Family Budget Project (week 4)

Personal finance has been continuing to learn about the importance of financial planning and putting together a budget.  This week, we will be putting everything together by putting together a sample budget for a family.  Students will research jobs, required education, housing costs, taxes, credit card payments, car payments, utilities, grocery prices, and much more.  As the students find out their randomly generated family and financial information, they will begin putting together their findings into a spreadsheet, then a PowerPoint presentation.  This will be a great activity that allows students to see what all goes into the planning for a family budget, and to see why it is necessary for meeting their long-term financial goals.  On Friday, we will continue to look at our stock market portfolios, current events, and work on our Acellus testing.