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Personal finance Lesson Plans
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Students investigate personal finances and budgeting. In this personal finances and budgeting lesson, students calculate their cost of living giving various costs of amenities. Students determine if their expenses exceed their income, if so they must re-do their budget.
Eleventh graders confront basic personal finance choices they will face throughout their lives. There is a natural progression to the lessons, beginning with career choices, leading into budgeting and planning, and ending with the impact of credit and long-term savings and investing.
Students explore personal finance concepts. In this money and philanthropy lesson, students define and discuss the terms "spend", "save", "donate", and "invest" as they relate to the personal use of money. Students work in groups to explore many aspects of economic literacy and create financial plans that include graphs representing their decisions.
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students discover the world of personal finance and examine the choice that they make concerning their money.
Students explore the concept of personal finance. In this philanthropy lesson, students examine decisions they make about money as they discover the definitions of philanthropy, resources, scarcity, choice, benefits, costs, opportunity cost, interest, interest rate, principal, simple interest, compound interest, and compounding.
Students determine what to do with money. In this personal finance lesson plan, students discuss budgeting, savings, and loans with their instructor. Students then participate in classroom activities that require them to participate in economic activities.
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this personal finance lesson, students consider economic choices and why people donate to causes. Students investigate the processes of borrowing money and investing money in the lesson as well.
Fifth graders discover how saving money can apply to their lives. For this personal finance lesson, 5th graders use the book The Leaves in October, as a conversation starter on income, savings and setting goals. Students explore the difference between long-term and short-term goals and practice using a savings account passbook. This lesson consists of one whole group activity and two small group activities.
Students make choices regarding money management. In this personal finance lesson plan, students explore budgets, incomes, and expenses as they learn vocabulary regarding personal finance and consider how to create personal budgets.
Students explore the technological problems faced in various critical sectors of society such as personal finance, safety, transportation, energy, and health care as they relate to the Year 2000 computer problem. they read and discuss the article, "Year 200 Computer Problems May Get an Alibi" by Barnaby J. Feder.
