Personal
finance lessons
Monday oct. 17, 2005
- Warm Up: What is income? List people they think have high incomes?
- Reading 6.1 and answer the questions in 12 minutes
- Discuss answers
- Reading 6.2 as a class and discuss questions over this section
- In notes students are to list two types of incomes
- Work
- Use of property
6 Factors that lead
to increased wages
1.
self-discipline
2.
hard work
3.
get along with others
4.
natural ability
5.
demand for that job
6.
education
Tuesday oct. 18, 2005
- Warm
Up: List 6 factors that lead to increased wages.
- Play
the education game where I pull an occupation from the hat and they write down on paper the education requirement for that
occupation
- Begin
notes on education and jobs
Wednesday Oct. 19, 2005
- Warm up:
- How many
hours a week are you allowed to work as a juvenile?
- How many
hours of work before you get a 10 minute break?
- How many
hours of work before you get a ½ hour break?
- Are there
restrictions in types of jobs you can hold?
- Complete
the court case overhead and discuss
- Discuss
professions and pay, show overhead of pay
- Go to
lab and complete the career survey. Project Due Monday Oct. 31 100 points
Thursday Oct. 20, 2005
- In classroom,
Warm up #4 Write down a career you are interested in. What are two parallel careers? What type of training is needed for that career?
http://www.coworkforce.com/LAB/
- complete
career survey
- hand out
project requirement
- give time
to research in lab
Friday Oct. 21, 2005
- Discuss
the project and give the occupational handbook website as research resource http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm , http://www.nycareerzone.org/
- What is
Credit
- Complete
credit
- Update
portfolios
Monday Oct. 24, 2005
- What
is credit 11.2 read and answer questions as a warm up
Tuesday Oct. 25, 2005
- Guest
speaker on credit reports
Wednesday Oct. 26, 2005
- Quiz over
guest speaker notes
- Complete
Credit
- Discuss
project
- Update
portfolios
Monday Oct. 31, 2005
- Complete
Case Study on Credit card use
- Decide
if the 8 examples of credit use by individuals are valid uses of credit.
Tuesday Nov. 1, 2005
- Credit
warm up
- Credit
notes on overhead
- Career
Presentations
- Assign
readings pp.46-48, 52-54, 55-57 and vocabulary A-C for Friday
Wed. Nov. 2, 2005
- presentations
- notes
review on credit
- Notes
on budgeting hand out parent checklist
- Assign Vocabulary A-C and
notes on the three readings in the unit 3 outline
Thursday Nov. 3, 2005
- Guest
speaker credit fraud
Friday Nov. 4, 2005
- 10 point
quiz on credit fraud from guest speaker notes
- Check
Vocabulary and notes 40 points
Monday Nov. 7, 2005
- Warm
up on Budgeting What are the differences between variable and fixed expenses
- Personal
Budgeting notes
- Budgeting activities 20a
and 20b
Tuesday Nov. 8, 2005
- Complete
budgets
- Review
for test
Wed. Nov. 9, 2005
- Test
- Reading
and vocab. On Demand/Supply
Thursday Nov. 10, 2005
1. Wheat market game showing Demand side economics
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