Unit: Consumer Analyze the use of available resources to achieve goals.

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Unit Consumer Analyze the use of available
resources to achieve goals.

• Obj. 9.01 Identify available resources.

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Available Resources

• Resources available
• A. Human
• 1. Knowledge
• 2. Skills
• 3. Imagination
• 4. Energy
• 5. Time
• 6. Family
• 7. Friends

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Available Resources

• B. Material (also known as Non-Human) physical
  objects you can use to accomplish your goals.
• 1. Technology
• 2. Possessions
• 3. Money
• C. Natural
• D. Community- people facilities organizations
  that help you enjoy life, improve your skills and
  solve your problems.

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Available Resources

• Spending more time with friends than online
  chatting with strangers is a positive way to
  manage technology.
• Oil is a natural resource that cannot be replaced
  within the environment.
• Imagination is a human resource that can be used
  to entertain young children while babysitting
  them.

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Available Resources

• Talking a class, listening to friends, and
  listening to radio programs could all be
  classified as human resources to use to achieve a
  goal.
• Material resources are personal possessions like
  money, books, and clothes.
• To reduce the amount of trash (garbage) in the
  environment, one can recycle, reduce, and reuse
  products.

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Available Resources

• Writing a paper for school, would be an
  advantage, of using a home computer.
• Money would be a nonhuman resource.

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Unit ConsumerTeen Living

• Obj. 9.02 Managing resources

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Managing resources

• A. Wants (something that you would like to have)
  and Needs (something that you must have to live).
• B. Goals a conscious aim that requires
  planning and effort to achieve.
• 1. Short term something you want to accomplish
  soon.
• 2. Long term something you can plan to
  accomplish sometime farther in the future,
  perhaps 6 months.
• 3. Fixed one that can be met only at a certain
  time. (Ex High School Diploma Age 21 or
  monthly car payment bill will be the same every
  month)
• 4. Flexible one that has no definite time
  limit. Ex long distance phone bill (bill will
  change from month to month)

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Managing resources

• Dovetailing doing 2 things at one time,
  simplifying time.
• Resourceful using resources around you to get a
  job done.
• Barter trading resources with someone else.
• Prioritize you decided which needs and wants
  are more important than others are.
• Improvising making another plan when one does
  not work out.

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Managing resources

• C. Management process
• 1. Planning
• A. Assess the situation
• B. Develop a task list
• C. Identify your resources
• D. Decide on your priorities
• 2. Organizing
• A. Develop a schedule
• B. Assemble the needed resources
• C. Prepare to act

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Managing resources

• 3. Implementing
• A. Put the plan into action
• B. Monitor the plan and your progress
• 4. Evaluating
• A. evaluate the plan
• B. evaluate your performance

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Managing resources

• When you make a list of homework you have go to
  do, you are in the management process step 1 of
  planning.
• Wants can be considered extra things people
  acquire to make life more enjoyable.
• Needs are basic things that people must have to
  survive like food and water.

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Managing resources

• Setting aside money from a weekly paycheck to
  buying a car later in the future would be a good
  example of a long term goal.
• Clothes for each family member to wear would be a
  family need that must be met.
• Using a family car is a want for a teenager, but
  not a need. Having clothes to wear would be a
  need.

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Managing resources

• Having a bathroom for every family member would
  be a want, not a need. Having just one bathroom
  available is a need.
• Effective planning means that a person will use
  time wisely.
• Passing the VOCATS ASSESSMENT TEST would be a
  fixed goal for a 15 year old student.