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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students discuss the reasons for having a budget. They create their own personal budget and explain how the bartering system can work for some items today. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students examine several examples of budgets to develop a facility with the components of its formation. Income, expenses, and expenditures are considered and itemized for this lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze the influence of culture, media, technology, and other factors on health and examine a hospital budget. They create a budget for a hospital taking in account factors such as staff and departmental needs and necessary expenses. they display their information using a spreadsheet., Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students identify elements of a personal budget and explain why personal spending and saving decisions are important. They create a budget and write a paragraph explaining the importance of spending and saving decisions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
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Students role play the role of a recent graduate of high school living on their own. Using play money, they are given one month's salary and they discover they own their own house or apartment and owe money on a car loan. They develop their own budget based on what they need to live and pay their own taxes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students study their local budgeting process. They analyze goods and services in their local government and compare it to a recent budget. They simulate the ideas of scarcity and resource allocation and research the budget process in recent years. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 12th
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Students engage in a simulated city council budget meeting and must decide which programs to cut or fund and whether or not to raise taxes. They develop coalitions with lobbyists or community groups while class members sign up to speak at the mock hearing. Student council members then make decisions based on the input of the community speakers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students brainstorm a list of items that should be a priority for the government to help its citizens. Using an out of date budget, they identify individual line items and the conflicts involved in making a budget work. They discuss how the Board of Supervisors helps shape public policy in the county. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students construct a budget for a family of four including a column for income and no less than ten columns for expenses, all of which will be expressed and totaled in dollar amounts. They are also requested to write a scenario in which they will choose a profession, number of people in their family, and any special situations within their family. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate the concept of the National Budget using a fictional budget. The challenge is for students to use the resources efficiently for the maximum benefit of the country. They vote on the budget as a class being fictional members of congress. Full Review »
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