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=Ebony Rozzell's Page - Project Idea - Progress and Information= List your ideas here. Then as you narrow down your final idea(s) you will begin filling out the form below the comment section.


 * || Ideas for your Math/Technology Open ended Project .................................................................................................................................................................. ||
 * 1 || Students will visiti dictionary.com to look up a list of budjeting/finance vocabulary words. ||
 * 2 || Students will visit the jumpstart.org web site and answer the reality check questions to decide what type of lifestyle they want to have after graduating high school and see what salary they will need to make to support that lifestyle. Students will research one of the job suggestions given by the and go to columbusjobs.com to see if there is a market for the job they have selected here in this area. Students will then post about their findings on a class discussion thread on It's Learning. ||
 * 3 || Students will then be given a signing bonus and a budget from the company (from the job selected above) to buy a week's worth of clothing, as well as supplies for their office. They will also be given a calculator and mock checkbook and ledger to keep track of the purchases they make as they do some comparison shopping online. Following the activity, students will electronically answer questions about their experience on It's Learrning. ||


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 * Sue Becker || I will make a comment on each and everyone of your ideas. I am hopeful that many of you will also comment on each others work as well. Collaboration is a 21st Century Skill and can be very helpful to everyone! ||
 * Sue Becker || Ebony you have a good project idea. I seems like you have done the traditional style of teaching in the past with this project and I am happy you are branching out to expand this to include more 21st century skills. Good!! ||

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 * Name: ** Ebony Rozzelle


 * School: ** Waggoner Road Junior High


 * Grade Level and Class: ** 7th and 8th math and functional math (all special education)

I'd like to implement this lesson by the end of the school year.
 * Estimated time for development and implementation (if possible): **

Students will learn the importance of budgeting and how to write checks and balance a checkbook. Students will also make connection between the lifestyle they'd like to live and the financial requirements to do so.
 * Project Goal(s) and Objectives: **


 * Content Objectives **
 * look up and become familiar with personal finance vocabulary
 * balance a checkbook
 * make connection between desired lifestyle and required income
 * calculate percentages
 * add positive and negative numbers

Students will look up finacial/budgeting terms on dictionary.com to become familiar with vocabulary they will encounter during the unit. Students will go to jumpstart.org to answer a quwstionaire about the lifestyle they'd like to live as an adult. From there they will take the information on the income reuired to have that lifestyle and the job recommendations given by the website and search area classifieds (columbusjobs.com) to find if there is a demand for that job in the area and what the starting pay will be. Students will discuss their findings on the It's Learning classroom discussion thread. Students will then be given a budget (a signing bonus and company supply budget) to buy a week's worth of appropriate attire, and supplies they will need for their job (including lunch, technology, office supplies, a desk and chair). Students will use the internet to comparison shop and write checks (including sales tax) to make their purchases. Students will keep track of their spending using their checkbook register and use the information from their register to make a pie chart using Word that displays their spending. Instruction and models will be given via power point presentation. At the conclusion of the activity, students will answer questions about their experince on the It's Learning website.
 * Description of the Project: **


 * Considerations **
 * Student Learning Outcomes; how to balance a checkbook, common financial terms, connecting desired lifestyle with required income, the importance of budgeting


 * Mathematical Content: adding and subtracting negative numbers, managing personal finances, calculating percentages, creating graphs/charts to display data


 * Pedagogical Considerations: Activities will be modeled by staff. Staff will also guides students through each stop of the project. Students will begin lesson with vocabulary to become familiar with terms they will see during the lesson.Students will also give feedback on the assignment and describe their experience in their own words once the unit is completed.


 * Technology Chosen and Why: ** classroom computers, calculators, have been chosen because they are the same pieces of technology that students have available to them in real world situations. A power point presentation will be used to model each step for students and to introduce the assignment.

I will not request any additional support from the district.
 * Instructional and/or Technical Support You will Request from District Staff: **
 * Implementation Timeline (if appropriate) **


 * Project Submission Information should be updated as needed. **

After you have begun to implement your project, please submit revisions here. Use this set of short questions to help guide you in your reporting about your progress. These include:


 * TPACK consideration- This is a project that I would normally do with the use of the Sunday paper, and I'd have students construct their pie charts using colored pencils and paper . The addition of tecnology gives my students a larger selction of places to to do their "shopping", It also gives me an idea of what the students got f r om the lesson because they get the opportunity to tell me in their own words.


 * 21st Century skill development - I need to become more familiar with using Word to construct pie charts


 * Differentiation, digital natives or other course concepts- Students will be guided through each activity by staff and the use of technology will be modeled to aid with student understanding and development of skills.


 * Alignment with Math objectives- Students will have to calculate percentages to determine sales tax and complete their pie chart. Students will also have to add negative and positve numbers to balance their checkbooks.
 * Transformative evidence of how this may or may not be working - I will use comments and submissions left by students on the discussion thread to determine how the lessson is working.


 * Reasoning for your choice of technology- The technologies I've chosen are all availible and accessible to my students and are the same tools they would use in the real world. The w bsites we will be using are free of charge.