A teacher walking with her student who is carrying several grocery bags and her white cane. The student has earphones on.
Activity

Budgeting and Money Management

An activity to help blind and visually impaired students plan for transition and adult life as they learn about budgeting.

Overview:

This budgeting unit is meant to be an ongoing class to help students plan for transition and adult life. A TVI could implement this budgeting unit ongoing with other lessons taking place simultaneously. Students will be working on learning to budget their money and skills around money management, creating a shopping list for weekly breakfast, lunch and dinner, and computing the budget for the weekly shopping list. Students can create a hypothetical shopping list or this unit could be modified to fit with the shopping program being implemented.

Budget Lesson Activity Plan:

Practice creating Grocery List using master grocery list (teacher created).

This grocery list can be in large print or be an electronic file that can be transferred to a braille note via USB drive/e-mailed to an iPad. 

Students should be responsible for getting grocery shop organized.  Prompting questions:
  1. What do we need for the grocery store?  (bags, lists, money, calculator)
  2. Do we need anything else? 
  3. Do we have our list printed in the format needed for the grocery store? *If student will be shopping with a personal shopper, it is important that he/she has the list and reads from it independently. 

At the Grocery Store:

  1. Students need to have a grocery list with them for the store
  2. Students will go to the information center/customer service at the front to ask for a personal shopper
  3. Shop with a personal shopper and meet at check out
  4. Go through the cart and make sure all our items are accounted for
  5. When checking out have baggers put specific items in different bags to help with organization for home 
  6. Have student practice checking out either couting out money to cashier or using a debit card- ensure independent living skills are being infused at this stage of the lesson. The teacher should gradually prompt or guide less and less until the student is completing the check out independently with the teacher observing.

Collage of budgeting and money management

 

By Tara Mason

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