details on how to complete module #6 project based summative assessment.

1. Pick one of the following
choices below and create
an opportunity cost
example of your own.
PowerPoint
Prezi
Voicethread
Video (iMovie, Screenr, Jing)
Capzles

2. You will investigate two different
career paths that you might take in
your future.
Step 1.
Pick two career paths –
First select one what you think you would
like to do as a career and then a second that you
consider to be your next best alternative career
path. (a runner-up, so to speak.)

3. in your summative project
- you are selecting
between two careers paths- investigating both,
then selecting one to follow
and explaining the cost of the career path you didn’t
take (opportunity cost)

4. Pick two- Select what you think you would
like to do as a career and then what you
consider your next best alternative career
path.
*4 year College Degree leading to a
career
*1-2 year technical training leading to
a career
*Joining the Military as a career or
leading to a career
*Immediate Employment upon graduating
from high school.

5. YOU WILL USE THE RESOURCES (links)
PROVIDED IN THIS MODULE TO FIND
INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR TWO CAREER
CHOICES. RECORD YOUR FINDINGS FOR
EACH CHOICE ON
KEEP A RECORD OF YOUR
FINDINGS ON CAREER CHOICE
CHART LOCATED IN THIS MODULE .
AS YOU BUILD YOUR CHART, KEEP IT STORED
IN YOUR GMAIL ACCOUNT, Other email account in
draft form or print it off
SO YOU
CAN USE IT WHENEVER YOU ARE WORKING

6. 1. What will your first choice cost-make sure you
include a breakdown of all cost - time involved(If 4 years of college, tuition, room, board, books, other
expenses)
(If 1-2 technical training then you will need to find out tuition,
room and board [if any] or apartment cost, books or supplies,
etc)
(If joining the military- you will want to say want job you plan
on having in the military and what a military worker makes
after 4 years of being enlisted in the military)
(If immediate employment after graduating high school you will
want to factor cost such as car payments [to drive to work] car insurance
and gas.

7. For each choice find information
about the following:
(continued)
• 2. What will the choice earn you once completed -
Jobs you will qualify for pay-other benefits (health
insurance- savings plans-vacation etc.)
• 3. Details about the opportunity cost lost to your
choice # 1

8. Project Check List(Rubric)
Powerpoint
3 slides for choice one details
3 slides for choice two details
3 slides for details on opportunity cost (What you give up or lose by choosing career choice #1 over choice
#2)
Video
1- 2 minutes on choice #1
1-2 minutes on choice #2
1-2 minutes on opportunity cost (What you give up or lose by choosing career choice #1 over choice #2)
VoiceThread (Podcast, video journals, Powerpoints can all be uploaded to VoiceThread very easily)
1-2 minutes for 1st choice
1-2 minutes for 2nd choice
1-2 minutes for opportunity cost of 1st choice (What you give up or lose by choosing career choice #1 over
choice #2)
Prezi
Intro- what Prezi is about
3 Add (paths) for 1st Choice
3 Add (paths) for 2nd choice
3 Add (paths) for 3rd choice
Capzles
Intro –what the Capzles is about
Time frame of slides that detail the career you have selected
Time frame of slides that show your choice two
Several slides that show the opportunity cost