Learning Activities and Assessment
(Describe the tasks to be completed by the student(s))
1. Online Price Search: Students are asked to look up prices of specific items using the online shopping sites for local grocery stores. The list of items to be located is given on the online price search worksheet. Depending on the needs of the individual student, this can be done as a group, with a partner, or individually (each student has their own laptop). The students can initially record the product information on a printed worksheet and then can work as a group, using the SMART board to display the process as they input the data. As their proficiency grows in using the spreadsheet, students can input the data directly into the EXCEL spreadsheet themselves without staff walking them through the steps.
If there is a time crunch, and students only have time to look up the information, they can save their completed worksheets into an “inbox” for a classmate who has data entry as a specific learning objective. (Each student will have regularly scheduled exposure/practice using the spreadsheet, but some students will have additional opportunities to input collected information if that supports their personal vocational goals). During a later follow-up session, staff can review the information and help students learn to interpret the collected data as they review the spreadsheet on the SMART board.
Expected time= 20-30 minutes/per group/per day. 1-3 groups assigned each day. Most students are expected to participate in the online price search activity 2-3 times per week.
To ensure that all students have some exposure to the activity, regardless of their demanding/variable vocational schedules, the teacher will include a sample price search, with its follow-up data entry & interpretation, as part of the Daily Review (a whole class skills-review activity that takes place at the start of each day on the SMART board) during which the students can respond to questions using their clickers and/or a student can come to the front of the class to demonstrate the skill.
2. Weekly Flyer Search: Activity Sheet is from Members of the Community by Lee Hamill and Ann Dunlevy (2000), Verona, WI. IEP Resources. In small groups, students are asked to search through an assigned flyer to locate specific items and to identify the price of a single item. Students then compute the total price, multiplying the price times the quantity. Students can either all complete the same page or each student can complete a separate page.
After students have completed the assigned page, they can input the information into the spreadsheet, in a similar fashion to the process described above in the Online Price Search activity.
Expected time= 20-30 minutes/per group. Most students are expected to participate in the weekly flyer search 1 time each week.
3. Community Price Search: Groups of 2-4 students go with 1-2 staff to a local grocery store to purchase items needed for meal preparation, snacks, special events, and classroom maintenance. An additional group will go grocery shopping 1-2 days per week for local senior citizens who need a helping hand with their shopping. When the groups return to school, they use the information from their receipts (showing the item price and applied discounts) and the packaging (showing the item size) to gather the information needed to fill-in the price comparison spreadsheet. Students use calculators, if needed, to compute the unit price.
Expected time = 60 – 90 minutes / per group. Most students are expected to go to the grocery store and complete the Community Price Search activity at least once per week, with approximately 1/3 of the class going twice per week.
4. Comparison Price Detectives:Comparison Price Sheet. Groups of up to 4 students go to 2-3 stores with 1-2 staff. A separate copy of the worksheet is used for each store. Students locate the pictured items, record where it was located and its price. The student who located each item is listed on the sheet. After the items are located, the students continue to the next store and search for the items and complete the second copy of the sheet. When students return to school, they calculate the cost of the total order at each store visited. The students then input the data as described in the Online Price Search activity.
Expected time= 90-120 minutes/per group. 1-2 groups are expected to participate in the Comparison Price Detective activity each week.
1. Online Price Search: Students are asked to look up prices of specific items using the online shopping sites for local grocery stores. The list of items to be located is given on the online price search worksheet. Depending on the needs of the individual student, this can be done as a group, with a partner, or individually (each student has their own laptop). The students can initially record the product information on a printed worksheet and then can work as a group, using the SMART board to display the process as they input the data. As their proficiency grows in using the spreadsheet, students can input the data directly into the EXCEL spreadsheet themselves without staff walking them through the steps.
If there is a time crunch, and students only have time to look up the information, they can save their completed worksheets into an “inbox” for a classmate who has data entry as a specific learning objective. (Each student will have regularly scheduled exposure/practice using the spreadsheet, but some students will have additional opportunities to input collected information if that supports their personal vocational goals). During a later follow-up session, staff can review the information and help students learn to interpret the collected data as they review the spreadsheet on the SMART board.
Expected time= 20-30 minutes/per group/per day. 1-3 groups assigned each day. Most students are expected to participate in the online price search activity 2-3 times per week.
To ensure that all students have some exposure to the activity, regardless of their demanding/variable vocational schedules, the teacher will include a sample price search, with its follow-up data entry & interpretation, as part of the Daily Review (a whole class skills-review activity that takes place at the start of each day on the SMART board) during which the students can respond to questions using their clickers and/or a student can come to the front of the class to demonstrate the skill.
2. Weekly Flyer Search: Activity Sheet is from Members of the Community by Lee Hamill and Ann Dunlevy (2000), Verona, WI. IEP Resources. In small groups, students are asked to search through an assigned flyer to locate specific items and to identify the price of a single item. Students then compute the total price, multiplying the price times the quantity. Students can either all complete the same page or each student can complete a separate page.
After students have completed the assigned page, they can input the information into the spreadsheet, in a similar fashion to the process described above in the Online Price Search activity.
Expected time= 20-30 minutes/per group. Most students are expected to participate in the weekly flyer search 1 time each week.
3. Community Price Search: Groups of 2-4 students go with 1-2 staff to a local grocery store to purchase items needed for meal preparation, snacks, special events, and classroom maintenance. An additional group will go grocery shopping 1-2 days per week for local senior citizens who need a helping hand with their shopping. When the groups return to school, they use the information from their receipts (showing the item price and applied discounts) and the packaging (showing the item size) to gather the information needed to fill-in the price comparison spreadsheet. Students use calculators, if needed, to compute the unit price.
Expected time = 60 – 90 minutes / per group. Most students are expected to go to the grocery store and complete the Community Price Search activity at least once per week, with approximately 1/3 of the class going twice per week.
4. Comparison Price Detectives:Comparison Price Sheet. Groups of up to 4 students go to 2-3 stores with 1-2 staff. A separate copy of the worksheet is used for each store. Students locate the pictured items, record where it was located and its price. The student who located each item is listed on the sheet. After the items are located, the students continue to the next store and search for the items and complete the second copy of the sheet. When students return to school, they calculate the cost of the total order at each store visited. The students then input the data as described in the Online Price Search activity.
Expected time= 90-120 minutes/per group. 1-2 groups are expected to participate in the Comparison Price Detective activity each week.
Assessment
(Explain how the learning objectives will be assessed.)
Formative assessment is conducted through ongoing observation, task analysis, and data collection. Student work samples (activity sheets) are collected with staff notations about level of independence and accuracy. As students become more independent in their data collection, staff can check the accuracy of their data entry after the student has completed the task. Higher-level analysis is observed during class/group discussions and "what-if" scenarios where students predict the likely effect(s) of changing a particular data point. Daily data about students’ abilities to identify item price, unit price, subtotal, tax rate, and total price is collected through the individual student response clickers as part of the Daily Review conducted on the SMART Board.
Formative assessment is conducted through ongoing observation, task analysis, and data collection. Student work samples (activity sheets) are collected with staff notations about level of independence and accuracy. As students become more independent in their data collection, staff can check the accuracy of their data entry after the student has completed the task. Higher-level analysis is observed during class/group discussions and "what-if" scenarios where students predict the likely effect(s) of changing a particular data point. Daily data about students’ abilities to identify item price, unit price, subtotal, tax rate, and total price is collected through the individual student response clickers as part of the Daily Review conducted on the SMART Board.