Housing Notes

We started the notes packet for buying a home today. We discussed purchase price, down payment, closing costs, and financing.

This will be our final unit. We will wrap it up next week and then start the review for the final exam.

Final Exam schedule:
2nd period - Wednesday, December 16th at 10:30am
6th period - Friday, December 18th at 10:30am

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Housing Unit - Day 1

Today, we started talking about buying or leasing a place to live. The first activity had students learn some of the terminology used in classifieds. Then, we answered some questions where the answers come from the real estate section of our local classifieds.

Homework: Go to Realtor.com and research some home sales in our area. Bring in information about the sizes, specs, and prices of 5 homes.

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More Review

We've spent all week reviewing for tomorrow's test. Today's focus was on the vocabulary and terminology.

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Utility Review

We started reviewing our Utility Bill concepts today with an overview of utility bill ideas and then some math calculations for the costs and savings based on KWH used, meter readings, and price per KWH used.

Tomorrow, we will continue the review with math calculations for gas and water bills. On Wednesday, we will finish reviewing the concepts by going over vocabulary associated with these 3 utilities. (Remember, Wednesday is an early release/half day.)

There will be a test on Utility Bills on Thursday.

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Utilities - Water

We spent yesterday and today discussing and learning about water utilities: how much water it takes to do normal household activities, the cost of water, and water bills.

Homework: page 238: #10 - 19

Students need to bring in an article & summary tomorrow. The article must deal with one of our utility concepts: electricity, gas, or water.

There will be a quiz next week.

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More Utilities

Last week, students continued working with calculating utilities bills. Calculations with natural gas and therms were done on Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday, we did a variety of problems to review calculating gas bills and electricity bills.

Yesterday, we discussed ways that we could use electicity and gas in more effective manners to keep those bills as low as possible (insulation, limiting oven/dryer usage, turning off lights, lowering the temperature on the theromostat, etc ... ). Today's lesson had us calculation the savings found by upgrading appliances as well as the necessary time to use this lower costing item to be able to pay back for the upgrade.

Homework: page 232, #1, 6, 9, 11; page 233, #14, 15; page 234, #20, 21.

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Utilities, day 2

We talked more about electricity and gas bills today. We discussed the Fuel Adjustment charge and tax added to the total kilowatt-hour usage. There is homework tonight on page 226, #1 - 22.

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