Did you know that the Incredibles can teach you about insurance?
Before Watching Before watching the film clip, ask students: What is risk? Discuss that risk is the chance of loss or harm. Students give examples of activities that are risky: riding a bike, skateboarding, etc. After Watching After watching this video clip, provide some advice to the Incredibles. Consider using some of these questions:
All insurance companies are not equal. Check out this activity we created, based on a Tampa Bay Times article, to find ways to check out insurance companies before you buy insurance https://floridafinancialliteracy.weebly.com/blog/be-sure-before-you-buy-insurance Extensions Here are some secondary lessons from the Federal Reserve to further explore insurance:
Florida Standards: Check out the standards you can cover through these activities.
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Buying Online In this clip, Ralph outbids another bidder in an online forum. At first, their bids are slightly higher than other bidders. Then, they end up bidding a very high price for the Sugar Rush Steering Wheel. What happened? Did they make wise choices in their bidding? What could they do differently next time? Help Ralph and Vanellope Make Better Online Shopping Choices Use the following resources to learn about online shopping:
What advice would you provide to Ralph? Online Decision-making Use the PACED decision-making process for yourself. Think about an item you want to buy. Research some different alternatives. These may be different items, or the same item sold by different sellers or stores. Consider your criteria, which may include: price, style, rating of seller, and other features. Evaluate the alternatives. What did you choose? Why did you make this choice?
Use the News!
Florida Standards:
Check out the standards you can cover using the decision-making activities on this post. In this clip, we learn about opportunity cost and decision-making. Before Viewing: Ask students: What do you think happens when the power gets cut at Scrooge McDuck's venue? After Viewing: Well, Scrooge McDuck is true to his name. When the power gets cut, he interprets it as a great savings. Then he tries to save even more money by firing the planned act. What happened to his customers? Evaluate Scrooge McDuck's Choices Use the following decision model to assess Scrooge McDuck's choices. Planning and Goal Setting: This section discusses the information needed to plan for and achieve goals. After the power got cut, what plan did Scrooge McDuck make? Making the Decision: This section identifies the costs and benefits associated with the decision and addresses how to compare costs and benefits before making the decision. What were the costs and benefits of his decisions to save money? Assessing Outcomes: This section addresses how results are measured and when the decision might need to be reconsidered. What were the consequences of his decisions? What is some advice you would give to Scrooge McDuck? Use PACED to Evaluate Other Choices Scrooge McDuck Could Make in the Future Sometimes we make quick choices when we are confronted by a problem. We can use our mistakes to plan for the future. Use the PACED decision making grid to conduct a decision analysis by considering some other choices Scrooge McDuck could have made.
Why is Scrooge McDuck so Thrifty? Watch the video below to understand why Scrooge McDuck is so thrifty with his money. Teach Scrooge McDuck How to Save Money by Saving Energy Scrooge McDuck does everything he can to save money. You can teach him some new ways to save money! Did you know you can save money by saving energy? Use some of the following resources to teach Scrooge McDuck about new energy saving choices.
Use the News! Did you know that Macklemore still shops at thrift shops? Check out our blog post that uses a Tampa Bay times article where Macklemore provides saving advice Learn about the power of compound interest from these two activities we created, based on the Tampa Bay Times Newspaper in Education:
Check out what happens when little kids talk about what they are going to be when they grow up!
What do you think about their ideas? Now watch these two Disney shorts entitled "When I Grow Up" and think about what you want to be when you grow up.
Jobs and Tools
Check out the Whose Tools informational text we created. What are some of the jobs in the text. What tools do the workers use? How do they use the tools?
When I Grow Up
Watch these two Disney shorts. What do the characters want to be when they grow up? What do you think about their ideas?
DECISION-MAKING ACTIVITY: What do I want to do when I grow up? Planning and Goal Setting: Students investigate a variety of career options. To make an informed decision, students need to gather information about possible jobs or careers. In this activity, students investigate the following websites and choose three possible careers and answer the following questions: 1) Why do you find this job interesting?; 2) What does the worker do?; 3) What is the wage or salary?; 4) What skills are required?; and, 5) What is the education/training required? Little kids can use the following resources for research:
Making the Decision: With the information you have gathered, weigh the costs and benefits of the particular career choices using a PACED Decision-making grid.
Assessing Outcomes: After students make a decision, they still must decide if they are satisfied with their choice.
Look at the choices you made. Consider the education and skills you will need. Think about the salary. What job would you choose? Explain why you chose that job. Use the News! Check out the want ads in the news to look for different opportunities in your area.
Check out the standards you can use with the activities on this post. The Cave of Wonders advised: “touch nothing but the lamp,” but Abu couldn't resist the shiny thing. Think of a time that you really wanted something, but needed to save the money to buy it. What did you decide to do? Should you spend your money on those daily goodies or should you save your money to buy something you really want? Opportunity cost is the opportunity you gave up when you made a choice. What is the opportunity cost of buying those daily goodies? What do you give up? Make a Budget! In this activity, students make a budget after conducting research. Secondary For secondary, use the budgeting basics and calculators for from Practical Money Skills. Check out the Federal Reserve lesson plan on budgeting and download the budget planning spreadsheet below.
After gathering information, students create informational or persuasive posters, public service announcements, songs, or digital stories/memes about making budgets. Elementary For elementary, download the informational texts: Piggy Bank Primer and Great Minds Think. Educators can order free class sets of Piggy Bank Primer and Great Minds Think from the Federal Reserve.
Budget Activity in Great Minds Think Use Great Minds Think: A Kid's Guide to Money to learn about budgets and then complete the budget worksheet on page 7. Students can also use Budgeting Basics to conduct more research. Activities for Piggy Bank Primer 1) Activity 1: Project (pp. 4-6) Piggy Bank Primer: Saving and Budgeting on a screen (or have students read in their individual copies). Students discuss and write how we make choices about the goods and services we want. 2) Activity 2: (pp.7-11) Piggy Bank Primer: Saving and Budgeting. Students discuss and write about why they can't have everything they want and how they can prioritize their wants (refer to the activity on pages 8-9 where they have to decide which goods and services they can buy now and which ones they must save to buy. 3) Activity 3 (pp. 12-15) Piggy Bank Primer: Saving and Budgeting. Students should understand that opportunity cost is the value of the next best thing they gave up when they made a choice. 4) Activity 4 (16-17) Piggy Bank Primer: Saving and Budgeting. Students should understand how costs are something a decision-maker gives up and benefits are something they gain. On page 17 they make an informed decision by comparing costs and benefits of spending alternatives. Use the News! Use this activity on budgeting we created based on a Tampa Bay Times Newspaper in Education supplement. Watch the Whole New World video. Then, provide some advice to Aladdin on how he can create a budget so he can save for his next new flying carpet. Extension Activities
Florida Standards: Check out the standards covered by the activities on this post about budgets. Do you know why the prince turned into a beast? He refused to help a senior citizen by giving her shelter for the night! What is the lesson? If you can afford to give back, be charitable. Did you know that donations can be tax deductible? This film offers a great opportunity to bring in civic participation and service learning projects as well! Here are some standards connections for this post! Create a Social Media Campaign on Being Charitable! Use the following resources to create a social media campaign on being charitable.
Use the News! You can use these blog posts we created on cooking for charity, running for charity, and the SPCA hosting dog weddings for charity. These activities include articles from the Tampa Bay Times along with standards-based questions. In Toy Story, Bonnie made a new friend. How did she make Forky? While on an adventure searching through a sunken ship, Ariel discovered an old fork. What do you think she did with it? Design Activity Ariel was very resourceful when she found an old fork and put it to use as a comb. Bonnie was also resourceful when she created her new friend, Forky. Find some unused items in your house or recycling bin and discover ways to put them to new use. SCAMPER is a tool you can use to think about new uses for items:
Use the News! Did you know that Macklemore still shops in thrift shops? Check out this blog post for an activity on money tips from Macklemore from a Tampa Bay Times article. Buying New or Used Activity
What do you think about Macklemore's thrifty shopping? Complete the following decision-making activity by making choices about buying a product new or used: Planning and Goal Setting: This section discusses the information needed to plan for and achieve goals. Consider a good you would like to purchase. Conduct some online research. Find the product as a new purchase and as a used purchase. Making the Decision: This section identifies the costs and benefits associated with the decision and addresses how to compare costs and benefits before making the decision. What are some of the costs and benefits of purchasing the new product? What are some of the costs and benefits of purchasing the used product? Assessing Outcomes: This section addresses how results are measured and when the decision might need to be reconsidered. What did you choose? Why did you make that decision? What was your opportunity cost? Create a persuasive opinion piece or social media post about your choice.
The Cars films provided so many different ideas to pursue. In this post, we will consider some decision-making lessons for buying cars.
Decision-making Model Eliciting Activities (MEAs)
For K-8, here are some Model Eliciting Activities we have created based on car choices:
Open-ended Decision Making Activity for Cars
Use the decision-making activity to make choices about cars. Make some choices about cars you would like. Then, conduct some online research about those cars. Fill in your data on the PACED Decision Making Model.
The film Zootopia is filled with many important themes. In this post, we will focus on a very small scene, where Nick the Fox becomes an entrepreneur and starts his own Pawpsicle business.
In this scene, Nick the Fox bought the Jumbo Pop in the elephant's ice cream store and used entrepreneurial thinking: he melted down the pop, refroze it in small molds, and sold the the "pawpsicles" to the lemmings. Do you think he made a profit?
The Jumbo Pop cost Nick fifteen dollars. After melting down the goods, he created 90 of his pawpsicles at two dollars each. What was his profit?
Use the News!
Would you want to become an entrepreneur and start your own business? Would you rather provide a good or a service? Complete the decision-making activity after you conduct some research about entrepreneurship by using this blog post using the Tampa Bay Times https://floridafinancialliteracy.weebly.com/blog/do-you-want-to-work-for-someone-else-or-for-yourself Decision-making Activity: Why would you want to become an entrepreneur? Planning and Goal Setting: If you were to start a business, would you rather provide a good or a service. For example, would you rather start a lemonade stand or a dog-walking service? Making the Decision: Interview some people who have their own businesses. What are some of the benefits of starting your own business? What are some of the risks? Assessing Outcomes: After completing both activities, would you rather become an entrepreneur and start your own business or would you rather work for someone else? Students could use the ReadWriteThink persuasion map to make an argument for one side.
Use Design Thinking!
You can also use design thinking to plan your own good or service. Entrepreneurs try to improve on the world or create something new.
1) Improve something: First of all, look at the world around you and find a good or service. Ask: What is? Define the good, service.. Then ask: What if? Brainstorm some ideas on how to improve, change, or replace the good or service. Narrow down your ideas to the one that wows. Then pitch your idea to your classmates. Now revise your idea based on your customer's needs and wants.
2) Invent something. Look at the world around you and define a problem. Then ask: What if? Brainstorm some solutions and narrow them down to one that wows. 3) Present your idea as a pitch. Test your idea and refine based on customer needs and wants.
Florida Entrepreneurs
You can also use this informational text and lesson we created on Florida Entrepreneurs!
Additional Lesson Plans and Resources on Entrepreneurship:
I Can Be an Entrepreneur Spotlighting Entrepreneurs: A Technology "iCon" Video about entrepreneurs Federal Reserve Infographic About Entrepreneurship NIE informational text on Entrepreneurship DeciWhen the world decided it no longer wanted assistance from superheroes, Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl were out of a job. Discuss the reality of this happening to your students in the future. Tell students that they should always be prepared to be lifelong learners, always learning new skills. Use the News! What if your favorite superhero was suddenly out of a job? Use our blog post on using the news to plan a new future for your favorite superhero https://floridafinancialliteracy.weebly.com/blog/use-the-news-to-plan-your-future Then, conduct a search through these resources for more ideas:
Decision-making Activity Use the PACED decision-making model to make a decision for your superhero's next job.
Planning for College
In another activity, you can have Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl make plans for college using the following interactives:
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