Digital Lifeskills: webCitizen.me

7th Grade:  Financial Literacy

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Unit 1:  Getting to Know You

  1. Digital Life Skills:  What Are They (pdf form)
  2. Digital Life Skills I Use (pdf form)
  3. What I Have, Would Like to Learn, Use, What I Need (pdf form)
  4. Know, Want to Learn, Learned (KWL) (pdf form)
  5. How to Fill a PDF on a Chromebook (video, 1:40)
  6. Mr. Breitsprecher's QWERY Keyboard Song

Writing With Keyboard Self-Check.  BIT classes will use a Chromebook.  Please bring your Chromebook charged and have your charger available each day.

Good Posture Matters

How Fast Can You Type for 3 Minutes?
BE SURE TO SELECT 3 MINUTE TIMED TYPING TEST!

Forces on the neck increase the more we tilt our headClick to Enlarge

 Take a Break, Rotate Your Neck, and Look Up

Each Day, 2 of the links below will be assigned.  Do each one-at-a-time.  They will open in a new tab.  Please LEAVE EACH TAB OPEN.  When the pair is complete, please open ANOTHER TAB and choose an appropriate keying game.

  1. Keying Basic Self-Check
  2. Keyboarding Posture & Technique Self-Check
  3. Identify the Correct Finger Self-Check
  4. Proper Keyboarding Technique Self-Check
  5. Keying Egonomics Self-Check
  6. Home Row Keys: Keyboarding Skills Quiz!
  7. Keying Vocabulary Self-Check
  8. Keying Trivia Self-Check

Unit 2:  What is Financial Literacy
  1. What is Financial Literacy
  2. Lack of financial literacy cost 15% of adults at least $10,000 in 2022
  3. Financial literacy: 5 basic concepts to know
  4. Identifying Needs vs. Wants
  5. The Decision-Making Process
  6. SMART Goals
  7. Summative Assessment

Unit 3:  Goal Setting
  1. Goal Setting
  2. Financial Goals for Students: How and Why to Set Them  (Forbes)
  3. How to Set and Achieve Financial Goals (InCharge)
  4. How to Set Financial Goals (NerdWallet)
  5. How to Set Financial Goals: 6 Steps (Ramsey Solutions)
  6. Setting Financial Goals And Achieving Them (Forbes)

Unit 4  Identifying Needs vs Wants
  1. Needs vr Wants
  2. Oppoturnity Costs

Unit 5:  Lifecycle of Financial Planning
  1. Wealth Protect
  2. Wealth Accumulation
  3. Wealth Distribution

Summative Assessment 1

Unit 6:  Savings vrs Investing

 

Unit 7:  Savings:  Banks & Depository Instutions

 

Unit 8:  Investing
  1. How the Stock Market Works
  2. Selecting
  3. Stocks
  4. Coca-Cola vs PepsiCo Stocks
  5. Investing in Bonds

Summative Assessment 2

Unit 9:  Personal Budgeting

  1. How to Make a Budget in 5 Steps (video, 5:25)
  2. Make a Personal Budget in 5 Steps (.pdf)
  3. Google Sheets Cheat Sheet (.pdf)
  4. Personal Budget Google Sheets Project (.pdf)
  5. Google Sheets FILL Handle Project (.pdf)
  6. Personal Budget for Adults (.pdf)
  7. Personal Budget for Teens (.pdf)

Unit 10:  Buyer Beware:  Caveat Emptor
  1. How to Spot a Fake $20 Bill (video, 11:09)
  2. Fast Food Advertisements vs. Reality Experiment (video, 3:34)
  3. Decision Process Chart (.pdf)
  4. Shopping Savvy (.pdf)
  5. Hunger Attacks (.pdf)
  6. Comparison Shopping Note Taking Guide
  7. Comparison Shopping Splendor
  8. Identity Theft Risk Assessment Quiz
  9. Phishing Scams
  10. Privacy Please!
  11. Put It To The Test #1
  12. Put It To The Test #2
  13. Spam Scam Slam
  14. Using Our Comparison Shopping Process
  15. The Right Price
  16. Understanding Advertising
  17. Videos by UrAvgConsumer

Summative Assessment 3

Unit 4:  Business Simulations & Decision Making

Link to Lemonade StandLemonade Stand   Coffee Shop GameCoffee Shop

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Digital Life Skills resources & activities

More Fun Links

A.  Mr. Breitsprecher's Websites

  1. Mr. B's Guitar Music
  2. Library Media TV
  3. My LMC Web
  4. Video Kids
  5. My Biz Ed Web
  6. Club TNT:  Weekly Madison TV show, TVW, 11 am Saturdays

B.  Keying Skill Building Links

C. Magic Gopher.  Can this online media from the BBC read your mind?  (Explained HERE)

D.  Explore.org:  Live Animal Webcams

E.  Web Cams:  Including the world-famous Bear Cam!

F.  Virtual Tours

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