UNIT PLANNER

Pre-service Teacher name: Highlight planning process: Date:

Tia Langston Planned Independently 11.06.19
Year level/ age range & number of students:
Year 5 – 22 students
Unit title:
Finance – Money and budgeting
Learning area and Strands:
Mathematics
Create simple financial plans (ACMNA106).

General capabilities consideration:

Critical and creative thinking
Numeracy

Student diversity consideration: students with disability, gifted and talented students, students for whom EAL/D
Learning intentions: Success criteria for students:
Students will be learning about how to make the Students will be able to budget accordingly for an
most out of money through budgeting. event.

Formative assessment: Summative assessment:

Students work will be marked throughout the unit to Students will be completing an end of topic test on
ensure they are keeping up with the learning finance and will be submitting a budgeting
requirements and to see their increase in assignment on spending a day at an amusement
knowledge. park with $100 while also including food breaks and
souvenirs.
Range of teaching strategies: preparation/ organisation/ resources:
(What range of teaching strategies will I use and so what resources will I need for the students to engage in the activity? Where
will I access the resources from?)
Differentiation: (Are there any students that I need to personalise the activity for)
This has been addressed based on learning level groups.

Specific student needs: learning/ behaviour Adjustment and considerations

There will be differentiation used for the difficulty of Students will be placed into mathematic learning
tasks being appropriate for the learning group the groups, based on their learning levels from previous
students are in (some students may be allowed to lessons and the pre-test results.
have a smaller budget of $75 or even $50 to make it
simpler). Some students may be extended through
an extension activity.

UNIT TIMETABLE
(Weekly overview – brief detail only – use to determine time-frame etc)
WEEK BEG. MON TUES WED THURS FRI

Week 5

Week 6 Student free

day
Week 7 Public holiday 1. PK & pre 2. Power point and Excursion
test (mini how much is my
lesson) name worth game

Week 8 3. day at 4. day at 5. day at leisure 6. Final post test Finished

leisure land leisure land land & finishing
budgeting task

SEQUENCE OF LESSONS/ LEARNING EXPERIENCES

Lesson Main Check for

sequence Learning Experiences Resources learning/
Focus Assessment
Mental maths. Pre-test sheet Formative:
1
Introduce students to the topic of money, ask them to label Pre-test (PK)
PK all the different notes and coins while recording them on the
board.
(week 7 – L3)
Erase the board and then administer the pre-test.
Lesson evaluation:

Due to the unexpected grammar activity that my mentor teacher administered this morning we only had time to
complete the pre-test. However, all students who were here got their tests completed.

2 Mental maths

(week 7 – L4&5) Finance maths Formative:

Introduce students to the Power point on the amounts of Mini Note taking of
money paid and the change they will receive. Show students whiteboards which students
how to work out the amounts of money shown, from picture struggle.
form, and then determine how much change to give. Have
students use the mini whiteboards to show which is the
correct answer and to use for working out. Formative:
How much my
marking the
Introduce students to the ‘how much is my name worth’ name is worth
name sheets.
game and scaffold how to complete the task, use my name as sheet.
an example, Miss Langston.

Lesson evaluation:
 3 Mental maths

(week 8 – L4&5) Maths – finance Formative:

Introduce students to the ‘A day at Leisure Land’ task. A day at Observations

leisure land
Walk students through how they will need to budget and how
sheets
to determine how much money they will need versus how
much they have all up, $100. Suggest that students make a
large list of everything they want to do, even if it is multiples
of the same thing, and then circle a few that are most
important. This will help them keep within their budget.

Have students begin their planning on the brainstorming

template, they will work individually but can help their peers
if needed.

Lesson evaluation:

Mental maths

Mini lesson

Students can now begin their spending plan for the rides and Spending plans Formative:
4
entertainment, beginning with the most important choices
observations
(week 8 – L3) that were circled last lesson. Have students use a pencil so
they can make changes where necessary.

Once completed students can move on to the food, drink and

souvenirs plan.

Lesson evaluation:

Mental maths

Maths

5 Once the planning is completed, the students can fill in their Time table for Formative:
time table, showing each of their purchases in their allocated the day marking
(week 8 – L4&5) time slots. Remind students to check the time slots each ride budgeting task
has before assuming they are open. Ensure the students plan to keep
for the two rest breaks and what they are eating for both. students on
track.

Lesson evaluation:

Mental maths?? Summative:

Maths – final post test Financial test Marking

students final
6
test.
(week 8 – L4)
Students can finish off their day at Leisure Land tasks.
Marking
students
leisure land.
Lesson evaluation:

EVALUATION & REFLECTION: How effective was this unit?

Students

Level of Engagement
low high
Challenge for students
low high
Achievement/progress towards goals
low high
All learners catered for
no yes

Future teaching suggestions: What information did this unit provide about the future teaching/learning needs of these
students?

Assessment
difficult to carry out easy to carry out
allowed for range of student
unrelated to outcomes responses

Student feedback:

Supervising Teacher feedback:

Pre-service teacher evaluation: If you were to use this unit again, what changes would you make?
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Name: Have they It is as close Have they Was the Did they use Total
followed the to $100 planned? timetable working out to
conditions? without completed get a correct
going over? accurately? amount?
Decklan
Mia
Annabel
Will
Ella
Matthew
Conner
Madison
Addison
Isla
Claire
Oskar
Marley
Josh O.
Gabi
Patrick
Joshua S.
Isabel
Indiah
Hannah
Torge
Emily