1. Budgeting Apprentice Challenge Learning Objective: To develop the skill of budgeting by finding cost effective ways of buying household items.

2. Food Prices Think back to the amount of money you allocated yourself for food each month last lesson... Why might the following clips prove a problem for many people?

3. The Apprentice Challenge! You will each have a list of food items that you need to purchase. Your challenge is to buy these items spending the LEAST amount of money possible. You can visit any store you like but you will need to record on your spreadsheet how much the item cost and where it is from. The group who spends the least amount wins! How to get started: 1)Go to the Wildern WIN. 2)Click on CSI and Year 9. 3)Scroll down to the ‘When I Grow Up Unit’. 4)Open the folder called Lesson 4 Apprentice Challenge 5)Download the Excel Spreadsheet 6)Click on Sheet 1 to find the food items you need.

4. Extension Challenge If you have finished your food challenge, you now need to click on Sheet 2. It is Christmas and you need to buy presents for the people on your list. You need to buy each of these items for the least amount of money possible.

5. Reflections Was this an easy/difficult challenge? Would you be happy to budget like this on a weekly basis? Would you have approached the challenge differently if you were feeding a family?