Week 8
Acuity
Action
To Do List
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• Number Sense
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So that's a start. Put down the Twinkie and start researching your investing options.
The bottom line: If you save and invest your money today, you'll have more money
tomorrow. At WeSeed, we believe the world would be in better shape if all Americans (of
investing age) bought at least one share of stock.
Speaking of savings, the US savings rate was negative for years. But in 2008, it crept up into
the black. All told, this means that 46 percent of Americans have less than $5,000 to float
them in bad times.
So that means we're well fed, caffeinated, and driving sensible cars. But while Twinkies
might be good in the short term, they do very little to buffer us from hard economic times.
One third of Americans who earn more than $75,000 spend all their discretionary income
on cakes, cars, coffee, and other material goods. Of those who earn less than $30,000 a
year, almost nine of 10 spend every penny, leaving little or no money to save.
• 35 million cans of Bud Light
• 150,000 pounds of Starbucks (SBUX) beans
• 628 Toyota (TM) Camrys
While Americans have the option to spend, save, or invest their money, most people spend
their money right away — and Twinkies aren't all they are buying. Every day, Americans
purchase:
In the face of hard economic times, what do Americans do? They eat cake — yellow cakes
with cream filling, to be exact. Every day, Americans buy 500,000 Twinkies.
Americans seem to have taken those words to heart.
Legend tells us that Marie Antoinette, the one-time queen of France, uttered these
memorable words about the impoverished Parisian populace: "So let them eat cake!"
Saving Is Hard, Spending Is Cake
MARKET MASTERS
Literacy Connection: Comprehension
Social Studies Standard 5.4.7
Predict the effect of changes in supply
and demand on price.
Math 5.3.1
Explain which types of displays are
appropriate for various sets of data.
Project Connection:
Becoming an Entrepreneur.
Materials
Needed:
Laptop
Article
Pencil
Graphic Organizer
Journal
1. Gather all needed materials.
2. Begin this station by reading with a partner the article, “Saving is
Hard, Spending is Cake” .
3. On the post-it notes, write any words you do not understand.
4. Now login to Weseed.com and click on the Learn tab at the top of
the home page. See LEVEL 1 # 2 The Uses of money Click on the link
and watch the short video.
5. With your group fill in the graphic organizer and turn in.
6. Check out your stocks, how are they doing?
7. Chart your results.
Extension Activity: On the same page as the video read
the “Wow your Friends” section . In journal write down
the fact that you were most amazed by. Tell me why.
Your Spending Practices
Group Members: _________________ __________________
_________________ ____________________ __________________
1.
List ways you can invest
1.
2.
2.
3.
3.
4.
4.
List things you spend money on
Give two reasons you should invest .
1. ___________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
Standard
EL 5.6.7 – Spell roots or bases of words with
prefixes, suffixes, contractions, and syllable
constructions correctly.
Directions:
1. Listen to the leader read the task sheet.
2. Go to Spelling City and watch the syllables video.
3. As a group play the Word call game to practice opened
and closed words.
4. NEXT, Use the template to make a pocket folder. Once you
have finished, cut out the spelling list cards and separate
the words into open and closed groups. THEN , check your
answers using the answer key.
5. Practice your spelling words on spelling city with the
remaining time.
6. Clean your rotation table and return all materials to the
basket.
PBL Connection: Becoming
an Entrepreneur
NOISE LEVEL 1
Materials
v/cv vc/v cards
Open Closed Chart
Computer
Students should note that the syllable division determines the vowel
sound and thus the spelling. Short vowels are found in closed syllable
words (ending in a consonant) and long vowel sounds are found in
open syllables (ending in a vowel). Therefore, VC/V is closed and V/CV
is opened.
Word Call Game
Materials: Timer and Deck of cards with the spelling words written
on each card.
Procedure: Leaders will lay stack of cards in the center of the table.
Players take turns flipping over one card at a time from the deck. The
first player to correctly writes out "open“, "closed“ or “neither” on
the white board gets to keep the card. The player with the most
cards wins the game.
Tyrant
Minus
Linen
Decent
Fugitive
profile
Comet
recent
Cavern
fifteen
Humor
Punish
Culture
Smoky
Loser
Closet
Local
Legal
Vacant
Shiver
Valley
Fatigue
Student
panic
Open v/cv
Closed vc/v
Fold Lines
America’s
Beginning
Noise Level 1
1. Listen to manager read the task sheet before beginning.
2. Use your textbook and the website links to fill in the chart.
3. Each box is worth 2 points (not including extra credit).
4. Once you have filled in the chart play the games on the website.
Extension activity: Read Lesson 6 in your Social Studies textbook.
Materials List
Textbook
Laptop
Chart
Other reference items
SS.5.1.7 2007 Colonization and Settlements: 1607 to 1763.
Identify and locate the 13 British colonies that became the United
States and describe daily life (political, social, and economic
organization and structure).
SS.5.1.8 2007 Colonization and Settlements: 1607 to 1763.
Identify the early founders of colonial settlements and describe
early colonial resistance to British rule.
The 13 Colonies
and their leaders
during ratification
Became a
state
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
11th
12th
13th
State name
Leader(s)
Main resource
Extra Credit
Directions:
1. Listen to the leader read the task sheet.
2. As a group, use the fraction pieces to make the shapes one
whole.
3. Determine by the number of pieces in each whole, what
fraction each piece is equal to.
4. Find all of the equivalent fractions you can and list them on
the worksheet.
5. When you are done, go to Mrs. Spear’s website and choose
the “Fraction Attraction” link to practice finding equivalent
fractions.
Materials
Fraction pieces
Pencil
Worksheet
Standard
PBL Connection
Becoming an Entrepreneur
5.1.5
Explain different interpretations of
fractions: as parts of a whole, parts of a
set, and division of whole numbers by
whole numbers.
Name ____________________________
List all of the equivalent fractions you can find using the fraction pieces.
Example: 1/7 = 2/14, 3/21, 4/28, 5/35, etc.
Fraction
1/2
1/3
1/4
1/5
1/6
1/8
1/10
1/12
Equivalent Fractions