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Students access and implement prior knowledge about government income and revenue
such as Taxes and Subsidies in order to help them better understand the impact of the
Federal Budget on Fiscal Policy.
12.3 Students analyze the influence of the federal government on the American economy.
2.Identify the factors that may cause the costs of government actions to outweigh the benefits.
3.Describe the aims of government fiscal policies (taxation, borrowing, spending) and their
influence on production, employment, and price levels.
After the video on this Budget of the 2018-2019 Fiscal Year has been played, the instructor
should direct the students into the next part of the intro activity by starting a conversation
about total debt rather than a budget deficit.
Use the Debt clock on the projector to show students about the financial situation of the
Federal Government. The show be set up on the projector and show to the class, as the
instructors asks 2-3 questions to students about what they see. The instructor will use
student responses to direct the flow of the lesson into the next activity.
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
The goal of this activity will be to work collaboratively by speaking and discussing within
groups to correct match the vocab word to appropriate definitions and match the
conceptual statements to symbol/picture/diagram cards.
The cards will be prepared in advance by the instructor and consist of the big ideas related
to the following reading activity.
The instructor will assess that the group has correctly associated and understood the cards
by:
Circulating and engaging as the students collaborate
Requiring that students present their finished associations the instructor to receive
the materials and directions for the following reading and foldable assignment.
Students who finish the activity early will be instructed to begin reading and annotating the
document before the rest of the class convenes for a entire class close-reading activity.
Help students Identify portions of the text that are crucial to their understanding of
what fiscal policy is, and how fiscal policy influences the economy.
Engages students/ facilitates their learning through managing points of the reading
for individual and paired participation
Identifies key vocabulary not presented in student responses to the whole class
discussions
Keep students interested and engaged by varying the activity with individual
reading, annotations, pair discussions, whole class discussions, and other things.
Document(s) needed:
(ATTENTION) This article argues for cutting taxes and the deficit in order to promote
economic growth. Although this article would be easily considered academic, student must
be made aware of the implicit bias in solution for the current state of economics in the US.
This may function as a great opportunity to teach students how to investigate the sources
of documents. Epically, contemporary scholarly articles.
Material Required:
Instructions from Dinaeh Zike
Graphic of Pie Chart of FY2018 Federal Budget
4 different colored sheets of paper for each student/group of students
Enough scissors for everyone to use
Tape to hold the pieces of the pie graph together
Instructor will put the instruction on the projector screen for the class too see.
Then, explain a brief overview of what is to be done and where the material will be located.
If this is individual, then each student will complete.
If grouped, instructor will have designated 4 roles
1)Supplier
Responsibilities: getting material/ finding directions and information
2) Circle Cutter/ Designer
Role: cut 4 circles to match what is shown in pie chart info graphic on
projector screen
Also, Make sure the foldable looks aesthetically pleasing
3) Writer/Definer
Role: Label the foldable and write a definition for each of the 4 sections
Mandatory
Defense Discretionary
Net interest
Non-Defense Discretionary
Definition should be collaborative constructed based on content specific
knowledge and vocab of the entire group
4) Question Master:
Once the foldable has been approved by the instructor, then this member will
give a list of different types of government expenditure and read them one by one to the
rest of the group. The group will have to determine into which of these four categories the
expenditure fits.
Supplier and Designer must alternate writing the response and explanations to the
questions on a piece of lined paper provided by the group
All students are responsible for staying on task and staying engaged with their group
conversations. About academic content only!
Then, the students will use the remaining time to finish working until the bell rings and
they are excused.
Accommodations for English Learners, Striving Readers and Students with Special Needs
The session is heavily based in conversation and scaffolding during the activities and the
lesson. Els should be able to learn during these operations but the instructor must
continually assess their progress.
Since the time limits are important to the success of this lesson, any groups that are moving
slowly and have not completed the foldable will not be marked down for having an
incomplete item at the end of class. Instead, they will be asked to finish the foldable as
homework and each student should answer one of each of the question master questions in
writing and turn it in during the next class period.