The Price is Right!

  As a result of this WebQuest, students will
be introduced to checking, bookkeeping, Excel spreadsheets, and personal
finance. Through the steps of working together in a Jigsaw format, they will
learn about the different aspects of a checking account and share their
findings as they use critical thinking to knit the group in a common
understanding of all the components from why we use checks, to writing a check,
tracking their spending, and reconciling with the bank. Our interactive program
allows students show their different strengths through writing, oral
presentation, and manipulating data on spread sheets as they bring it all together.
Team work and compromising will be key elements in this group project.

   Your students will not only learn about
business and finance, but gain a new perspective on working with positive
versus negative numbers and applying that knowledge in a real world setting.
The program also reinforces reading, writing, and interpersonal communication.
All websites are listed below, but can be substituted with more up to date
sites as they come available.

    To use this WebQuest, your students will be
expected to have access to a word processor and spreadsheet software. If you
substitute Open office or another spreadsheet program, the appropriate tutorial
will need to be substituted as well. The project is expected to take a single
class period in a block schedule environment or two classes within a
traditional setting.

  This WebQuest was created in Miami-Dade�s
class for Technology with the help of our professor, Valencia Gabriel.

Standards

MAFS.7.NS.1.3 Solve real world and mathematical problems involving the four operations with rational numbers
MAFS.7.NS.3.0 Demonstrate an understanding of the Banking Services career pathway

Credits

Bank of Scotland (n.d.) Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-31769990


Bernardo, R. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://wallethub.com/edu/how-to-balance-a-checkbook/13769/

Blue Eagle Credit Union. (2015, December 21). Checking Accounts 101. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW-di8ipCqM

Doug, H. (2013, September 20). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWhUAG8iA_k

How to Read your Statement. (2016). Retrieved from http://www.handsonbanking.org/financial-education/adults/how-to-read-your-statement/

Peterson, L. (n.d.) Why You Still Need Paper Checks and How to Use Them Safely. Retrieved from http://www.moneycrashers.com/why-need-paper-checks-use-safely/

Rubric (n.d.). Created in http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

The Self-Directed IRA LLC � Checkbook Control (n.d.) Retrieved from http://www.irafinancialgroup.com/iracheckbookcontrol.php

Writing a Check (n.d.) Retrieved from: http://www.themint.org/kids/writing-a-check.html