Scope & Sequence with Essential Learnings
Semester 1
Unit 2 Business
Unit 2: Performance Assessments
- Describe and compute supply and demand
- Describe and compute break-even points
- Write and graph revenue and expense functions
- Create a profit equation
- Determine maximum profit
- Describe fixed and variable expenses
- Compute linear regression
- Unit exam
Unit 2: Leadership Alignment
- Create a Business Project
Unit 3 Banking
Unit 3: Performance Assessments
- Reconcile a checking account with a bank statement
- Compute simple interest
- Compute future value of investments
- Unit exam
Unit 3: Leadership Alignment
- Banking Presentation
- Checkbook Balance Activity (if in school building)
Unit 4 Consumer Credit
Unit 4: Performance Assessments
- Compute monthly payments
- Compute finance charges
- Determine monthly payments from a table
- Describe basic credit cards
- Compute average daily balance
- Unit exam
Unit 4: Leadership Alignment
- Pay off your credit card debt project
- Credit Card comparison activity
Unit 5 Automobile Ownership
Unit 5: Performance Assessments
- Describe various types of auto insurance
- Compute insurance costs
- Compute depreciation
- Unit exam
Unit 5: Leadership Alignment
Unit 6 Employment
Unit 6: Performance Assessments
- Compute monthly salary
- Compute percentage-based pay
- Compute the value of employee benefits
- Compute payroll deductions
- Unit exam
Unit 6: Leadership Alignment
- Employment Benefits and Paychecks Project
Semester 2
Unit 1 Stocks
Unit 1: Performance Assessments
- Describe the basic function of stocks
- Compute dividends, interest, and yield
- Compute gains and losses
- Use technology to model financial data
- Unit exam
Unit 1: Leadership Alignment
- Student Stock Market Project - Investopedia
Unit 7 Taxes
Unit 7: Performance Assessments
- Compute taxes using tax tables
- Interpret income tax charts and graphs.
- Complete tax forms
- Interpret and use the information on income statements
- Describe the difference between a tax credit and a tax deduction
- Unit exam
Unit 7: Leadership Alignment
Unit 8 Housing
Unit 8: Performance Assessments
- Calculate monthly rent
- Describe lease signing costs
- Compute the monthly cost of owning a home
- Calculate closing costs
- Amortization Table Project
- Unit exam
Unit 8: Leadership Alignment
- Apartment Hunt Project
- Buying a house investigation Project
Unit 9: Performance Assessments
- Compute the future value of investments
- Calculate retirement contributions
- Describe the benefits paid by Social Security
- Unit exam
Unit 9 Retirement
Unit 9: Leadership Alignment
- Preparing for Retirement Project
Unit 10 Budgeting
Unit 10: Performance Assessments
- Create a budget
- Determine cash flow
- Unit exam
Unit 10: Leadership Alignment
- Budget App Project
- Budgeting Simulation Project