I would start by showing the students what a checkbook is and how you can and would use it and then I would give them examples so they have to add and subtract in their very own checkbooks. It will be the students responsibility to keep track of their own checkbooks.