Learning Goals:
- to recognize the importance of saving money early and consistently
- to understand how inflation and interest are related
- to use critical thinking skills when evaluating a video clip's purpose, audience, and formulate questions students would want viewers to have the knowledge to answer
Activities:
- Complete the short response on the BrainPop video from yesterday on banking and the relationship between interest and inflation in regards to bank loans. Type responses on PB Works site. Create a Money folder to place the writing assignments for this unit in.
- Stations: Students break into 3 subgroups and watch one of the short videos (Animal Savings, Family Savings, Sesame Street) Students in each assigned group become experts in one of the videos and determine the following for the video: audience, 1-2 main points, and create 3-5 questions on the video for other groups to answer)
- Students then switch groups and have 20 minutes at each video to answer the questions that were left on the white board.
