Introduction
How are our tax dollars spent? How much money from each paycheck is used for schools, hospitals, the military and social service programs like Social Security and Public Assistance? These are the kinds of questions you will be researching and answering today.
Task
Your task is to read the following articles and create a google slides presentation in which each slide has one RACE (Restate, Answer, Cite and Explain) response to each question. You will then present your findings to the class.
You will need to:
Read three articles and write a RACE response for each one.
Create a visual picture for each question (you may use or create a pie chart, like the picture in the introduction). In each response, you need to include a picture
Organize your responses into a Google Slides presentation
By the end of the Webquest, you will be able to
Determine how taxes are taken out of a paycheck
Determine how federal (the country's) tax dollars are spent
Process
Step One: Read "How Do Our Taxes Pay For the Many U.S. Programs?" and write a RACE ticket answering the following question:
Identify THREE things the government pays for through taxes.
Print the response and give it to your teacher.
Step Two: Watch the following video, Where Do Our Tax Dollars Go, and create a chart that explains how our dollars are spent.
Step Three: Read the file of Where Your Tax Dollars Go and determine where your taxes go if you lived in the Town of Islip, which is 35 miles away from Riverhead. Write a RACE ticket in which you answer the following question:
Where do most of our money go when in local and homeowner's taxes?
Step Four: Read How to Explain a Paycheck's Witholdings and answer the following question:
Identify three things that are taken out of a person's paycheck.
Evaluation
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Component |
Excellent |
Good |
Needs Work |
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Tasks |
Student completed all of the steps needed to complete the webquest and submitted all the assignments to the teacher |
Student completed some of the tasks necessary to complete the webquest and submitted 1-2 assignments to the teacher |
The student completed only one or none of the assignments necessary for the webquest to be completed |
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RACE Tickets |
The student completed all of the RACE tickets and submitted them to the teacher. |
Student completed 1-2 of the RACE tickets and gave them to the teacher |
The student did not complete any of the RACE tickets |
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Project |
The student worked well with their group and has a plan to create their project |
The student worked with their group and has some idea on how to create their project |
The student did not use his/her time wisely and has no plan to create their project |
Conclusion
Now you have finished! Use this information to work with your group. You will create ONE google slide for each of these tasks. Then you will plan share these findings with your classmates.
You may begin at any time to create your google slides!
Credits
“How Do U.S. Taxes Work?” Newsela, 24 May 2017, https://newsela.com/read/lib-taxes-economics/id/30881/.
World, NowThis. YouTube, YouTube, 18 Sept. 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7f6Z26w0yY.
Aragon, Kathryn. “How to Explain Paycheck Withholdings, Deductions & Contributions to Your Employees.” SCORE, SCORE, 13 July 2019, https://www.score.org/blog/how-explain-paycheck-withholdings-deductions….