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Course Units & Assignments
Unit 1: Introduction
Presentation: "Life's Not Fair"
Video: The Time You Have (in Jelly Beans)
Assignment: The Economics of "the time you have" in jelly beans
Video: This is Water
Assignment:
Leaving Home & Welcome to the Real World
Assignment:
Have List & Need List
Movie: "Castaway"
Assignment:
Castaway Discussion Questions
(ppt)
Castaway Discussion Powerpoint
Assignment:
Activity: The Island Game
Unit 2: On Your Own
Assignment:
Renting an Apartment
Info: Rental Guide (use with "Rental Application" assignment below)
Assignment:
Rental Application
(Read: Info: Rental Guide First)
Assignment:
Would you Sign this Lease?
Assignment
: Transportation Costs
Info: Insurance Basics
Assignment:
Buying Auto Insurance
Assignment:
Monthly Expenses
Assignment:
Working a Budget
Info: "Biggest Budgeting Blunders
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Video: TED: 3 Psychological Tricks to Saving Money
Assignment:
Monthly Budgeting Exercise
Information needed to complete Monthly Budgeting Exercise Assignment Above: Month #1
Information needed to complete Monthly Budgeting Exercise Assignment Above: Month #2
Video: TED: Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness
Assignment:
Watch Dan Gilbert Ted Talk above and read Money Doesn't Buy Happiness - please write a reflection for each one on a separate sheet of paper
Reading: Money Doesn't Buy Happiness
Assignment:
Read and Respond (write a paragraph of response for each reading) to the following 2 Readings
:
Reading #1: The High Cost of Poverty
Reading #2: The Work and Spend Cycle
Unit 3: Career Exploration
Assignment:
Video Guide: Pursuit of Happyness
Assignment:
Making Money
Reading: Preparing for a Job Interview
Information: Creating a Resume
Video: TED: Amy Cuddy: Your Body Language
Unit 4: Banking & Checking
Banking Information
Assignment:
Banking & Checking Accounts
Unit 5: Saving & Investing
Video: TED: Dan Gilbert: Why we make bad decisions
Information: The Power of Time & Money
I
nfo: Saving & Investing
Assignment:
Saving & Investing
Unit 6: Credit & Credit Cards
Assignment:
QTPi Credit Card Activity
Information: Credit Card Agreement (The Fine Print)
Video: Frontline : Secret History of the Credit Card
Assignment:
Questions: Secret History of the Credit Card
Credit Information
Assignment:
Credit
Credit Card Information
Assignment:
Credit Cards
Unit 7: Consumer Awareness
Information: Reading an Ad
Assignment:
15 Ways Stores Trick You Into Spending
Information: Consumer Privacy
Information: Consumer Awareness (ppt)
Assignment:
Student Activity: Consumer Awareness
Video: Frontline: "Generation Like"
Video: TED: Cameron Russell: Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model
Unit 8: Summary, Wrap up, the Meaning of Life....
Video: Your Life, Your Money
Assignment:
Your Life. Your Money
Assignment:
City Slickers
Video: ABC Special: The Last Lecture
Assignment:
The Last Lecture
Information: Top 5 Regrets of the Dying
Video: TED: Simon Sinek: How Great Leaders Inspire Action
FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE: Economics
Home
Contact
IB Theory of Knowledge
General Materials
Ways of Knowing
Areas of Knowledge
TOK Assessments
>
Presentation
Paper
IB History of the Americas
General Materials
History as an Area of Knowledge
US Civil War & Reconstruction
>
Antebellum Slavery
Causes of the US Civil War
Course of the US Civil War
Reconstruction
Cold War in the Americas
>
Origins, Truman & McCarthyism
Korean War & Ike's New Look
Vietnam War
Cold War Foreign Policy: JFK to Carter
Cuba Case Study
Civil Rights and Social Movements
>
US African American Civil Rights Movement
Feminism in the Americas
Role of Governments
Youth Movements
Hispanic American Movements
Indigenous Peoples
American Government
General Materials
Foundations of American Government
Civil Liberties
Civil Rights
Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
The Judicial Branch
Participating in Government
Economics
CAS
CAS Calendars
CAS Opportunities