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DRIVER EDUCATION - ROAD TRIP PROJECT
This is a project that can be used in your driver education classroom. It will require research of miles between points, time tables, gasoline mileage of a chosen vehicle and budgeting a certain amount of given moey for the entire ROAD TRIP ! Have fun.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Personal Finance Budget Simulation
Fifth grade students in Texas are expected to be able to describe the importance of creating a budget in which income and expenses are balanced. Use this fun simulation/game to introduce the concept in a relevant way to your kiddos!
To play, students will only need whiteboards or lined paper to keep track of their expenses. Each student will start out with $20 in allowance money and will be asked to make spending decisions as they travel throughout the mall with their best friend.
An unexpec
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Personal Financial Literacy
Fifth graders in Texas are expected to be able to define four types of taxes (payroll, income, sales, and property). They are also expected to explain the importance of developing a budget and balance budgets.Make these abstract skills come to life in The Game of Life--a real world financial literacy situation. Students will randomly draw a job and associated salary (found at the end of the powerpoint). Then, as the teacher guides them through the slides, they will have to make financial decisio
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Day 3 - Weekly Shopping List / Grocery Budget Worksheet
On Day 3 of the Socioeconomic Simulation, students will use real, tangible grocery magazines to determine a weekly shopping list for their profile. After calculating the prices of their groceries for a week, students may multiply by "four" to determine the grocery budget for the month, and update the previous class period's budget accordingly.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in:Â Financial Literacy/Socioeconomic Simulation 5-Day Unit
Personal Budgeting Lesson
Cut out the salaries and jobs at the bottom and have students randomly draw from a hat. Using that salary, they follow the steps of budgeting for the month. (You may want to have them choose their family size before they draw the salary.) I usually have them complete an entire round before I have them draw out the good/bad issues from a separate hat.
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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Why Paying the Minimum is Bad - Credit Card Debt Calculator - Percents
This Excel file is set up to show students how quickly debt can add up if they only pay the minimum balance on a credit card. The spreadsheet is already formatted to do the calculations for you! All you have to change is your initial credit card balance and change the APR and minimum payment balance to fit different scenarios. This is a quick way to show your students the "big picture" when it comes to credit card debt. It is also a nice way to introduce students to applications of percents
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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2 Dice Probability Bingo Game
Simple Bingo game where students can use a bingo game as an experiment to discover which values are the highest probability in either the sum of 2 dice or the difference of 2 dice.
Students fill in the sheets with values they think will come up. They get to fill in one square per round if the have a value that matches the sum/difference of the dice. After the first game is played, it should be played again to allow students to use their understanding to improve their chances. Eg. using more
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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Probability
This is a student product based assessment. This uses most of the Texas Teks of probability but allows students to use things that interest them. I plan to use this as an optional test grade to help boost student test scores.
The idea is for students to pick three in order to make a tic-tac-toe.
Teks included: 7.6 A,C,E,H,I
Simple, compound, theoretical, and experimental included
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Grades:
7th
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Learning the Stock Market
Learn about the stock market and how to invest in stock. Students will need to select stocks to follow and then determine if they made or lost money. This unit has vocabulary, KWL, Brainstorming activity, and Stock Challenge to simulate the buying and selling of stock.
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Grades:
4th - 10th, Adult Education
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Trouble with Probability
Students will use the popper board game to study the probability of a fair dice.They will play a (speed-up) version of the classic board game to determine how many times each number of a die appears. They will calculate the percentage of occurrence of each number to determine if the die is fair. Follow up questions about how to change the probability of the die are also included as either homework or an extension of the activity.
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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Day 2 - SocioSim Profiles
On Day 2 of the Socioeconomic Simulation, use these profiles in individual folders to give students an opportunity to get to know the profile they will be working with, and reference for making a budget.Profiles #9 and #19 are written with consideration of IEP/504 plans that may need less writing for processing/reading level accommodation.
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Financial Literacy/Socioeconomic Simulation 5-Day Unit
Days 1-5 Slides/Directions for SocioSim
The Socioeconomic Simulation can be framed as a financial literacy unit as well. Combining Math and ELA standards and cross-curricular group work, students can work with a variety of writing, reading, and math skills. These slides keep things organized, moving, and engaging as daily activities are presented and new challenges arise for the profiles in the group folders.
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Financial Literacy/Socioeconomic Simulation 5-Day Unit
Day 4 - Financial Setback
One Day 4 of the Socioeconomic Simulation, students are going to find a financial setback in their profile folder. The setback page will include how much the setback is going to cost, as well as the credit score for the profile, so they may tell the banker what their score is for an APR% when applying for a loan.
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Financial Literacy/Socioeconomic Simulation 5-Day Unit
Day 5 - Voter Information Pamphlets
On Day 5 of the Socioeconomic Simulation, print/fold each of the "Voter Information" pamphlets and leave them in the designated profile's folder so students may have a guided reasoning for how their profile's person would vote regarding raising the minimum wage.
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Financial Literacy/Socioeconomic Simulation 5-Day Unit
Introduction to Symmetry
This PowerPoint presentation has been designed to give a visual representation of how to introduce the concept of symmetry in the classroom. The slideshow is animated and walks the students through the process step-by-step when trying to problem solve symmetry questions.
There are four different shapes shown. You can adjust the presentation to stop the animation in order to have the students try to problem solve it first or you can use it simply as an introductory guide before teaching the
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Problem Solving Using the "Draw a Picture" Strategy
This PowerPoint presentation introduces the idea of how to use the "draw a picture" strategy in math. This presentation can be approached in two ways:
1) Show the entire presentation so students can see how the "draw a picture" strategy can be used to find the answer to a problem solving question.
2) Show the first slide and give students the opportunity to try and solve it themselves before showing the answer.
It is a two-part problem solving question with the first part being relatively
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Personal Consumer Math Savings Plan
This activity helps students see the difference in saving different amounts of money at over similar time periods. Most students we talk with are very nearsighted when saving money, and this will help them see how fast savings add up over the course of several weeks to a year. It will also help students create goals in saving to help purchase a "big ticket item." Students have different tables to enter their weekly savings, and after they complete they will graph the savings on a unlabeled graph
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
Day 5 - Voting Restrictions
On Day 5, students are told they will be voting on a district question regarding raising the minimum wage. First, all profile groups will vote using a paper ballot as a "yes" or "no" in a survey vote. Then, when it is time for the "official" vote, students will open the envelope in their folder for their official ballot. Some student groups will have a ballot in their envelope, but some students will have one of the following voting restrictions in their envelope instead.
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Financial Literacy/Socioeconomic Simulation 5-Day Unit
Day 2 - Budget Worksheet
Once students have read the criteria delineated in their profile page, they may determine a tentative budget using this worksheet. Once students get their paycheck, they may either use a blank version of this worksheet again, or modify the original tentative budget sheet with red pen.
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Financial Literacy/Socioeconomic Simulation 5-Day Unit
Day 4 - Loan Calculator Worksheet
After students open their profile folders to determine what kind of financial setback they have encountered, and ask the teacher for their 5- and 10-year APR% based on their profile's credit score, they may use this worksheet to determine the interest rate for each loan.
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Financial Literacy/Socioeconomic Simulation 5-Day Unit
Blank Checks
This page has 4 blank checks. Since it is created using Microsoft Word, changes may be made accordingly. Checks can be printed and then written on or typed on prior to printing.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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Theoretical and Experimental Probability
A recording sheet to allow students to document the ins and outs of theoretical and experimental probability. Texas TEK: 7.6I
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Grades:
7th
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Managing a budget practice.
Example of managing a budget with withdrawals and deposits. 15 different scenarios.
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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Experimental vs. Theoretical Probability with Spinners
Have students explore probability with hands-on manipulatives such as spinners. The document is attached as a word doc so that you can change pictures of spinners or various probability manipulatives that are available to you.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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