Love That Job!

TIE 2012

Tell Me About The Game…

Love That Job is designed to teach students:• Critical thinking skills in an authentic setting of

career choice and life budgeting• Scaffold of guided research• Reality check of needed life skills and decision

making

Academic Areas

• Math• Internet research skills• Writing• Technology:

Word processing with imported Internet graphics

Excel Using online sites and calculators

What It Looks LikeStudent Name:

Professional career:

Family:

INCOME Amount DescriptionMonthly Salary $0Life card 1 $0 What's my luck?Life Card 2 $0 What's my luck?

TOTAL Income $0What I have to spend for one month?

EXPENSES Amount

Necessities I can't do without these

Housing $0.00 Monthly Mortgage payment

Household Operation $0.00 Water, phone, electricty, gas,etc.

T ransportation $0

$____car payment (includes insurance and gas)

Marital Satus:

Sarah Snuffy Library Arts

October 30, 2010

Sarah’s House

$375,000 6 Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms 1608 Square Feet Two Levels No Basement

Will This Game Work For You?

• Skill evaluation:• Math vocabulary (budget, mortgage, income)• Math concepts of expense and income• Research skills• Technology: Excel spreadsheet, Word with imported Internet

graphics, Internet navigation

• Critical thinking skills:• To be a … I need to go to school for …• Is that an expense or income• If I buy that house, I can’t buy that car

TEACHER INFO

• Need Internet access• Need to allow time to teach basic tech info

Using Internet links Word formatting Saving documents and handing in virtually

• Need to allow time to teach ‘Budget’ concepts: income, expenses, education degrees

What does this look like in a “real” classroom?

Let’s play a mini-game

1. You will play using a practice budget: one professional and one technical.

2. Decide which house and which car as you assess your budget.

3. Answer this question:• What do I need to know to understand to

be able to make this decision?