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Show Me the Future

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Show Me the Future

Grade Levels

10th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade

Course, Subject

Career Awareness & Preparation
Related Academic Standards
11.2.3.A 11.2.3.A
Examine consequences of family, work or career decisions.
13.1.3.G 13.1.3.G
Explain why education and training plans are important to careers.
13.1.5.F 13.1.5.F
Investigate people’s rationale for making career choices.
13.1.11.B 13.1.11.B
Analyze career options based on personal interests, abilities, aptitudes, achievements and goals.
13.3.11.D 13.3.11.D

Develop a personal budget based on career choice, such as, but not limited to:

  • Charitable contributions
  • Fixed/variable expenses
  • Gross pay
  • Net pay
  • Other income
  • Savings
  • Taxes
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  • Big Ideas
    Career choice and preparation are lifelong processes based on many influences and using many strategies.
    Change impacts career options and choices.
    Families are the fundamental unit of society; strong families empower individuals to manage the challenges of living and working in a diverse, global society.
    Interests, aptitudes, and abilities are unique for each individual and play a key role in career choice.
    Personal budgeting is significantly impacted by career choice.
    There is a definitive relationship between education and career planning and choice.
  • Concepts
    Changes that impact traditional and non traditional careers over time.
    Definition and importance of a career plan.
    Factors that impact personal career choices.
    Factors that support career selection.
    Impact of change on career choices.
    Relationship between educational achievement and career success.
    Relationship between personal budget and career choice.
    Relationship of changing roles in the workplace to new career opportunities.
    Relationship of personal interests, abilities, and aptitudes to career goals.
    The relationship between educational achievement and career success.
    The variety of ways people prepare for their jobs.
    Traditional and non-traditional careers.
    Traditional and nontraditional occupations.
    Varied sources of career information.
    Work and career decisions affect the family.
  • Competencies
    Describe the consequences of a recent personal decision.
    Develop an estimated personal budget based on the average income of a chosen career including variables such as charitable contributions, expenses, income, savings and taxes.
    Explain reasons why people work.
    Identify personal interests, aptitudes and abilities that influence career choice.
    Interview an adult and determine what factors influenced their career choices and how they influenced them.
    Make a list of the types of factors that influenced career choices by asking individuals at home who are in the workplace.
    Select some career options that are based on your personal interests, abilities, aptitudes, achievements and goals.
    Summarize ways work and career decisions affect the family.
    Write a paragraph explaining why training plans are important to getting jobs.

Description

Show Me the Future is an online program that allows students to be given a career with a specific salary and then they make personal lifestyle choices and see if the salary that they make is enough to support those choices.  The game also allows for those unexpected events that occur in life that can effect financial strength.

Rationale

This program gets the students to begin thinking about financial goals and lifestyle choice as it relates to career and salary.  It also looks at financial planning and how that is an important piece to selecting a career.

URL or Resource

http://showmethefuture.org/

Content Provider or Additional Information

Mapping Your Future’s Show Me the Future is a financial literacy and life skills game, designed to help 12-20 year olds prepare for their futures.  The game helps players understand:

  • the cost of living;
  • budgeting, which is vital to financial freedom;
  • the difference between wants and needs;
  • the importance of financial planning;
  • the need to set career goals; and
  • the value of higher education.

Mapping Your Future welcomes the use of this game in the classroom and at home.  Users are encouraged to play over and over, as they will have different identities each time, helping them base their choices on those varying circumstances.

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