Personal Finance Project with Job Planning, Budgeting, and Financial Choices
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This Independent Living Project for Job Planning, Budgeting, and Making Financial Choices includes math practice, realistic job choices, working within a budget, and making independent living decisions. What a well-rounded activity!
When you finish the month-long project center/warm up activity, your students can pick a new job, try to make better choices, and you can run this project again - so easy to reuse, meaningful for students, and a great opportunity to work on functional skills.
What You'll Get:
This activity includes:
- Decision Cards - (2 versions) with 7 significant life choices including marital status, housing options, transportation choices, and more. Students make life choices that will impact their monthly bills - every choice has financial consequences!
- 28 Entry Level Job Cards - Students will choose their jobs based on pay, full or part-time job status, and job description. When the month is over, have students choose a different job! You can also expand this activity by doing some basic job exploration based on each job card!
- 20 Days of Financial Choices - This PDF formatted for your projector or Interactive Whiteboard makes it the perfect postable warm up in your Vocational Training or Job Exploration class! With one a day, this activity should last about a month, but you can always repeat the month with new student jobs to last even longer. From where to get groceries to how to get to work, your choices matter!
- 5 Bonus What Would You Do’s - Feel like throwing your students a curveball? Here are 5 extra choices you can add in to work on decision making, budgeting, and the pocketbook.
- 3 Student Worksheets - **Student Check Register (2 versions) - To write down daily balances; **Job Comparison Sheet (3 Versions) - Visual graphic organizer to compare two to three jobs and help students decide what they’d like to do; **Student Reflection Sheet - Use at the end of the month to reflect on what happened, how much money is left, and what choices you’d make differently.
- PLUS - Three Lifelines! The Student Check Register and the Reflection Sheet have an option where students can use up to three lifelines: Borrow from Parents, Empty Your Savings, and Get a Cash Advance. At the end of the month, they have to make repayments. This is a great opportunity to talk to students about the impact of financial choices when it comes to borrowing.
Financial Literacy when it comes to Independent Living skills building is an absolute necessity. This is a great way to incorporate it into your Vocational Training or Job Exploration class all while talking about Transition Plans and what real options you may have in the post-secondary! AND since you are also working on basic math skills, budgeting, and money management… this is a win, win, win!
Who Benefits from this Product:
If you are a teacher who is working in an Autism Unit with Special Education students, you will love this activity! It allows you to review job skills with the job inventory, work with budgets, and talk about the impact of personal choices on your money. PLUS it is reusable!
Download the PREVIEW file to see more about the printable… then purchase the full activity today and work smarter, not harder! PLUS, you can see and read more at https://www.noodlenook.net/vocational-and-transition-needs-of-sped-student and get a free lesson plan document too!
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This resource was created by Ayodele Jones © 2019. All rights reserved by authors. The materials in this unit were distributed and intended for single use only. The purchaser may reproduce copies for students in your classroom for classroom use only. You may not share with other teachers in your building, district, or otherwise. Redistributing, editing, selling, or posting this item (or any part thereof) on the internet is strictly prohibited. Violations are subject to penalties of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Additional licenses can be purchased for multi-use at a discount. Please contact the author at ajones@noodlenook.net.
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