The NGPF Curriculum team has made some changes to the Budgeting unit in the Semester Course. Keep reading to find out what they are! 

Major updates to Lesson 10.4 Budgeting for Transportation  

The old version of this lesson used to focus primarily on buying a car and the costs of car ownership. However, with the release of the Buying a Car Mini-Unit last year, teachers now have a much more comprehensive set of lessons to teach this content to their students. 

Therefore, we expanded the scope of Lesson 10.4 to include budgeting for a wider variety of transportation options, including bikeshare and e-scooter programs, public transportation, and more. The lesson also includes a brand new activity, MOVE: Making Transportation Decisions, where students have to choose a mode of transportation based on a hypothetical scenario and explain their reasoning. 

Lesson 10.6 Budgeting in the Gig Economy is now retired. But wait, there’s more! 

As a part of the work being done on the new Full-Year Course, the Curriculum Team shuffled the Gig Economy content from the Budgeting unit to the Career unit. This change allows students to more deeply investigate the advantages and disadvantages of being self-employed and understand what financial considerations they should take into account. 

The new lesson will be available with the release of the new Full-Year course - look for an email about it in Spring 2024! 

If you still need to access the two OLD lessons, don’t worry! You will be able to access them for a limited period of time in the NGPF Retired Resources spreadsheet, found at the bottom of your Teacher Account. Please note that the old lessons are no longer actively maintained, so they may contain broken links and/or outdated content. 

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