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Lesson 4: Back to School Lesson PlanLesson 4: Back to School Lesson Plan
Publisher
Federal Reserve Bank
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7th - 12th
Subjects
Math
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4 days
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Lesson 4: Back to School

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This Lesson 4: Back to School lesson plan also includes:
  • Lesson 4: Back to School
  • SMART Board Lesson
  • Lesson 4: Back to School
  • Narrated Presentation
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Reference Guide
  • Financial Trivia
  • Financial Trivia Questions and Answers
  • Infographic: Human Capital
  • Infographic: Why Budget?
  • Infographic: Saving and Investing
  • Lesson 4: Back to School (.html)
  • PowerPoint presentation to accompany lesson procedures for Lesson 4 Part 1
  • Lesson procedures for Lesson 4 Part 2
  • PowerPoint presentation to accompany lesson procedures for Lesson 4 Part 2
  • Lesson procedures for Lesson 4 Part 3a
  • PowerPoint presentation to accompany lesson procedures for Lesson 4 Part 3a
  • Part 3b Expense Tracking extension activity
  • Infographic: What is Human Capital?
  • Lesson procedures for Lesson 4 Part 4
  • PowerPoint presentation to accompany lesson procedures for Lesson 4 Part 4
  • Infographic: Why should you save and invest?
  • Test Your Knowledge interactive
  • Supplemental Activity: Financial Trivia: Procedures
  • Supplemental Activity: Financial Trivia: Q&A interactive
  • Katrina's Classroom: Part 4 - Back to School
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Based on your current level of human capital, how long would it take you to earn $1,000,000? What about your potential human capital? Learners explore the importance of education and experience when entering the workforce, and compare their ability to earn a living now versus in the future.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

personal finance, hurricane katrina, natural disasters, consumer finance, finance, economics, financial literacy, financial crises, budgeting, career goals, the unemployment rate, human capital, interest rates, loans, banking

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Connect to a unit on career planning and readiness
  • Have learners complete the first few steps of the lesson at home to assess their current human capital

Classroom Considerations

  • This lesson in separated into four parts; find parts Two, Three, and Four in the Included Materials
  • Requires five to seven 45-minute periods to complete the lesson
  • Instruction comes in Smart Board and Powerpoint formats; the information presented is the same
  • The final part of a four-section economics unit

Pros

  • Includes worksheets, links to videos, presentations, and additional activities to reinforce understanding
  • Addresses applicable, real-life skills

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.7.1 RI.7.7 RI.8.1 RI.8.7 RI.9-10.1 RI.9-10.7 RI.11-12.1 RI.11-12.7 W.7.4 W.7.8 W.7.9.a W.8.4 W.8.8 W.8.9.a W.9-10.4 W.9-10.8 W.9-10.9.a W.11-12.4 W.11-12.8 W.11-12.9.a SL.7.1.a SL.7.4 SL.8.1.a SL.8.4 SL.9-10.1.a SL.9-10.4 SL.11-12.1.a SL.11-12.4

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