Contact Log
Conner: Emailed Mrs. Darney at El Sol (11:30)
-Darney teaches several different classes throughout the day
-Requested to stay in her classroom as her classes cycle through and teach all of them
-Would allow us to stay engaged all day and eliminate transportation time and costs
Mrs. Darney,
My group and I had an interesting idea we would like to share with you.
We really enjoy teaching your 6th grade middle class from 8-9, but we also have the rest of the day to work with.
When we originally began teaching, you mentioned several other classes you taught as well.
If you are interested, we would be happy to teach your other classes too and spend some more time at El Sol.
If you are too busy, but know of another teacher that might want us to teach their class, please pass on my contact information.
Thank you very much,
Conner Thomas
Emailed Mrs. Zavala at El Sol (11:40)
-Zavala originally put us in contact with Darney
-Requested for Zavala to put us in contact with other teachers at the school that might be interested in us teaching
Ms. Zavala,
I contacted you earlier this year regarding our entrepreneurship service learning group. You put us in contact with Mrs. Darney and we have been thoroughly enjoying our time working with her and her class.
However, we finish teaching her class around 9:00 which leaves us the rest of the day. We would be interested, for our last couple of service learning days this year, in engaging more classes at El Sol.
If you know of any teachers that would be interested in us teaching their class about entrepreneurship for an hour on February 4th (Wednesday) and March 4th (Wednesday), please pass on their contact information and I will reach out to them.
I appreciate you helping us engage the kids and teach them a little about our passion.
Thank you,
Conner Thomas
James
-Contacted VanDamme School (11:40)
Hi Ms. VanDamme, I'm a senior at sage hill school this year and am part of a service learning group that teaches basic principles of entrepreneurship to middle school students. My service learning group consists of eight members, and we have spent the last year and a half teaching students from El Sol Academy in Santa Ana. We are wondering if Van Damme Academy would be interested in having our group visit to teach a class for about an hour or two.
Bobby:
-Contacted The Pegasus School (11:46)
Mentioned how 3rd grade is an appropriate grade to introduce these ideas due to two programs that Pegasus has called 3rd grade businesses and Entrepreneur day, gave background information for the group’s accomplishments and members, and told them that I’d like to set up a meeting to discuss possible meeting times.
SEE IT Activities and Materials
Jon Skolnik
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Conner Thomas
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Rafe Feffer
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James Kappos
Activity: Supply and Demand
(split the students into two groups)
Group A
“You have a pencil and need candy. You have to trade your pencil for candy. DO NOT TRADE YOUR PENCIL FOR LESS THAN 10 CANDIES.”
Group B
“You have 15 candies, but you need a pencil. You have to trade some candies for a pencil. DO NOT TRADE MORE THAN 5 CANDIES FOR THE PENCIL.”
It is impossible for the students to agree on a price, so after a bit of hearing their bargaining, I will explain to both groups that sometimes things don’t always work out how we want it to, and we need to compromise in order to trade for the thing that we need. Then the two groups should decide on a price between 5 and 10.
Materials: a pencil and some candies
Randy Wang
Activity: The Bean Game
Purpose
Managing money means making choices. There is never enough money available for all of the things we’d like
to have or do. This game will help you decide what is most important to you.
How to Play
This game may be played individually, but optimum results come from playing in a group of 2 or more.
Divide participants into groups of at least 2 and not more than 5. Each individual/group receives 20 beans
and a set of spending category sheets. The individual/group must decide how to spend their “income” based
on life circumstances, values and goals. Each item has a set number of squares which indicates how many
beans are needed to “pay” for that item.
ROUND #1
First, each individual/group must select one item
in each of the categories with the gold stars (Food,
Housing, Furnishings, Transportation, Insurance
and Clothing & Laundry). Once you have finished
selecting items in the required categories,
continue selecting items until you have used up
your 20 bean income.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Why did you choose the items you did? In
what ways were you influenced by your values?
Your goals? Your previous experiences?
Compare what you spent your beans on with
another individual/group.
ROUND #2
Your income has just been cut to 13 beans. What
will you give up? What changes will you make?
Make changes until you only have 13 beans on
your spending sheets.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What kinds of items did you choose to
give up? Why? What did you learn about
yourself and money in this process? Compare
your budget-cutting choices with another
individual/group.
OTHER CHOICES you may have to make…
1) Someone in the family just broke their leg. If
you have insurance, you don’t need to do
anything. If you don’t, take off 3 beans.
2) Your mom or dad just got a 2 bean raise!
Decide where it should be spent.
Materials: beans or candy
Edward Goul
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Harry Miller
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