Budget Hero in High School Classrooms on February 9, 2011 at 1:07 pm

Please share your thoughts on how to use Budget Hero to teach UFR in high school classrooms.

Edlab UFR Q3 on February 9, 2011 at 11:25 am

Review the table of federal spending by category for 2000-2010 (see handout), and answer the following question in your group reply post:

• Have the budget priorities changed between 2000 and 2010? Which areas of the budget in particular?

Edlab UFR Q2 on February 9, 2011 at 11:22 am

Play this interactive application, Budget Explorer.

1. What are the gaps between your estimates and the 2010 federal budget outlays?

2. What surprised you in the game analysis?

Put your thoughts in the reply post.

Edlab UFR Q1 on February 9, 2011 at 11:17 am

In your reply to this post, please list one item of your current spending of money or time, and write down: 1) The best alternative for this choice and 2) The criteria/reason that helps you make this choice at that time. The best alternative you have in your answer is your “opportunity cost”.

Here is one reply example:

• Current Spending: I bought a bottle of orange juice for $3.99
  at the corner store.
• Best Alternative: Buying the same bottle of orange juice at a big
  supermarket for a lower price of $2.99 and saving the $1 to use for something else.
• Criteria/Reason: I know it is more expensive to buy the juice at the daily store. However, it saves me time.

Edlab UFR Quiz 3 on February 9, 2011 at 11:09 am

Please spend 30 seconds to complete this quick UFR Quiz

Edlab UFR Quiz 2 on February 9, 2011 at 11:08 am

One trillion dollars can buy a $3 Latte for you and 23 generations of your children every day for life.

Edlab UFR Quiz 1 on February 9, 2011 at 11:07 am

One trillion dollars can pay for an additional 3 months vacation for every American worker.

True False on February 8, 2011 at 4:32 pm

The budget is balanced, true or false?

My personal debt, as a teacher… on February 8, 2011 at 2:34 pm

What would the effect be of me purchasing a new Camero?

another quiz test on February 3, 2011 at 5:34 pm

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UFR Quiz! on February 3, 2011 at 5:27 pm

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Understanding Fiscal Responsibility Quiz on February 2, 2011 at 2:33 pm

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Am I a Pepper too? on January 28, 2011 at 5:14 pm

Multiple Classes on January 6, 2011 at 10:34 am

How do we deal with multiple classes? Repost Posts to all sites? One site for each Class?

Types of Posts on January 6, 2011 at 10:24 am

Update Posts – Here is what we’re doing

Inquiry/response prompts – Answer a question etc.

Create a set question bank for teachers to pull posts from.