Teacher Candidate Name:
Grade & Subject:
Date + Time of demo/class:
Rheanna Faedo
Faculty Advisor:
RR RRRRR
Business Education 8
School Advisor:
YY YYYYY
Oct. 24 @ 10:30
Block + Classroom:
2:4, Rm 310
Topic:
Subject matter
Students will become familiar with the topic of budgeting by planning a
Explain about the vacation in their province/country.
material/technology to be
taught/demonstrated
Goals: -Prepare and use a budget and evaluate its effectiveness in meeting a
Aims/Outcomes
BC IRPs
Objectives:
Performance/ Behavioural
Indicators
What will students be able to do/
know by the end of the lesson?
Instructional Materials:
Aids/AV/Technology
List the necessary materials:
For Teacher / For Students
Introduction:
Hook: Focus student attention
specific need.
-Students will develop a travel plan for a vacation in their province or
anywhere in Canada.
-Students will chose a place in Canada where they would like to visit for
two weeks after high school graduation.
-Students will be able to use Microsoft Word to write and explain the
details of their travel plans and prepare a detailed itinerary of their
trip.
-Students will be given a budget of $1400 ($100 a day) for their twoweek vacation. This does not include transportation to and from
destination.
-Students will use Microsoft Excel to prepare and expense budget
worksheet to show the expenses they used on their trip.
Teachers:
o Computer
o Internet
o Smartboard
o PowerPoint
o Microsoft Word and Excel
Students:
o Computer
o Internet
o Student Handout/Worksheet
o Microsoft Word and Excel
Hook – Hands up how many people have travelled throughout BC or
across Canada?
Video – http://www.lonelyplanet.com/canada/videos/canadacanada$ltv-98AB0130F9B6D056
Hook – How many people have saved up and used their own money to go
on a vacation before?
Pre-test / starter:
Activate and diagnose prior
knowledge
New Terms:
Vocabulary/
List and define new terms
Has anyone ever used a budget to save money before?
Budget, itinerary, expenses, column, row, cell, auto-fill, auto-sum.
*Students will be given a pre-starter activity sheet at beginning of
class where they are to look up the definitions of new vocabulary
Step 1 – Introduce the assignment – Canadian Vacation (on a budget).
Explain in a lecture how most people get two to three weeks of vacation
from their jobs a year and how many people decide to travel. Explain
how they are to choose a place to visit in Canada for two weeks
sometime after high school and how they are suppose to budget for
$1400 for their entire trip, not including transportation to and from
the destination of their choice (for example, they would not include the
cost of their flight if they were taking a flight somewhere). To get
students thinking of where they would like to go, ask them what places
they would like to visit in Canada? [List different places on board or
projector.] What do you know about each of the locations? Are these
places expensive? (15 minutes)
Procedure:
How much time will you spend on
individual parts of the lesson?
List steps necessary for using or
applying the tool or process.
Modeling/Explanation
Demonstration
Step 2 – Provide students with examples of where they can vacation
within Canada (for example, Whistler, Banff, Okanagan, Edmonton,
Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto). During this part of the lesson, ask
them if they know of these places and what they would want to do or
see once they were at this place (for example, ask students if they have
heard of or been to Whistler, ask them what they can do for
entertainment in Whistler). Explain that this is a budgeting exercise
and students are expected to keep track of their spending throughout
their two week vacation without going over a $1400 budget, so they
need to keep track of what they spend their money on each day (for
example, how much money did they spend on food, transportation, and
entertainment each day). Explain that the Whistler example is an
example of an expensive destination in Canada and in order to be able to
budget $1400 to visit Whistler students will probably need to travel
with a group of people in order to share the costs of accommodations.
(10 minutes)
Step 3 – Explain to students that they will be expected to use
Microsoft Word to create a title page with their name and destination.
They must include an introduction, one paragraph or more, with the
following information: traveling alone or with friends; mode of
transportation during two week vacation (not to and from destination);
if applicable name of flight carrier, car rental agency, bus, or train;
times and dates of departure and arrival; name and address of
accommodation; other important information. * This information will be
provided to students in a student handout as well as an example of what
a detailed itinerary of a trip will look like. (5 minutes)
Step 4 - Introduce Microsoft Excel to students. Explain how part of
the budgeting assignment is to use a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in
order to keep track of their budgeting expenses. In the Excel
demonstration explain how to:
Step A – Explain how to open an Excel file, what a cell, column, and a
row are
Step B – Explain how to set up a spreadsheet for the Canadian Vacation
Assignment: In cell A1 enter Day, in cell B1 enter Transportation, in cell
C1 enter Accommodation, etc.
Step C – Explain how to use auto-fill function: You can manually enter in
all the numbers needed (i.e. 1 through 14) but there is an easier way to
perform this task and its called auto-filling. You start by entering in 1
(in cell A2) and then 2 (in cell A3), then select both cells and move your
cursor to the bottom right corner of the cells and make sure you find
the black plus sign; once you see the black plus sign, click and drag down
to cell A15. By doing this you will automatically fill in the numbers 1
through 14.
Step D – Explain how to use auto-sum functions: Under Transportation
in cells B2 to B15, enter in the numbers given as an example on the
bottom of page 2 from the student handout. Once numbers have been
entered you can add the total amount of dollars spent on Transportation
by using auto-sum. You can start by selecting cell B16 and enter
=sum(B2:B15), then press enter. Another faster way to use auto-sum is
by selecting a cell at the end of a group of numbers in a column or row
and pressing the auto sum sign. For example, in row 2, which are cells
B2 to G2, enter in the numbers given as an example on the bottom of
page 2 in the student handout. Then total these numbers up by using
the auto-sum sign in order to find the total dollar amount spent on Day
1. Go to cell H2 and press the auto sum sign and it automatically sums up
the total dollars spent on Day 1 of the Canadian Vacation.
Special Safety:
N/A
Any special safety precautions
Guided Practice:
Guided/Monitored Activity.
Application of knowledge,
classroom activities for students,
problem to solve, etc.
Accommodations:
Differentiated Instruction
Teaching Strategy:
1. Arrange class appropriately so they are able to see
PowerPoint/Smartboard lecture
2. Handout Canadian Vacation (on a budget) activity worksheet
3. Explain they can work on assignment in pairs or in groups if they
decide to travel in groups, however, each student is required to
submit their own vacation report.
Give students the opportunity to work in pairs so they can bonce ideas
off on another. Gives ESL students an opportunity to work with native
English speaking students (peer buddy).
Check For Understanding
(Questions):
Assessment/Feedback
Evaluation/Assessment:
Measures of Progress
How does this lesson relate to
assignments/homework/readings.
Closure:
Wrapping it up/Recap Key
Concepts
Teacher Reflections:
To be completed
after lesson!
Notes for yourself
-Who has been on a vacation before?
-Who has saved up their own money to go on a vacation before, if so,
how?
-Why is it important to follow a budget for a vacation?
-What is Microsoft Excel and how can it be used in budgeting?
-What is the difference between a column and a row in Excel?
- Why is it easier to use auto-fill and auto-sum versus just filling in
the spreadsheet manually?
Assess the extent to which students budgets meet or exceed
expectations by asking questions such as:
• Does the final budget meet the criteria given in student
handout?
When assessing student budgets, to what extent do students:
- Perform tasks such as auto-fill and auto-sum on excel
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Questions:
- What types of places can you go on in our Canadian Vacation?
- How much money do you have to budget for in the 2 weeks?
- Are you able to travel together and share accommodations with
other schoolmates?
- Why is it important to use Excel when budgeting?