Lesson Plan

Transmedia Project
Dr. Johnston MEDT 7465
December 2, 2016
Group Members:
Shonia Brown
Jill Harding
Curry Prothro
Amanda Sinapiades
Stephanie Stanberry
Website: http://whybudget.weebly.com/

Topic: Economics - Budgeting

Standard: SSEPF1 The student will apply rational decision making to personal spending
and saving choices.
a. Explain that people respond to positive and negative incentives in predictable ways.
b. Use a rational decision making model to select one option over another.
c. Create a savings or financial investment plan for a future goal.
Audience - High school students
Learning Objectives:
1. Students will demonstrate the understanding of the term budget through the development of a
preliminary personal budget.
2. Students will learn how incentives drive them to make the decisions that will best benefit them
and how that affects how they spend their money.
3. Students will learn how to set goals that will help them achieve long term financial success
instead of short term rewards.
4. Students will demonstrate how to increase their assets through employment and reduce their
liabilities by spending less.
5. Students will explain and demonstrate how they can make logical decisions to achieve long
term financial success.
Lesson Implementation:
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Transmedia Project
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December 2, 2016

Modules
Module 1: Pre-Lesson Survey, Define - What is a budget?, Preliminary Budget-Making
Module 2: Positive and Negative Incentives
Module 3: Rational Decision Making
Module 4: Savings/Investment plan making
Course Outline
Homepage
http://whybudget.weebly.com/
(Curry and Jill)

Module 1: What is a budget?

http://whybudget.weebly.com/module-1.html
(Curry and Jill)
Module
Objective

Students will demonstrate the understanding of the term budget through the
development of a preliminary personal budget.

Digital Media
Resource

Google forms - Student survey - What is a budget?

Popplet Concept Map

Practice or
Assessment

Practice: Fill out a monthly budget using PDF,

http://www.moneyandstuff.info/pdfs/SampleBudgetforTeens.pdf.

Module 2: Incentives and Budgeting

http://whybudget.weebly.com/module-2.html
(Amanda)
Module
Objective

Students will learn how incentives drive them to make the decisions that will best
benefit them and how that affects how they spend their money.
Students will learn how to set goals that will help them achieve long-term financial
success instead of short-term rewards.
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Digital Media
Resources

Incentives and Opportunity Cost Video

Cobra Effect Mini Comic via Pixton
Incentives Vid Quiz via QuizStar

Practice or
Assessment

Practice:
Students will follow the steps listed on the Module 2 page of the Weebly site,
beginning with Part 1: Incentives in order to complete the first half of the Module
dealing with incentives and how they cause people to act in predictable ways.
In Part 2: Budgeting, students will determine what kind of spenders they are based on
their wants, needs, and the choices they make and then choose a career for which to
create their first budget. The activities listed in the module are pre-activities for the
budget lesson (Module 2 of Financial Football - Budgets Take Balance) that is to be
delivered by the instructor in real time the day after the first half of the module is
completed.
Assessment:
Assessment for Part 1: Incentives Students will complete a quiz to test over the knowledge they gained by watching the
incentives video.
ProProfs Incentives Quiz:
https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=mtc2nji4mapfwe
The student will utilize a comic strip format to exhibit knowledge of incentives.
Project requires students to show an example of people responding to incentives by
making the best choice that benefits them by including, type of incentive, the
opportunity cost, and the rationale for why the choice made was the best choice.
Pixton site: https://www.pixton.com/
Assessment for Part 2: Budgeting After completion of Module 2: Budgets Take Balance of Financial Football, students
will submit the Quiz and Discussion worksheets to teacher for evaluation.
Financial Football Lesson Plan (Pro):
http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/games/trainingcamp/ff/inc/lang/en/modules/we
b_modules/PRO.pdf
*Module 2 begins on Page 17 of the pdf.

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Transmedia Project
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December 2, 2016

Module 3: Rational Decision Making Model

(Shonia)
http://whybudget.weebly.com/module-3.html
Module
Objective

Students will demonstrate how to increase their assets through employment and
reduce their liabilities by spending less.

Digital Media
Resource

Infographic for Rational Decision Making Model

Podcast (Budgets & Sense with the Budget Wiz)
PowToon Animated Cartoon (The Twins Get a Car)

Practice or
Assessment

Practice:
The Mall Shopping Exercise - Classroom Group Assignment
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qs36co6a8oj8nvc/Rational%20Decision%20Making%2
0Practice.docx?dl=0
Assessment:
Road Trip to Savings Game - This online game will test the savings and spending
skills of students Click Link:
http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/games/road_trip/road_trip.html?width=600&h
eight=420

Module 4: Savings and Investment Plan

(Stephanie)
Module
Objective

Students will explain and demonstrate how they can make logical decisions to
achieve long-term financial success.

Digital Media
Resource

Word Cloud depicting key words associated with budget.

YouTube video showing step by step on creating a budget.
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Infographic with tips on how to create a budget

Practice or
Assessment

Students will create their own budget at the end of the module. They will then
share with a peer for feedback.
Lesson Plan
http://whybudget.weebly.com/lesson-plan.html
(All Group Members)
Upload to Website (Curry)

Digital Media Tools Utilized:

Weebly: https://www.weebly.com/
Google Docs: https://www.google.com/docs/about/
Pixton: https://www.pixton.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/
ProProfs: http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/
Google Forms https://www.google.com/forms/about/
Popplet http://popplet.com/app/#/demo
Powtoon: http://www.powtoon.com/
Techsmith Camtasia and Snagit
Pond5: https://www.pond5.com/
Piktochart: https://piktochart.com/
Tagual Word Cloud: https://tagul.com/
Foundation for Teaching Economics: http://www.fte.org/?s=decision+making
Road Trip to Savings:
http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/games/road_trip/road_trip.html?width=600&height=420