Adult Roles and Responsibilities: Using the Kelley Blue Book for Vehicle Purchasing Decisions

Created Feb. 7, 2024 by Sarah Mattern


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:

  1. 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/

  1. 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.

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