My students need various books about various careers, two laptops, a checkbook math workbook, journals, and two Educational Checks and Balances Classroom Sets.
$1,845 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
Financial literacy is the ability to understand how money works in the world: how someone manages to earn and manage it.
More specifically, it refers to the set of skills and knowledge that allows an individual to make informed and effective decisions with all of their financial resources.
I want my fourth grade students to begin thinking about the necessary skills they will need to have when they become adults in order to make the correct decisions with their financial resources. My students are eager learners who enjoy math, reading, and using technology. My project will begin with a lesson from PWC's Earn Your Future Curriculum (Financial Literacy: Income and Careers). My students will learn the difference between a job and career. I want to encourage all my students to research a career of their choice. This is why I am requesting several books about careers such as veterinarians, police, teachers, etc. I am requesting two laptops in order for my students to go to kids.gov and research various jobs/careers that are not in the books I have chosen.
My Project
This webpage has a list of government jobs, science jobs, and a-z list of more jobs. It includes various videos as well. They will also research the income that each career might give them. They will be asked to pretend they have grown up and actually have the career of their choice. I am requesting composition journals, in order for them to write daily journal entries in which they imagine themselves grown up with the job of their choice. The Checks and Balances Classroom Sets has 24 lessons that cover budgeting to payment options - even good and bad surprises in simulated real-life situations. It includes students checkbooks, credit cards, deposit slips, surprise cards, reproducibles and a teacher's guide. Since my students will have an idea of their income in their job choice, I will give them daily scenarios in which they have expenses and will need to balance their checkbooks.
I will use the Checkbook Math Workbook to teach them about writing checks before starting this project.
This project is so important because it will help my students become financially literate by also teaching them how basic financial products (bank accounts, credit cards, mortgages, and insurance) work. This project will combine math, literacy, writing, classroom discussions/conversations, and critical thinking. My students will learn how money is earned and how it can be managed.
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