Sample Lessons

Writing a Check/ATM Cards

Go to: http://banking.about.com/od/checkingaccounts/ig/How-to-Write-a-Check/1write_a_check_step2.htm  Under “More Resources” hit: Video: How to Write a Check.  Watch the video and then answer these questions using the sample check on the next page.

1. What line tells who you’re giving your money to? ________________________
2. What word do you use to “show” the decimal when you write out the dollar amount? Circle it.
3. What should you put in the “Memo” section of the check? _________________
4. Highlight in blue the numbers that indicate your bank.
5. Highlight in yellow the numbers that indicate your account number.

More Finance Stuff

1.     Now go to “8 Reasons Never to Write a Check” and name three:

a.     _________________________________________

b.     _________________________________________

c.     _________________________________________

2.     Use the Sample Check Register (following the sample check) to enter a check. Enter the sample check.

If you just use your ATM, you won’t have the “subtraction” of a check register. How will you keep track of how much you’re spending? 

Highway History 

Highways and roads are usually laid out in a grid, like graph paper.  

Some streets or highways run north and south, others east and west.

Now, if rivers, hills or other obstacles get in the way, the streets may circle around and not keep this pattern.  

Sometimes streets also cut across town at a diagonal, but usually it is easier to build on a grid.

·      In the U.S. highways that go east-west are even numbers. 

·      Highways that go north-south are odd numbers.  (A few aren’t—but this is usually the rule.)

·      Odd numbers increase from west to east. 

·      Even numbers increase from south to north.

·      Major, long distance routes are divisible by 5. 

... and how to get around the country. 

Look at the map and answer the following questions:

1. What number highway runs north-south through the center of the state? _____________

2. What highway runs north-south along the coast?_________

3. Name the three east-west highways closest to your town. _______________________

4. Which highway would take you to Las Vegas?_______________

5. Which highway would take you to Yosemite?____________

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