ND Curriculum Initiative

Subject & Standards

Understandings & Goals

Enduring Understanding: It is my goal to teach the students the process of banking: deposits, checking, balancing a checkbook, and know the rights and responsibilities as a checkwriter. Goal(s): To understand and experience the procedure and mathematics of a checking account

Questions Answered

Essential questions: 1. What is the correct way to write a check? 2. What is the correct way to balance a checkbook? 3. What are the rights and responsibilities of the checkwriter? 4. What is the papertrail of a check? Objectives: To identify the procedure of checkwriting To identify the procedure of balancing a checkbook To identify the rights and responsibilities of a checkwriter To identify the importance of math skills in being an actual checkwriter To experience and actual working bank To become familiar with Wells Fargo Bank “Banking on Our Future” software

Assessment

What quiz and test items (e.g. simple content-focused questions that require a single, best answer) will provide evidence of understanding? traditional quizzes, question/answer test What academic prompts (e.g. open-ended questions or problems that require students to think critically and then to prepare a response / product / performance) will provide evidence of understanding? practice sheets designed by students and check each other for accuracy What performance tasks and projects (e.g. complex challenges that are authentic, mirror the real world and require a performance or product) will you include that will provide evidence of student understanding? actual checkwriting exercises, actual recording in a transaction register, use Wells Fargo software What other evidence (e.g. observations, work samples, dialogues, student self-assessment) of understanding will you collect?  samples of their hands-on-work