I’ve just seen an incredible film called, God Grew Tired of Us, which is a documentary of 4 Sudanese men who, when they were children, fled Sudan’s civil war and spent the next 10 years in a UN refugee camp. The film can highlight many things to our students.
The incredible/horrific circumstances that children endured, [...]
Last year by the end of the class, Financial Concepts, I had students completing a very complex worksheet that had them track medical expenses across a whole year. They had to keep track of their total out of pocket expenses, keep track of when they had met a deductible, and calculate their co-pays. Sounds like [...]
When I taught Com. Explore, I wanted to make sure students learned multiple ways to access resources in the community. By the end of the course, one of the main projects was for each student to create a personal phone book or resource book that was filled with important phone numbers, and/or websites specific to [...]
If you are teaching Financial Concepts, here are a few assignments to consider using.When teaching credit card literacy, I used several old credit card bills of mine for students to use as they practiced reading the bill. The point was to understand different lay-outs of various bills. All personal information was blacked-out and the names ANN, [...]
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