Planning an AOP Lifepac

Home Economics Lifepac 8

lesson plans worksheet

***Looking at student's book***

Contents Overview:
The parts and comments:
I. Getting a Job, 3 - 17; includes a test
II. Personal Finance, 18 - 43; includes a test
III. Legal Matters, Forms, and Contracts; 44 - 53, includes a test

***Looking at teacher's book***

Note: The vocabulary has items that would be best seen. Plan to visit a home improvement store at the beginning of this unit.

Materials list:
typing paper
ledger paper or lined paper

***The amount of time we can spend on this***

Time allotted: 5 weeks (up to 25 days)
NOTE: This may be too slow a schedule if you are planning to complete all 10 Lifepacs in one school year. We are using 5 lifepacs per year, taking two years to complete the Home Ec course.

***Choosing a planner***

Use a 5 x 5 grid, thumb through book taking note of activities, questions, tests, field trips, etc. and start filling in page numbers, try not to overload:
Printable version of this to glue inside front cover of workbook

I. Read the glossary on pages 53-54. Read pages 1 and 2.	Getting a Job: read pages 3-5	The Resume: read pages 6-10, stop at 1.7	write your resume: page 10 - 1.8	The Interview: read pages 10-15
page 15 activity 1.18: Job Interview	self test 1: pages 16-17	II. Personal Finance: read pages 18-22	22-27	27-28; activity 2.49
29-31;activities 2.50 and 2.51	Credit Records: 31-34; activity 2.62 (remember activity 2.51)	Insurance: pages35-37	Income Tax: pages 37-41	Look back on activity 2.51 and answer questions.
study 18 - 41	Self test 2 pages 42-43	III. pages 44-45	45-47	47-48
48-51	study for test 3	self test 3: pages 52-53	study for unit test	Unit Test 8