HSIB Curriculum Map
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August
Content and Essential Skills
WEEK ONE
- Are banks businesses?
-- Chapter 21-Opening a Checking Account
1. Discuss four advantages to having a checking account.
2. Discuss the process for opening a checking account.
3. Discuss the purpose of an endorsement.
4. Demonstrate three types of endorsements.
5. Describe the purpose of a check stub and check register.
6. Demonstrate how to properly complete a deposit ticket
Skills
STANDARDS
- Plan and present short presentations, individually or as a member of a group
- Read textbooks and online sources for information
- Demonstrate reading comprehension by restating or summarizing
- Read and follow simple directions
- Expand vocabulary to include simple business terms
- Write logical, coherent phrases, sentences, and paragraphs incorporating correct spelling grammar and punctuation
- Edit and revise written work
- Take simple notes
- Proofread documents to ensure correct grammar, spelling and punctuation
- Apply a variety of specific proofreading techniques to identify and correct mistakes
- Compare drafts to final documents and make editorial changes
- Follow oral directions
- Demonstrate courtesy and respect for the speaker through active listening
- Use active listening techniques
- Use courtesy and tact when dealing with others
- Use basic software applications
- List the basic services provided by financial deposit institutions
- Identify the rights and responsibilities associated with using a checking account
- Compare and contrast the different types of checking accounts offered by various financial deposit institutions
- Compare electronic means of transferring funds
- Identify other means of transferring funds
- Recognize the costs associated with services offered by financial deposit institutions
- Describe and use the steps involved in the bank reconciliation process
- Compare and contrast the various forms of endorsement
Assessment
Daily Quizzes
Workbook activities pg. 113-116
Study Guide
Test
Resources
Intro to Business Textbook
Chapter 21-Guided Notes (teacher generated)
Intro to Business Video (10 minute segment)
Chapter 5 - Entrepreneurship and Small Business PowerPoint
Chapter 6 - Business Ownership and Operations PowerPoint
The Franchise Mall - Ben & Jerry's Franchise Information
Chapter 7 - Organizational Structures PowerPoint
Chapter 8 - Leadership in Management PowerPoint
Optional
September
Content and Essential Skills
Can you legally write a check on a napkin with a crayon?
WEEK ONE
- Intro to Business Video Clip
- Chapter 22 Guided Notes (Check writing)
- Workbook Activities
WEEK TWO
- Chapter 23 Guided Notes (Reconciliation)
- Workbook Activities
- Calculating Business Problems 2-4
WEEK THREE
- Intro to Business Video Clip
- Checkbook Simulation
- Guest Speaker (banking)
WEEK FOUR
- Chapter One Guided Notes-(Economics)
- Economics Activity
- Vocabulary X-Word
- Economics Video
Skills
Define and give examples of economic wants and needs
Demonstrate how resources (factors of production) may be used to satisfy economic wants
Define and give examples of scarcity
Explain why scarcity requires individuals, governments, and societies to make choices
Define and give examples of the opportunity costs of personal choices
Describe characteristics of a market system
Identify questions that must be answered by an economic system
Compare and contrast the different types of economic systems with primary focus on planned and market systems
Describe the characteristics of and give examples of a mixed economy
Analyze existing economies and how they answer the three questions every economic system must answer
Describe the role of profit in our economy and the relationship of profit to risk and uncertainty
Identify the various forms of business organizations and the risks and rewards associated with each
Define and give examples of economic wants and needs
Apply opportunity costs and trade-offs to personal decision making
Differentiate between types of decisions and identify those for which a formal decision-making process should be used
Assessment
Daily Quizzes
- Vocabulary quiz
- Workbook activities pg. 119-122
- Study Guide
- Test
Chapter 21Study Guide
- Chapter 21 Review Your Reading
- Chapter 21 Quiz
Chapter 22 Study Guide
- Chapter 22 Quiz
- Reconciliation Worksheet
Chapter 23 Review Your Reading
- Chapter 23 Study Guide
- Chapter 23 Quiz
Chapter 1 Study Guide
Resources
Optional
October
Content and Essential Skills
WEEK ONE
- Chapter 5 workbook activities
WEEK TWO
- Chapter 6 Guided Notes (Business Structures)
- Chapter 6 workbook activities
- Business Plan-group activity
WEEK THREE
- Business Plan Assignment
- Computer generated business plan using information from chapters 1, 2, 5 and 6.
WEEK FOUR-Career Unit
- Ad find activity
- Application notes
- Top 10 Careers Video
- Set up e-mail accounts
Skills
List positive characteristics about yourself
Identify personal likes and dislikes
Compare personal skills and aptitudes with various career options
Identify transferable competencies and job-specific skills related to career and job options
Describe and give examples of career clusters
Write a simple application letter and resume for a simulated job opportunity
Identify ways to find appropriate jobs, including the use of personal network
Discuss and demonstrate the importance of appropriate dress in an interview situation
Complete job application forms
Discuss illegal and discriminatory interview questions
Prepare a list of common mistakes made by interviewees
Assessment
Chapter 5 Review Your Reading
Chapter 5 Study Guide
Chapter 5 Quiz
Chapter 6 Study Guide
Chapter 6 Quiz
Completed Job Application
Resources
Optional
November
Content and Essential Skills
WEEK ONE
- Rough draft cover letter and resume
- Type final drafts
- Interview notes and discussion
- Interview video
- Self-Assessment
- Career Explorer
WEEK TWO
- Work conflicts and Work Skills videos and worksheets
- Career Odyssey game
WEEK THREE
- Kids and Credit Cards (read and discuss magazine article)
- Chapter 24 Guided Notes (Credit)
- Your First Credit Card (newspaper article and questions)
- Vocabulary terms matching game
- Careful with Credit Video
WEEK FOUR
- Chapter 26 Guided Notes
Skills
- Describe the risks and responsibilities associated with using credit
- Identify methods of establishing and maintaining a good credit rating
- Determine advantages and disadvantages of credit
- Define interest as a cost of credit and explain why it is changed
- Explain why the amount of principal, the period of the loan and the interest rate effect the amount of interest charged
- Analyze various sources and types of credit and related costs
- Explain credit ratings and credit reports and describe why they are important to consumers
Assessment
Completed Interview Analysis
Typed cover letter
Typed resume
3 C's activity
Chapter 24 Review Your Reading, 1-11
Chapter 24 Study Guide
Chapter 24 Quiz
Calculating Business Problems 1-4
Workbook Activity
Using Business Knowledge 2-3
Calculating Business Problems 1-3
Daily Pop Quiz
Chapter 26 Worksheet
Study Guide
Chapter 26 Quiz
Resources
Optional
December
Content and Essential Skills
WEEK ONE
- What is liquidity?
- Wall Street Video and worksheet
- Chapter 28 Group Posters and Individual Notes
WEEK TWO
- What is compounding?
- How long will it take to double my savings?
WEEK THREE
- Group final review
- Make-up day
- Finals
Skills
- Describe why and how people save
- Differentiate between saving and investing
- Distinguish between simple and compound interest
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of different saving and investing plans
- Construct, read and interpret tables, charts and graphs
- Use compound interest calculators on the internet to compute compound interest and compound amounts
- Compute and compare the rates of return for various instruments to make decisions
Assessment
Workbook Activities
Review Your Reading 1-9
Calculating Business Problems 1-3
No Brainer's Personal Finance Video and worksheet
www.themint.org worksheet
The Power of Compounding article and questions
Chapter 28 Study Guide
Chapter 28 Quiz
Resources
Optional
January
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
February
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
March
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
April
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
May
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
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