WIPPEA Lesson Plan

Maxine Hull, Nardie Jurgens, Becky Laipple, Celeste Christensen

 

Title of Lesson

Budgeting

 CASAS Standards

1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3
Warm-up/Review
Introduction


Practice

Weekly check of progress-revise, etc.

Presentation

See Make the most of Your Income for additional worksheets.

  • Budgeting
  • Introduction: Questionnaire- “Do I..” worksheet
  • Discuss spending habits
  • “Family-money questionnaire”- discuss
  • “Planning a budget” worksheet
  • Budget for fictitious person(s)
  • Budget for self
  • Week
  • Month
  • Year
  • Review and Adjust
  • Discuss “% wheel”
  • “Ten biggest mistakes in any budget”

 Evaluation


Application/Extension

Setting up personal budget
Materials/Supplies Needed

Worksheets from Make the Most of Your Income by John Springer, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood, N.J.

 

posted Mar. 7, 2008