Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Circle Question: 1) After considering your budget, what do you think will be the hardest thing when you are living on your own?  2) After considering your budget, what is the bare minimum you know think you would need to live comfortably?  3) What is a job or career you have been thinking about and does it meet the minimum salary(will you get paid enough) to live somewhat comfortably?

Vocabulary: Credit Cards, Interest Rates(on credit cards) Compounding Interest, Delayed Gratification

Learning Target: 

Big Picture -- I can explain the importance for living on a budget.  

Students will be able to develop a budget for living on their own.

Success Criteria --

I can do simple internet research to estimate the price for certain items.

I can analyze my economic choices to determine adjustments I can make in my choices to live within a budget.

Unit: Economics: The Personal Budget*

Learning Target: 

Big Picture -- I can explain the importance for living on a budget.  

Students will be able to develop a budget for living on their own.

Success Criteria -- I can do simple internet research to determine the price for certain items.

I can do simple internet research to estimate the price for certain items.

I can analyze my economic choices to determine adjustments I can make in my choices to live within a budget.

Today

1) Finish the 12 stations you are cycling through.  At each station you will be researching specific budget needs and entering them on your spreadsheet.

2) When the budget is complete, make adjustments to ensure future happiness!

Requirements:

-All fields filled out, including notes

-Put adjusted amounts in ALL columns, even if the amount is staying the same (insert a note explaining changes)

Unit: Economics: The Personal Budget Rubric*

Personal Reading

Unit: Economics

Learning Target: I can research to determine jobs I might like to day and what is required to get the job, what I might earn, how much the job is growing, etc. I can make a google slide show to show information I have learned.

1) Visit the Occupational Outlook Handbook

2) Spend 10 minutes surfing the site looking at rapidly growing job fields.

3) Spend 10 minutes surfing career opportunities at CMCC

4) Be ready to report out from your table a career you found interesting and/or a program at CMCC that looks interesting.

5) Spend 5 minutes create a simple google slides presentation about one of the jobs you found interesting.

6) Four slides: Intro, three slides on information from the web site (the tabs for each job are a good way to organize the slides -- just pick three of the tabs).

7) You will be presenting these to Mr. Truman or Mr. Toohey

8) Exemplar

Unit: Economics

Learning Target: I can analyze the movement of stocks and explain why some stocks increase in value while others diminish in value at the same time.

1) Visit Google Finance

2) Learn how to create simple stock comparison charts using the compare tool.

3) Load a 1-year chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

4) At your table, brainstorm & discover companies that have diverged from what the market is doing.

5) Use google news and filtering for the days that a market sharply diverged, find news stories the explain why the stock gained or lost value.

5) Cold call share out of findings.