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Alex: Completing a Free Application for Federal Student Aid
Students will understand the importance of filling out the FAFSA application and complete a practice FAFSA. This instructional activity has a financial aid component.
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Alex: Career Planning
The learners will explore careers that interest them.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fafsa Dummies Brochure
This lesson gives students the opportunity to take a hands-on approach to learning about FAFSA. Students will research and compile information and graphics to create a professional, tri-fold brochure containing information about FAFSA...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Financial Aid
This Career/Tech lesson on Financial Aid is an introduction to the process of applying for financial assistance for college. Students will demonstrate the ability to identify, obtain, integrate, understand, interpret apply and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How to Complete the Fafsa
Learners will research a career and determine educational options and understand how to complete Free Application for Federal Student Aid. This lesson contains a financial aid component.
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Alex: How Much Will College Cost Me?
Students will research the cost of college by comparing a 2-year and a 4-year institution via the Internet. Students will follow-up with a presentation and prepare a monthly budget. This lesson plan contains a financial aid component.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fafsa Can Be Taxing!
Complete tax forms and use these to complete a FAFSA worksheet. This project contains a financial aid component.
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Alex: How Wide Is My World?
Students will learn how to gather information, design, and create a presentation, publication, and a web page that reflect a desire for the students to make a difference in their world. Essential components of each multimedia will be...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Dressing the Part
Dress code requirements in business and school are always a controversial topic. In this project students will research the value of dressing appropriately for a variety of settings to include business and school. They will research...
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Alex: Protecting Your Identity
Students will create a database of Identity (ID) Theft Protection Services. Students will create a database report with recommendation regarding individual companies' that provide identity theft protection services and which company has...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Much Will This Lifestyle Cost?
Students will create a detailed monthly budget using a spreadsheet. The budget will depend on an individual's earning potential as determined by career choice and education. This is a project-based, Commerce and Information Technology...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ctso Recruitment for the "Tech Savvy"
Career Tech Student Organization (CTSO) should be an integral part of Commerce Information Technology courses. This lesson will allow students to take an active role in promoting their CTSO organization. This lesson is an ideal teamwork...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Christmas Creations
Young scholars will create their own Christmas ornaments and gift labels. Students must be able to set up the formatting for these documents appropriately using graphic design software. (Please also see project-based lesson plan...
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Alex: Marketing Your Business
Marketing is the activities of a company associated with buying and selling a product or service. It includes advertising, selling, and delivering products to people. In order to successfully market and sell your products and /or...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Our Business
Students (working with a partner) will create a business. This project can be used at the end of the year as a major project or divided up into smaller lessons. Project incorporates all of the content standards.
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Alex: Correspondence for the Real World
As future employees, students should be aware of the various forms of business correspondence. Students will learn how to use wizards and templates from a word processing software to create business letters. This project allows students...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Snail Mail or E Mail Blast!
Students will use business letters and email to recruit professional members for the Career Technical Student Organization (CTSO) using the Chamber of Commerce member listing. This lesson plan is targeted toward Future Business Leaders...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Preparing for Tax Day
This unit is to expose students to different types of earnings, determine gross earning, calculate payroll deductions, and net pay. This project will have students journalize payment of payroll, employer payroll taxes, and payment of...
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Alex: My Career Plans Presentation
Young scholars will research a career of their choice. A PowerPoint presentation will be created and presented to the class. This is a Commerce and Information Technology lesson plan.
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Alex: Who Am I? What Have I Done? Where Am I Going?
This is a project-based lesson plan designed to guide students through the creation of a digital career portfolio. This lesson is only a guide based on the requirements from a Career Tech Student Organization. This is a Commerce and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Clock Tower
This project resulted from the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher (pre-engineering), Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Are You Wearing?
Students will use a digital camera to take pictures that will be used to create a multimedia project that illustrates the appropriate and inappropriate dress code for a high school.
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Alex: Charge It?
For this lesson, students will select appropriate and inappropriate uses of credit cards by role-playing a college student who must choose to either use cash or a credit card to pay for a variety of real-life scenarios. This lesson plan...
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Alex: One if by Land, Two if by Sea. . ., or Three if by Air
This lesson will compare the pros and cons of each type of shipping option available to businesses. This is a Commerce and Information Technology lesson plan.