Lesson Plan Overview

Proposed Lesson Plan
* After a discussion about budgeting, savings accounts and checking accounts, the students will experience making a budget and tracking spending, earning and saving on Quicken. After creating a budget, using the amount of money "given" to them, the students will track their real spending and earning habits on Quicken. When the week is over they will evaluate how well they followed their budget and plot the amount in their account each day and create a graph using Excel.

* This plan is appropriate for Juniors and Seniors at the high school level who are taking a Family and Consumer Science Exploration class.

Utah Core Curriculum Standard
* Standard 20.0101-01Students will identify and discuss social and financial skills need to develop personal independence and interpersonal relationships.

Technologies
* Quicken
* Microsoft Excel
* Power Point

Example
* I will create a Power Point presentation to demonstrate to the students how to use Quicken and Excel and make an example of what their budgets and graphs should look like. I will also include several links, such as http://www.bankhs.com/ to help the students understand how to make their own budget plan.