Introduction
This is a Webquest designed to teach students about budgets, spending, and borrowing to create an authentic product of learning.
Task
In this WebQuest, you will be collecting information to help prepare you for our classroom market. You are going to choose a product, create a budget for your product, evaluate how much you will spend when creating your product, and decide if there is anything you will need to borrow from the teacher or your peers. Make sure to pick a product that you enjoy and believe other students will want to purchase from the market.
As you complete the WebQuest, fill out this template about the product you decided to make.
| What is your...... | |
| Product |
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| Budget |
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| Spending |
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| Borrowing |
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Process
1. You will use the link provided to discover information about budget and spending. The goal is to figure out how long you will need to save for a product you are interested in creating.
http://www.themint.org/kids/saving-calculator.html?detectflash=false
- calculate 2 items that you want in the calculator
2. Decide a product you would like to create for the market.
3. Using the links, you will learn about how to create a budget along with how to anticipate spending and borrowing. The goal is to understand budgets more overall, if an item is a want or a need, and to understand what kind of spender you are to be aware of this.
https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/economics/budgets/
- watch the video
- play 2 games
http://www.themint.org/kids/what-kind-of-spender-are-you.html
- complete the quiz
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/economics/wantsandneeds1.htm
- read page one and two
- take the 5 question quiz
4. After you understand budgets, spending, and borrowing you will apply your knowledge to prepare for creating your own for your product. You will create a budget for your product, evaluate how much you will spend when creating your product, and decide if there is anything you will need to borrow from the teacher or your peers.
5. Once the planning process is completed, you will create your product and prepare to create your product to sell in our classroom market.
Evaluation
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
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| Product |
A clear idea of product
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Some idea of product | Creating a product | No product |
| Budget |
Budget with every expense listed
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Budget with most expenses listed | Budget with some expenses listed | No budget with expenses |
| Spending |
Price of every expense listed
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Price of most expenses listed
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Price of some expenses listed
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No prices listed
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| Borrowing |
A list of items that will be borrowed
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Some items that will be borrowed listed |
Limited items that will be borrowed listed |
No items that will be borrowed listed |
Conclusion
Once you have finished choosing a product and creating a spending, budget, and borrowing list. Once you have completed this, turn it in so that other students can look at it. Tomorrow, we will provide feedback to our peers before you create your product. Think about what you have discovered on this quest, was there anything new that you learned? Write this down on a piece of paper and at a later time, we will all share what we learned with the class.
Teacher Page
This WebQuest is for 5th grade standards covering the standards pertaining to budget, spending, and borrowing. The students that do this WebQuest are tasked to create a product for a classroom market and are required to dig deep when planning and creating this product.
Standards
5.E.2.2 Evaluate the costs and benefits of spending, borrowing and saving.
5.E.2.1 Explain the importance of developing a basic budget for spending and saving.