Career Cruising

EQ - What matters to me when choosing a career pathway?

1. AP – Activator - Factors of Career Selection Races
2. Review Decision Making Matrix
3. Factors of Job Selection Quiz
4. Submit Quiz to the Personal Finance tray
5. Activator – Quote Analysis

“Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked.

'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat.

'I don't know,' Alice answered.

'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.”

EQ - How will managing personal finances impact your major life decisions?

1. TPS – What makes decision making so difficult?
2. Laptops - www.careercruising.com
3. Matchmaker Surveys
4. TOD - What are you hoping to learn during your career exploration?

Decision Matrix

EQ - How can I use Decision Matrix make a career decision?

1. Activator -  Planning a class trip
2. Introduction to the Decision Matrix (Teacher demo)
3. Small Group Practice
4. Splashdown – The characteristics of career selection
5. AP - Individual Practice - Create a decision matrix using the factors of careers selection
6. AP - TPS
1. List the 3 most important factors of career selection to you
2. Describe 2 factors that are not important to you
3. What makes your top choice the most important to you?
7. TOD – How can using the decision making matrix help you make a career selection?

Factors of Career Selection

EQ - What factors should be considered when choosing a career?

1. Activator -  The Starting Line (Soul Pancake)
2. Review Monetary Goal
• How many of you have included monetary goals in your “Starting Line” writing?
• Discussion Question - What makes these goals important to you?
3. Collaborative Pairs
• Brainstorm 4 ways to generate money
• Which way is the most common
• What is the difference between a job and a career?
4. Splashdown – Make a list of important factors when considering a career path? 
5. Class discussion – Factors of consideration when choosing a career
• *Handout – Factors to Consider in Career Selection
6. Rank ‘Em
7. Collaborative Pairs – Create a pneumonic device
8. Summarizer - Muddy Points Grab Bag 
9. Intro to Decision Making Matrix *Handout to homework*

 **Homework - Create an outline for a decision matrix using the factors to consider in career selection AND your personal rankings for each. **

Welcome to Personal Finance

EQ - What can I expect to gain from taking Personal Finance?

1. Activator:  Personal Finance BINGO
2. AP - Class Discussion related to terminology
3. TPS - Post-It Note Collage - Write 3 ways money affects you and the world 
4. TPS - Financial analysis of a day: How has money affected you today?
5. Class Discussion – Impact of education on income *Handout at end of discussion to reinforce concept
6. AP – Frayer Foldable: List and describe 3 impacts discussed in class that you believe to be the most important. In the final box, explain what the correlation between education and income is and what it means for you.
7. Introductions: Syllabus, Room Procedures, Grad. Project
8. Back of Index Card - 3 goals you have for this class
9. TOD: 3-2-1
• 3 topics you want to learn in this class
• 2 items you learned today
• 1 thing you already know from the BINGO card

Standards: 

15.6.12.A: Evaluate the impact of internal and external influences on financial decisions.

The 3 D's of Identity Theft

EQ - What are the 3 D's for identity theft?

1. Activator - Identity Theft Commercials
2. Intro to the 3 D's
3. Partnership Review
4. Quiz - Click Here
5. Unit Project Directions - See Below

Get ready to use your creative wizardry to create a commercial!

You will be working as a team to create a commercial or public service announcement to inform the general public about identity theft.

From groups to create a TV commercial that includes the following information regarding Identity Theft:

1. The What and Why of Identity Theft
2. Costs of Identity Theft
3. 3 of the 6 methods used to steal identity
4. The other 3 methods
5. The 3-D's to Help

Each TV commercial must be 2-5 minutes long and include a detailed description of the content and serve as a review tool.

All groups will present before the end of the class period tomorrow.

Good luck!!!

Identity Theft Continued

EQ - What are the monetary costs of Identity Theft?

1. Activator - What Word?
1. Choose one of the six methods of identity theft
2. Describe the method to a partner until they can guess which form of identity theft you are discussing
3. Switch to the other partner and repeat
2. Pre-reading - Links posted below
1. What is the topic
2. What should I focus on during the reading?
3.  Each partner will choose one of the articles to read for understanding
1. Read the article
2. Take notes
3. Write a complete summary of the article
4. Tweet-Time - Reduce your summary to 140 characters or less
1. Share your Tweet with your partner
2. Answer your partner's questions by describing your Tweet with more details from the reading.
5. Debriefing - Class Discussion Questions
1. What are the costs of identity theft?
2. How do you begin to repair your identity if you are victimized?

Link 1 - Privacy Matters
Link 2 - FTC Immediate Steps to Repair Identity Theft

Intro to Unit 7

EQ - How do thieves obtain information to obtain one’s personal identity?

1. FIRST THING FIRST - Scholarship Opportunity
2. Activator - Citibank Commercial
3. Discussion Question - What do you know about Identity Theft?
4. Advanced Organizer *
• PowerPoint
• TPS - Complete the Advanced Organizer 
• Post Questions to Today's Meet - Click to Enter
5. How Identity Theft Happens (6)
• Phishing - YouTube - Phishing
• Dumpster Diving
• Traditional Stealing
• Pretexting
• Hacking
• Spyware 
6. Team Skit Activity
7. TOD - Muddy Points