Class Activities
A review game where students shoot paper balls into the recycle bin.
What is trashketball?
Effectively sharing ideas through speaking, writing, or listening with your teammates.
What is Communication?
Costs that remain the same every month, such as rent or a car payment.
What are fixed expenses?
A financial plan that tracks estimated income and expenses over a specific period of time.
What is a budget?
Occurring once every 12 months, or once per year.
What is annual?
An interactive platform that helps the class learn together using Draw-it, quiz, video, and poll questions
What is Nearpod?
Finding, hiring, and placing the right people in the right jobs for the company.
What is Staffing?
Costs that fluctuate based on usage or lifestyle, like groceries or utility bills
What are variable expenses?
Money set aside for future use or emergencies rather than being spent immediately.
What is savings?
Occurring once every four weeks; there are 12 of these periods in a year.
What is monthly?
An exercise where students focus on finding numbers in order on a grid.
What is the Concentration Grid Exercise?
The official national motto for Career Technical Education:
What is Learning that works for America?
A cost that contains both a set base rate and an additional usage charge, like a cell phone plan with data overages.
What are mixed expenses?
The general category of costs required for basic day-to-day existence, including food, transportation, subscriptions, and clothing, uses this specific name.
What are living expenses?
A common payroll schedule where employees are paid every two weeks, resulting in 26 paychecks a year.
What is bi-weekly?
These were used during our group work on management to disrupt the groups, and provide real-world examples of what happens in the world of work.
What are chaos cards?
Paying a fee to use a famous brand's name and business model, such as Bojangles, McDonald's, and Taco Bell.
What is a franchise?
A recurring cost for a service, like Netflix or a gym membership, often automated to charge once a month.
What is a subscription?
This calculation, often shown as a pie chart, helps you see what slice of your total income goes toward a specific category and is calculated as amount budgeted divided by total monthly living expenses.
What is percent of budget?
A high-frequency pay schedule that results in 52 paychecks over the course of a year.
What is weekly?
See the consequences of 20 years of investing decisions in just 20 minutes by participating in this activity.
What is Stax?
Using data like age, income, and location to understand and target your customers.
What are Demographics?
The specific amount you pay, usually monthly, to keep an insurance policy active.
What is a premium?
To find this, you might divide an annual bill (like car insurance or home/renters insurance) by 12 to save the right amount each month.
What is a monthly portion?
The recurring timeframe in which an employee's work hours are recorded and paid.
What is a pay period?