Lesson Plan

Date: Wed March 2

Subject: Health
Topic: March Family Budget Assignment

Grade: 9

Materials: Worksheet (2), Computers/internet access, printer access.

Stage 1- Desired Results you may use student friendly language

What do they need to understand, know, and/or able to do?
Be able to make a budget for the month of March dependent on how much money a
starting career in the occupation of their choice, spouses salary, and amount of kids
they have.
Outcome(s): 9.1 - Develop informed conclusions about the importance of leadership
skills and health promotion in healthy decision making.

PGP Goals:
Curricular 3: Demonstrates the capacity to engage in program planning to shape 'lived
curriculum' that brings learner needs, subject matter, and contextual variables together
in developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive and meaningful ways.

Stage 2- Assessment
Assessment FOR Learning (formative) Assess the students during the learning to help
determine next steps.
Walk around, help guide students through the steps of figuring out a mortgage/car
payments etc. Explain steps in group and individual settings.

Assessment OF Learning (summative) Assess the students after learning to evaluate

what they have learned.
Spread-sheet filled in correctly with evidence printed off with it ex/ house real estate
information, car photo and price.

Stage 3- Learning Plan

Motivational/Anticipatory Set (introducing topic while engaging the students)
Starting with the question: How many of you wish school taught you something
applicable to life? Well this assignment will be one of the most life applicable you take.

Main Procedures/Strategies:
Find a career by taking a career quiz, choose a piece of paper out of a hat (piece of
paper includes: Spouse, income of spouse, and number of children), Fill in a spread
sheet that determines your families living expenses and savings for the month of March

Closing of lesson:
Ask students to write a reflection statement on their biggest struggles in the assignment
and two things they learnt from the assignment.

Personal Reflection: I thought this lesson went well, I got a lot of questions throughout the
research time of the project which tells me that I should have gone over more information

in the larger group setting. With that being said this particular class was loud and talking
throughout much of the explanation so it might have been best to try and think of a
different way to present the information. Perhaps making a video of me explaining would
quiet the chatter. This is a fun assignment and you could tell the kids were really getting
into it as a lot of them went home and asked a lot of questions from their parents and
came back with their responses.

MARCH FAMILY BUDGET ASSIGNMENT

Please read the following scenario. You will need to use the Internet to find some of the information, but you
can also ask your parents for information, or your teachers.
You are currently living in Saskatoon or Warman.
You are:

Married

You have girls, ages

Divorced
&

; and

boys, ages

&

You must name your spouse and children in the blanks below:
Spouse
Child #1:

Child #2:

Child #3:

Child #4:

You are responsible for creating a monthly budget for your family for the month of March 2016. Your budget
must be realistic and you must live within your means. Please create a spreadsheet that reflects your
familys monthly income and expenditures with the following information:
Your occupation is:
Annual Salary
Salary

Deductions
X 0.70 =

Divide by 12
/12

Monthly Income

Your spouses occupation, if applicable:

If you are divorced, you have custody of the children and your monthly child support is:
1. Rent/Mortgage Payment Find a house you would like to buy or an apartment you would like to rent
and figure out the mortgage payment or rent payment:
2. If your rent/mortgage doesnt include garbage pickup, water, parking fees, gas, heating, and lights,
please determine your monthly costs for these expenses.
3. You will need house/renters insurance for the contents of your living space.
House: $200/month
Renters: $60/month
4. Please determine your monthly telephone expenses. (Print any information that supports your
findings.)
5. Please determine your monthly cable expenses. (Print any information that supports your findings.)
6. Please determine your monthly internet expenses. (Print any information that supports your findings.)

*For #4-6, use the internet to search different providers.

7. Please determine your automobile expenses:
a. Monthly payment including interest:
b. Insurance: $100/month
c. Routine maintenance: $50/month
d. Gas:
8. Calculate your monthly entertainment expenses. Please find and print at least two family
entertainment venues in your city. Calculate the monthly cost for your family to attend those events.
9. Clothing expenses: Determine the monthly clothing expense for your family. Break down the items
you will purchase for each family member. It is not an option to purchase nothing. Remember, if you
have kids, they will need spring clothes because they will have outgrown last years selection.
10. Food expenses: Determine the monthly food expenses for your family.
11. Childcare expenses: Find and print the monthly childcare expenses for your family. Even if your
children are school aged, you must budget for after school care.
12. Household items ie. Toilet paper, shampoo, deodorant, cleaner, newspaper, etc. Please determine
your monthly expenses for household items.
13. Personal Care: haircuts, manicure, etc. Please breakdown these expenses and calculate your
familys total monthly expenses.
14. Birthdays/St. Patricks Day & Easter: You must give your children Easter gifts. If any of your
friends/relatives have a March birthday, you must also purchase a gift for them. Please find and print
the gifts you will be giving and calculate your monthly expense.
15. Savings: The remainder of your income after all expenses are paid will go into a savings account.
Please indicate the amount you will put in your savings account, monthly.

MARCH FAMILY BUDGET ASSIGNMENT

Student
Name:

Details
Your Monthly Income
Spouse's Monthly Income
Rent/Mortgage
Electricity
Natural Gas
Property Taxes
Parking Fees
Insurance
Telephone Expenses
Cable/Television Expenses
Internet Expenses
Car Payment
Car Insurance
Car Maintenance
Gas Expense
Entertainment #1:
Entertainment #2:

Proof

Total Remaining Balance to be put into

Savings

Income

Expense

Balance