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Group 6 Project
Dr. Johnston
MEDT 7465
November 2017
Group Members:
Tammy Hotchkiss
Gerri Langley
Shervon Lewis
Website: https://7465dlrgroup.weebly.com
Topic: Social Studies - Economic Understandings
Establishing a Household Budget
Standard: SS4E2 The student will identify the elements of a personal budget (income,
expenditures, and savings) and explain why personal spending and saving decisions
are important.
AASL Standard
1.1.1 Follow an inquiry-based process in seeking knowledge in curricular subjects, and
make the real-world connection for using this process in own life.
1.1.2 Use prior and background knowledge as context for new learning.
2.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to analyze and organize information.
2.1.6 Use the writing process, media and visual literacy, and technology skills to create
products that express new understandings.
Learning Objectives:
1. Students will research and determine a career based on their likes and
interests.
2. Student will gather data from a real-world experience on the financial needs of
a family.
3. Student will determine budget based on the needs of their career choice.
4. Students will create a savings plan.
5. Students will calculate income and expenses.
6. Student will create a shopping list based on the specified budget requirements.
Lesson Implementation:
100 % Online Course
Modules:
Module 1: Introduction to information
By: Shervon Lewis
Application: BrainPop Jr.
Focus: Video used to check for background knowledge.
Module 3: Budget
By: Gerri Langley
Application: Coggle
Focus: Create a budget Based on career chosen in Module 2.
Module 4: Spending
By: Tammy Hotchkiss
Application: Out of Milk
Focus: Making a real-world connection on spending within a budget.
Module 6: Assessment
By: Gerri Langley
Application: Flipgrid
Focus: The teacher will assess if the students have learned the elements of
saving money.
Course Outline:
Home Page:
https://7465dlrgroup.weebly.com
Contains standards and learning objectives.
Module 1:
https://7465dlrgroup.weebly.com/module-1.html
Introduction to Information
By: Shervon Lewis
Digital Media BrainPop Jr. is an animated site for kids to learn covering
Resource: various topics including Social Studies.
Module 2:
https://7465dlrgroup.weebly.com/module-2.html
Career Choice
By: Tammy Hotchkiss
Module Objective: Students will research and determine a career based on their
likes and interests.
Digital Media Storybird book using personalization principle with humor that
Resource: students can relate to when determining their career choice.
YouTube videos made by Kids.gov demonstrating various
careers and their job descriptions.
Bureau of Labor and Statistics used to assist students in
selecting a career relevant to their personal likes and interests.
Google Forms will be used for the assessment portion of this
module.
Students will read a book that will prompt them to start engaging
the topic of career choice.
Student will then choose two career videos that are relevant to
gain an idea about what careers might interest them. They will
choose from videos where real people are explaining their
careers such as: aerospace engineer, marine biologist,
veterinarian, developer, fine arts specialist, brain scientist, army
dentist, archeologist, marine pilot.
Finally, the student will create his or her own printable resume for
that career.
Module 3:
https://7465dlrgroup.weebly.com/module-3.html
Budget
By: Gerri Langley
Module Objective: Students will create a budget based on the career he or she
chose.
Practice or Using Coggle (coggle.it), students will gather recorded data and
Assessment: establish what they will need to replicate and improve their
current household need. They can be as detailed as they want.
The concept map should include real world scenarios such as:
Mortgage/Rent
Utilities
Groceries
Vehicle
Health Insurance
Module 4:
https://7465dlrgroup.weebly.com/module-4.html
Spending
By: Tammy Hotchkiss
Digital Media Out of Milk will be used to create a shopping list for the grocery
Resource: store with pricing and quantity.
YouTube video will demonstrate the proper use of the Out of
Milk Application.
iMovie will be used to create the video.
Google Forms will be used for the assessment portion of this
module.
Student will observe a video on the steps to take to use the Out
of Milk application.
Module Objective: Students are to learn how to structurally manage income and
expenses to create their household budget. Given the information
theyve collected in the previous modules, students are to create
a budget for a household and effectively manage it. Students will
collaborate as a group to determine the information added to the
budget.
Digital Media Flipgrid The teacher will post a video and the students will post
Resource: a video response back on what he or she learned.
Practice or The students will be able to tell the teacher what they identified
Assessment: when looking at personal budgets and why personal spending
and saving decisions are important. The students will reply to the
teachers Flipgrid on what he or she learned from budgeting and
saving. This will be used to assess the student.
https://flipgrid.com/7f48df
All of these lessons would then lead into a more in-depth lesson
on check registries, etc. Those are skills taught in the 5th grade.
Lesson Plan:
https://7465dlrgroup.weebly.com/lesson-plan.html
(each module was completed by the individual group member)
Scribd https://www.scribd.com/upload-
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Weebly https://www.weebly.com
YouTube https://www.youtube.com
Storybird https://storybird.com
Coggle https://coggle.it
Flipgrid https://info.flipgrid.com
iMovie https://www.apple.com/imovie/