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School District of Oconee County

Financial Fitness 1

Course Number: 581200CW

 

Want to get more for your money? Want to learn to spend your money wisely? If so, this is the course you should take. Financial Fitness 1 is designed to help students develop financial management skills by evaluating marketplace alternatives, creating a personal budget, understanding consumer rights and responsibilities, understanding the impact of career choices on personal goals, and making informed consumer decisions. Learning experiences provide real-life application concepts such as budgeting money, using credit, and avoiding scams, ripoffs and identity theft.

 

There are no prerequisites required for this course.
There are no fees associated with this course.

South Carolina Standards:  (List the standards students are expected to master in this course)

CONSUMER DECISION MAKING

B1. Apply the decision-making process to consumer choices

 

CAREERS

C1.Explore career opportunities and professional requirements for the consumer

and resource management industry.

 

 PLANNING and MONEY MANAGEMENT

 D1.Evaluate financial resource management to meet the goals of individuals and families

 

CREDIT AND DEBT MANAGEMENT

 E1.Analyze the use of credit in financial management.

 

TECHNOLOGY

F1. Evaluate products and services based on technology applications.

 

 

 

Other Standards:  (List national or local standards students are expected to master in this course)

 

FACS Nat’l Standards:

2.1 Demonstrate management of individual and family resources such as food, clothing, shelter, health care, recreation, transportation, time, and human capital.; 2.5 Analyze relationships between the economic system and consumer actions.

 

1.1 Analyze strategies to manage multiple roles and responsibilities (individual, family, career, community, and global). 1.2 Demonstrate transferable and employability skills in school, community and workplace settings.

 

2.1 Demonstrate management of individual and family resources such as food, clothing, shelter, health care, recreation, transportation, time, and human capital.

 

2.6 Demonstrate management of financial resources to meet the goals of individuals and families across the life span.

 

2.4 Evaluate the effects of technology on individual and family resources.

 

 

 

Financial Literacy:

1A Take responsibility for personal and family financial decisions based on needs, wants, and values.

1B Find and evaluate financial information from a variety of sources.

1D Make financial decisions by systematically considering alternatives, consequences, and the economy.

1E Develop communication strategies for addressing individual and family financial issues including needs, wants, and values.

 1F Control personal information.

3D Apply consumer skills to purchasing decisions.

 

2B. Explore employment options for making a living.

2C. Analyze the effect of education and skills on employment.

2D. Analyze how employment choices and economic conditions affect income.

 

 

2E Identify sources of personal income.

2F Describe factors affecting take-home pay.

3A Develop a plan for spending and saving based upon personal and family goals and values.

3C Describe and analyze how to use different payments including banking services.

3E Develop a personal or family financial plan.

 

4A Identify personal and family goals related to credit and debt.

4B Outline responsibilities as related to obtaining and managing personal and family credit.

4C Identify the costs and benefits of various types of credit.

4D Compare types of loans used to finance a car, education expenses, and housing.

 4E Explain the purpose of a credit record and identify borrower’s credit report rights.

4F Describe ways to avoid or correct debt problems.
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Human Services/Family & Consumer Sciences

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