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It can be a challenge for students to visualize what money can buy during a budgeting activity without investing significant class time to allow for students to research each choice. The Ohio Lifestyle Calculator budgeting tool is a simple way for students to have a pretty good idea of what they can buy with their dollars in suburban, rural, and urban areas in Ohio. In an ideal world, there would be a lifestyle calculator for every state. If you're worried that students will have a tough time relating to Ohio specific locations, you can always have students reference the M.I.T. Living Wage Calculator for differences in the costs of living throughout the country.
Using the Ohio Lifestyle Calculator budgeting tool is an alternative to our lesson CREATE: A Salary Based Budget which would take more class time. My approach in using this interactive in class would be to start out with our MOVE: Organize Budgeting Expenses activity and then transition to using the interactive to connect some relatable images to the facts and figures of the Move activity. A few questions for students to consider after using the interactive are:
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Question of the Day: Where are more people moving: cities or suburbs (2021)?
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Question of the Day: How much would it cost to buy all of the gifts mentioned in the "12 Days of Christmas" song?
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Making a difference in the lives of students through financial capability is Brian’s greatest passion. He comes to NGPF after fifteen years of public school teaching where he was the ‘11 Ohio Department of Education recipient of a Milken National Educator Award, the CEE Forbes Award winner, and a Money Magazine/CNN "Money Hero". He served on the working group for President Obama's Advisory Council on Financial Capability. He has private school experience as a Trustee for the Cincinnati Country Day School and was a past Ohio Jump$tart President. Brian holds a BBA and M.Ed. When Brian isn’t working alongside his NGPF teammates he is likely spending time with his wife, three children, and dog; hiking, or watching Ohio State football.
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