Awareness:
I was not aware of many of these teaching tools that were posted to D2L. I have used some of the rubrics and some of the search tools in my past classes.
Explore and Filter:
I explored all of the tools, weeding out the sites that were not working or had a cost associated with their use. I also filtered out the sites that were not age appropriate. My students are adults and many of the sites were specific to K-12.
Learning: I focused on three main sites -- Tech-nology - this site has a massive amount of links on a variety of subjects. I used the search box to narrow tools to ones about money, budgeting, and personal finance. Create a Graph - this site is very user friendly. I experimented with data from my son's science fair project to create a bar graph. Rubistar - this site assists teachers in creating rubrics for a variety of assessments. I experimented by creating a oral presentation rubric.
Application: Introduction:
More often than not when I ask my Personal Finance students if they have a budget, they reply that they do not. I created the following materials that will first help students understand the concept of a budget and then ask them to track their expenses for a full month. This information will then assist them in the creation of their own unique budget based on their current situation. I will also have my students enter in their monthly budget amounts by category in to an easy-to-use graphing website created by NCES Kids. Using their created pie charts and data, my students will orally present their budgets and will be graded according to a rubrics created using Rubistar.
Exploration Phase:
Instruct my students to view the three videos on Savings and budgeting and take notes of what they see. This will help them better understand what a budget is and why it is important to have a written plan of their income and expenses.
Source: Teach-nology Tools at http://teachers.teach-nology.com
Learning Phase:
Use the Daily Spending Diary Excel worksheet
they will track their daily expenses for the next month. They will need to do this contemporaneously so that they do not forget what they spent last week.
Application Phase:
Using the total spending amounts from the Excel spreadsheet, students will create an initial family budget. They will analyze their spending for the last month and create a pie chart of their budget
. Graphs will be created at http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph. This graph will be presented in class and their presentations will be graded per the rubric
I was not aware of many of these teaching tools that were posted to D2L. I have used some of the rubrics and some of the search tools in my past classes.
Explore and Filter:
I explored all of the tools, weeding out the sites that were not working or had a cost associated with their use. I also filtered out the sites that were not age appropriate. My students are adults and many of the sites were specific to K-12.
Learning: I focused on three main sites --
Tech-nology - this site has a massive amount of links on a variety of subjects. I used the search box to narrow tools to ones about money, budgeting, and personal finance.
Create a Graph - this site is very user friendly. I experimented with data from my son's science fair project to create a bar graph.
Rubistar - this site assists teachers in creating rubrics for a variety of assessments. I experimented by creating a oral presentation rubric.
Application:
Introduction:
More often than not when I ask my Personal Finance students if they have a budget, they reply that they do not. I created the following materials that will first help students understand the concept of a budget and then ask them to track their expenses for a full month. This information will then assist them in the creation of their own unique budget based on their current situation. I will also have my students enter in their monthly budget amounts by category in to an easy-to-use graphing website created by NCES Kids. Using their created pie charts and data, my students will orally present their budgets and will be graded according to a rubrics created using Rubistar.
Exploration Phase:
Instruct my students to view the three videos on Savings and budgeting and take notes of what they see. This will help them better understand what a budget is and why it is important to have a written plan of their income and expenses.
Source: Teach-nology Tools at http://teachers.teach-nology.com
Learning Phase:
Use the Daily Spending Diary Excel worksheet
Application Phase:
Using the total spending amounts from the Excel spreadsheet, students will create an initial family budget. They will analyze their spending for the last month and create a pie chart of their budget