Adult Roles and Responsibilities: Using the Kelley Blue Book for Vehicle Purchasing Decisions
Adult Roles and Responsibilities: Using the Kelley Blue Book for Vehicle Purchasing Decisions
Grade Level: 10th-12th
Subject: Adult Roles and Responsibilities
Duration: 1 (50 minute session)
DOK Level: 3
SAMR Level: 3
Indiana Standards:
ARR-1.4 Apply management, decision-making, and problem solving processes to accomplish
tasks and fulfill responsibilities
ARR-2.2 Determine personal standards and their effects on life choices
ARR-4.1 Demonstrate processes used to set standards, make choices, and satisfy needs and
wants in areas such as nutrition, wellness, clothing, housing, and transportation
ARR-4.2 Demonstrate skills in seeking consumer information, taking consumer responsibility,
and exercising consumer rights
ARR-5.1 Demonstrate taking responsibility for personal financial decisions
ARR-7.3 Analyze services of financial institutions
ARR-7.4 Apply consumer skills to purchase decisions
Objective:
Utilizing the examples of three vehicles selected from the previous assignment entitled, Adult Roles and Responsibilities: Introduction to Purchasing a Vehicle, students will appraise the quality of each selected vehicle to analyze appropriateness of potential purchase.
Essential Question:
How does the Kelley Blue Book rating of vehicles assist with one’s potential vehicle purchase?
Procedure:
- Students will use the online resource for Kelley Blue Book or Edmunds to appraise each of their selected vehicles for potential purchase.
https://www.kbb.com/used-cars/#survey
https://www.edmunds.com/car-comparisons/
- Once completed, students will provide a slide chart of “pros and cons” for each vehicle and finally justify their final purchase decision based on findings. Students will use Google Slides to complete this documentation with one slide per vehicle and provide a verbal statement to the class of the final decision with rationale for purchase.
Product or Assessment:
Students will complete a Google Slide presentation of their findings for each selected vehicle and provide a verbal statement to the class of their final purchasing decision.
Accommodations:
The assignment can be reduced to one vehicle rather than three. The student can verbally present all material.
Enrichment:
Students could go to a local vehicle dealership and compare/analyze three vehicles on the lot.