6-8

Theme 1: The Economic Way of Thinking
 * CCSS Correlation**
 * Essential Understandings, i.e. "People recieve money in many ways."**


 * Curriculum Integration**


 * Modification for ELL, SPED, etc.**


 * Extension**


 * Pre and Post Assessments**

Theme 2: Earning Income 6.RP.3. Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations. Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent  6.EE.4. Identify when two expressions are equivalent (i.e., when the two expressions name the same number regardless of which value is substituted into them). //For example, the expressions y + y + y and 3y are equivalent because they name the same number regardless of which number y stands for. Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities.// 6.NS.3. Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation.
 * CCSS Correlation**
 * Mathematics**

7.SP.3. Informally assess the degree of visual overlap of two numerical data distributions with similar variabilities, measuring the difference between the centers by expressing it as a multiple of a measure of variability. //For example, the mean height of players on the basketball team is 10 cm greater than the mean height of players on the soccer team, about twice the variability (mean absolute deviation) on either team; on a dot plot, the separation between the two distributions of heights is noticeable.// 7.NS.3. Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving the four operations with rational numbers.

6.7. Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
 * Language Arts**

6.6. Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.

6.6. Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and comain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
 * Writing**

6.2.a. Introduce a topic: organize ideas, concepts, and information, using stratregies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.

Lesson 4: "The longer you stay in school the more money you can earn to become successful." Lesson 5: "Understanding what you enjoy and are good at will lead you to career options that will be rewarding both personally and finacially." Lesson 6: "Technology has made way for tasks to be completed quicker and more efficiently with less effort. Staying current with technology will improve human capital."
 * Essential Understandings**

Social Studies/Mathematics. One week:
 * Curriculum Integration**
 * Lesson 4: one day
 * Lesson 5: 2 days
 * Lesson 6: 1 day
 * Friday: Performance assessment.

Hetergeneous grouping for lessons to incorpoate all learning abilities.
 * Modification for ELL, SPED, etc.**

Lesson 4 Remove "Comfortable" section in 4.1 Exercise. Add pictures to vocabulary words for a visual aspect.

Lesson 5 Add pictures to vocbulary words for a visual aspect. Modify list in Exercise 5.1 to individual students' interests. Provide examples of how to solve Columns D and E in Exercise 5.1. Reword Exercise 5.3 for lower levelled readers. Reader's Theater for Lesson 5 Assessment.

Lesson 6 Add pictures to vocabulary words for a visual aspect. Identify inustries specific to Ansonia, and how do those industries use technology. Talk about individual skills and what careers they could complement before starting Exercise 6.1.

Apply skills to everyday life/personal connection outside of the school setting.
 * Extension**

Pre and Post Assessment: Is it important to stay in school? Why or why not?
 * Pre and Post Assessments**

Theme 3: Money Management
 * CCSS Correlation**


 * Essential Understandings, i.e. "People recieve money in many ways."**


 * Curriculum Integration**


 * Modification for ELL, SPED, etc.**


 * Extension**


 * Pre and Post Assessments**

Theme 4: Saving Use of calculator, white boards Interactive PowerPoint’s for smart boards Local newspaper focusing on current bank interest rates Graphic organizers/model for each activity IXL Math program to reinforce computation skills Game – Monopoly, Life Price comparison charts – for example: renting verses buying **//__Extension __//**Invite a bank representative/credit union in to discuss saving option/simulate mock banking using local tellers Junior Achievement Program Current events – using newspaper, magazine articles**//__Pre Assessment __//**** - Establish baseline by supplying students a list of key vocabulary and ask them to define each **
 * //CCSS Correlation (Gr.8): //**
 * //__Expressions and Equations: __//**** Understanding the connections between proportional relationships, lines and linear equations. **
 * //__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">Statistics and Probability: __//****<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;"> Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data. **
 * __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">Essential Understandings __****__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">: __**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">Financially planning for the future is the key for successfully achieving your goals. In other words: In order to afford the things you truly want, it is important to plan for the future. **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">**//__<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Curriculum Integration __//****Science:** Ecology – “Going Green” theme – correlating the “saving” of Earth’s resources to the benefits
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">Social Studies: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;"> Great Depression – highlighting the dangers of limiting your saving options – “Putting all your eggs in one basket”
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">Language Arts: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;"> Reading selections based on the following themes: Ecology, Great Depression, setting personal goals
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">Writing **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">- “Where will you be in the next five years?”**//__<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Modification for ELL, SPED, etc. __//**Word walls with visuals to support vocabulary
 * //__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">Post Assessment __//****<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;"> - Create a personal portfolio based on their current income (holiday money, odd job pay, allowance, etc.) integrating the vocabulary taught within the lessons **

Theme 5: Spending & Credit 7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words. 9. Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take. 7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. 1)- This connects to lesson 15.1 Advantages and Disadvantages of Various Methods of Payment 1. People need to live within their means 2. There are advantages and disadvantages to using cash, credit, or other forms of payment. 3. People spend money in different ways. 4. People need to control their spending.
 * CCSS Correlation**
 * Language Arts Anchor Standards:**
 * Reading**:
 * Writing:**
 * (Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies**:
 * Essential Understandings:**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> In Comparing and Scaling students will learn how to > "What is the ratio of boys to girls in our class?" > "What fraction of the class is going to the spring picnic?" > "What percent of the girls play basketball?" > "Which model of car has the best fuel economy?" > "Which long-distance telephone company is more popular?" <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In Accentuate the Negative students learn to:
 * Curriculum Integration:**
 * Language Arts:** Tie in to persuasive writing unit and have students argue the benefits and drawback of cash and credit.
 * Social Studies**: This can be connected to social studies as students create arguments to support their points of view in many different way including “Patriots v. Loyalists” & “The Constitutional Convention”.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"> Math: When using CMP modules, this unit can be used in conjunction with the “Comparing & Scaling” module and “Accentuate the Negative” module. **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"> Comparing & Scaling Module **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Analyze comparison statements made about quantitative data
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Use ratios, fractions, differences, and percents to form comparison statements in a given situation, such as
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Judge whether comparison statements make sense and are useful
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">See how forms of comparison statements are related, for example, a percent and a fraction comparison
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Make judgments about which statements are most informative or best reflect a particular point of view
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Decide when the most informative comparison is to find the difference between two quantities and when it is to form ratios between pairs of quantities
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Scale a ratio, rate, or fraction up or down to make a larger or smaller object or population with the same relative characteristics as the original
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Represent related data in tables
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Look for patterns in tables that will allow predictions to be made beyond the tables
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Accentuate The Negative Module: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Use appropriate notation to indicate positive and negative numbers;
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Compare and order rational numbers (positive and negative fractions and decimals and zero) and locate them on a number line;
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Understand the relationship between a positive or negative number and its opposite (additive inverse);
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Develop algorithms for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing positive and negative numbers and write mathematical sentences to show relationships;
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Write and use related fact families for addition and subtraction and multiplication and division to solve simple equations with missing facts;
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Use parentheses and order of operations conventions to make computational sequences clear
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Understand and use the commutative property for addition and multiplication of negative and positive numbers;
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Apply the distributive property with positive and negative numbers to simplify expressions and solve problems; and
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Use positive and negative numbers to graph in four quadrants, model and answer questions about applied settings.

Take students shopping and have them conduct real life grocery shopping. Students will compare prices using a discounted card vs. not using one. Students will understand how to use the self-checkout register. Using the worksheet on page 143 of the teacher guide, fill in portions to help scaffold student learning. Ie) List the advantages and disadvantages and students will fill in which form of payment they are working with.
 * Modification for ELL, SPED, etc.**
 * Comparison shopping**-

Extension- Tactile and visual learning strategies- students will observe a real life banking checkbook and conduct mathematical banking transactions that will assist them in calculating interest rates and fees.
 * Extension**

Students are assigned the following project “You in the Real World”. Students will pick their dream career and research their average annual salary. Students will also research the cost of living in various areas including rent expense, utilities, education expenses, taxes, etc. Students will determine whether they will be able to sustain a good living based off their revenues and expenses. Following this assignment, students will create a PowerPoint presentation that details their experience of the project.


 * Pre and Post Assessments**
 * Pre Assessment- KWL Chart**
 * Post Assessment- Extension Project**