Large Scale Simulation and Financial Literacy Activity
This challenging and multifaceted project will be completed, partly alone and partly with a partner. The simulation develops by stage. Each stage in meant to engage students in looking at how life and career choices blend and that opportunities and limitations are part of career selection.
This activity will take about 8-12 periods to complete. It includes, circumstances permitting, a visit to a local grocery store to determine food costs. The rationale of the activity is to have students inquire into questions about their interests/motivations, aptitudes and opportunities before them. The goal is to speculate on what would make a good "fit" from a career perspective. Then, with that knowledge in hand, students consider the financial implications through the development of a detailed income statement.
The activity has two main phases.
As tasks are assigned, links will appear here.
Tools and Resources
Phase One - Career Investigation
Worksheet #1 - this is a duplicate of the handout in class. It's a form which can be filled in, saved and printed. You will submit a completed copy once you have finished the online assessments and career related research.
Test #1 - Personality type and career connections. Are you introverted or extroverted? A feeler or a thinker? This assessment fits your personality to a career type based on a Myers-Briggs assessment. Answer the questions and record the four letter result. Investigate the career connections, choose and record.
Test #2 - click the link and choose the "Interests" quiz. This quiz connects the things that interest you to careers that have similar attributes. Then, do research on the those careers. Remember, as an option, you can use the NOC number to dig deeper.
Test #3 - this quiz assesses "abilities". Here, it's trying to assess what you may be good at doing. For example, you may want to be a sculptor, but if you have no fine motor skills, it's likely a poor choice.
This challenging and multifaceted project will be completed, partly alone and partly with a partner. The simulation develops by stage. Each stage in meant to engage students in looking at how life and career choices blend and that opportunities and limitations are part of career selection.
This activity will take about 8-12 periods to complete. It includes, circumstances permitting, a visit to a local grocery store to determine food costs. The rationale of the activity is to have students inquire into questions about their interests/motivations, aptitudes and opportunities before them. The goal is to speculate on what would make a good "fit" from a career perspective. Then, with that knowledge in hand, students consider the financial implications through the development of a detailed income statement.
The activity has two main phases.
- Personal assessments and career investigation - this requires several online assessments. These help "paint a picture". An important part is connecting "who I am" to "what can I do?"
- Creation of an income statement that includes line items for housing, savings, transportation and ongoing costs. Students complete a much simplified income tax calculation to determine disposable income.
As tasks are assigned, links will appear here.
Tools and Resources
- Saskatchewan Job Chart - a great guide for SK based careers. They're grouped by career family and show salaries, training and level of opportunity when fields of work. We will look at it in class.
- Job Bank Career Info - this site makes it easy to find specific info on a long list of career options. Just type in the career name. Use the NOC to help focus searches
- Career Families - this site groups careers into related categories. It might be helpful when you are trying to find similar options.
- Personality Types - a description of each of the 16 basic Myers Briggs categories. Use this page to get a quick summary. You will take a quiz to find you type below. Each type has its own a family of matching careers.
Phase One - Career Investigation
Worksheet #1 - this is a duplicate of the handout in class. It's a form which can be filled in, saved and printed. You will submit a completed copy once you have finished the online assessments and career related research.
- worksheet #1 sample - partially completed as a guide. Check in if you have questions
Test #1 - Personality type and career connections. Are you introverted or extroverted? A feeler or a thinker? This assessment fits your personality to a career type based on a Myers-Briggs assessment. Answer the questions and record the four letter result. Investigate the career connections, choose and record.
Test #2 - click the link and choose the "Interests" quiz. This quiz connects the things that interest you to careers that have similar attributes. Then, do research on the those careers. Remember, as an option, you can use the NOC number to dig deeper.
Test #3 - this quiz assesses "abilities". Here, it's trying to assess what you may be good at doing. For example, you may want to be a sculptor, but if you have no fine motor skills, it's likely a poor choice.
PAA
Practical and Applied Arts is a generally integrated set of activities focused on skills that support or enhance learning. This year, I will focus on two broad categories.
Brickfilms
Typing Activities
- Integration of technology. Students will learn how to use cloud storage for sharing and collaboration as well specific features of Microsoft tools including Word, PowerPoint and Excel. This school year, students will be required to produce polished written compositions using Word templates, deliver individual and group presentations using PowerPoint and build graphs using Excel. I plan to do some coding as well, time permitting. It teaches algorithmic thinking and it's actually quite fun. My hope is to improve mathematical thinking as a benefit.
- Television production. This winter, all students will participate in the Telemedia program ultimately producing both an interview and television commercial at our studio. This current edition was produced by me for use by teachers in our division.
- MS Word training
- PowerPoint Mini- presentation
Brickfilms
- working with a partner, the teams will develop a short Lego film using stop motion animation. This activity has a mix composition and technical activity. Techniques will be demonstrated in class. The final assembly can be done on user owned iPads or phones, personal computers or on school supplied gear. Students will be using tripods and phones/cameras, video editing software, audio editing software and Lego to produce their projects. While the films will be short, the process will take a couple of months worth of classes to complete.
- project details
- rubric - use this to evaluate the quality of each step in the process.
- story summary doc - a duplicate of the one provided in class. Print it out if you need to a redo,
- simplified storyboard (paper version supplied in class). This is a form which you can type into. If you use the Edge browser, you can right click, save as, and then open the file later to edit. Chrome will let you save each page but you can not edit afterward. The steps will be demonstrated in class.
- Audacity tips - this is a quick helper on some basics to using Audacity. In includes a tip on how to change the pitch of your voice.
Typing Activities