With the song lyrics, "Mo-ney, money, money.. mo-ney" dancing in my head, I want to offer a powerful economics unit. My goal is to mesh real world lessons tied to entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills. I have the other items, but I am missing a computer for 1 financial literacy center.
I am currently a 4th-grade team teacher with close to two decades of experience.
At this time, I teach Science, Social Studies, and Math at a Pre K-5th grade school. My school has 544 students. Both my students and I are drawn toward creative projects and we love to create powerful, curriculum-based projects. As the teacher, I love incorporating more with making commercials and dealing with economics. As a Social Studies teacher, I teach financial literacy lessons annually. My students need a new laptop to help with my lessons and videos we will produce.
My Project
I am a firm believer in hands-on manipulative lessons for economics. I created a plan of action. First, my students would create & advertise a chosen business while learning the meaning of the words entrepreneur, advertise, profit, and loss. My goal is for my students to understand how to develop a business and then advertise it. It is critical for them to personally experience how entrepreneurship & financial literacy skills go hand in hand. Using the new laptop and video equipment, my students would create a video. This new laptop would help reinforce money skills and my students would create ads on it, too. The laptop would be used in an economics center during this financial literacy unit. The other activity would be creating a business and advertising it. Students could use the laptop to design a sign to advertise their business with a logo, or catch phrase, etc. The culminating activity would be creating the product and commercial. Together, these activities would create a powerful unit.
With the song lyrics, "Mo-ney, money, money... mo-ney" dancing in my head, I want my students to understand the importance of financial literacy in our world.
Money is a subject that students show an interest in because it is needed. Together, you can help with this quest to enrich financial literacy and the importance of counting money. "You" are the key to make this center become a reality. Will you help my class understand the importance of money and survival in the real world?
2016 Newest Dell Inspiron 17.3" Laptop, 6th Gen Intel Skylake Core i7-6500U up to 3.1GHz, Full HD (1920x1080) Display, 8GB RAM, AMD Radeon R5 Graphics, 1TB HDD, DVD Drive, Windows 7/10 Professional
• Amazon Business
$750.00
1
$750.00
Logitech M510 Wireless Mouse
• Amazon Business
$19.99
1
$19.99
Materials cost
$769.99
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$67.37
3rd party payment processing fee
$11.55
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$878.91
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$155.10
Total project goal
$1,034.01
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