Mr. David Peng shares a video of student projects from his Personal Finance class. For our project in the budgeting unit, students planned a Friendsgiving dinner, potluck style. Each person is responsible for bringing in a dish, with the total cost of ingredients split among each other. Students had to look up recipes for each dish as well as research the cost of ingredients, with all of the information complied into an expense report. While not required, the goal for each group was to maintain a budget of under $15 per person. Finally, each group had to create an attractive menu detailing the dishes that will be served.
The students had great insight into the cost of making food vs. going out to eat, how setting a budget allows them to pick dishes and comparison shop for ingredients, and how to save money by not having too many leftovers (which they will find out soon is not as easy as it sounds).
Here’s the link to the project for each group. I will try to add more folders throughout the day, but figured I can send you this for now to include the link.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1exJCwXR-B3B9v5-f3V81KHefF5yF2EdP?usp=sharing
