Activity 1: My Future Salary (GLE: 8)
CC: Have students research salaries for these jobs for the purpose of finding information about current salaries and inflation rates.
Sites for salary comparisons http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0875856.html ( governmental jobs) http://asp.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/salaries/
http://asp.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/salaries/
State Department records of teacher salaries by parish, by year, by experience is great for comparisons. http://www.doe.state.la.us/lde/finance/1447.asp
Great internet project activity sheet to use above websites to research and answer specific questions about salaries and percent of increase or decrease.
http://www.holychildrye.org/faculty/emorgan/Percent_increase_decrease.htm |