Please use the Toontastic app, currently on all the iPads, demonstrating a poor use of credit. Your comic strip animation must show not just an unwise purchase, but the rates and the results. Think beyond just the credit card (although this is certainly an option) to other types of credit. Full credit (ha!) comes from showing why this use of credit is unwise within the comic strip — articulate the results over time. Please consider this to be a required task for the points. Any student who does not complete the credit comic strip will lose the point value.

Simple project here, but if you actually had to do it (or if you do indeed run your own business someday, then you definitely will do it), it would be daunting. Imagine a small business possibility. Some ideas? Coffee shop. Simple restaurant. Book store. T-shirt printing shop. Catering service. Musical instrument shop. Or whatever you can think of. But when you start, it looks like empty. You have to develop it entirely. So the task here is this: figure out exactly what the inside of whatever business you envision would look like, right down to the finest detail. Shelves. Product. Displays. Wall coverings. Materials. Everything. You’ll need a diagram to really see what it is you’re doing, for sure.

Then, price it! All of it! What would it cost to open the doors in this business? Put it in a list with related cost, then total the costs to see what it would actually cost. Then show me.

 

1. You are given $500 to spend online to shop for their winter wardrobe.
2. You must buy a coat, pants, shirts, shoes, socks, underwear, gloves, boots and hats.
3. You can also buy any sports clothing they need.
4. You may use any store websites.
5. You will also add in a shipping charge of $10.00 and calculate a 20% discount for shopping online. The applicable tax will be 9.5% and must be added into their cost. They may not go over $500.
6. You must show all items purchased and costs.

Road Trip

 

Step-by-Step Instructions:

You will design a road trip itinerary that requires the following:

1. You must visit at least one of each of these items on their road trip; school/university, professional sports stadium, national park, local hot spot, and amusement park.
2. Decide on the type of vehicle used for trip and report it’s estimated gas mileage.
3. All travel must be completed within the time frame of 10 to 14 days.
4. You cannot travel more than 10 hours in one day.

In groups of 2-3, you will use the computer to research and decide upon the 5 required destinations. Next you will decide the order in which you will visit the destinations, based on the mileage between them. Calculate how much driving time is required to visit all the destinations and develop an itinerary based on the 10 hour driving limit per day. If your trip cannot be completed within 14 days, you must adjust your destinations to be able to meet the travel restrictions, or stay overnight in a location between the scheduled destinations.

After you have developed an itinerary, you will need to search for lodging for each night of your trip. You may stay wherever you like, but the cost for each night must be included in your total costs.

Each day you will need to eat. Calculate the cost for breakfast, lunch and dinner of each day and total food cost. Where and what you eat is up to you.

Once all the required information is collected, be sure to calculate the following items:

1. Total miles driven, miles driven each individual day and average miles per day
2. Total gas cost, avg gas cost per day
3. Cost for each attraction visited and total for all attractions
4. Total food costs, cost of each meal and avg per day
5. Total cost for accommodations, each day cost and avg per day
6. Grand total of all costs for entire trip, total avg cost per day