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 an iPad Air 2 for my 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.
With an iPad Air 2, I know my students could engage in better financial lessons that end with filming a commercial for their own products. I have a small video camera and other items in place, but having an iPad Air 2 would assist me with my unit. I have already recorded an app list for my center work. This would be in addition to my other lessons. I would use both in centers.
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 and 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 and financial literacy skills go hand in hand. Using an iPad Air 2, I'd download free money apps. This Ipad Air 2 would reinforce money skills and my students would create ads on the Ipad too. The iPad Air 2 would be in an economics center during this financial literacy unit. The other activity would be creating a business and advertising it. Students could design a sign on the iPad to advertise their business with a logo, or catch phrase, etc. The culminating activity would be creating the product and filming a commercial. Together, these activities would create one powerful economics 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 money and Ipad center become a reality. Will you help my 4th graders understand the importance of money and survival in the real world?
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