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FINANCE AND RESPONSIBLE LENDING.
Students study the role of banks, lending and their services. In this analysis instructional activity, students learn about savings, checking accounts and lending and the importance of banks as financial intermediaries.
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Reading Logs
Students create reading logs. In this reading logs instructional activity, students create a monthly reading log with a theme. The reading log has a goal record sheet, minutes read sheet, and award list.
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Accounting: Changes That Affect Owner's Equity
Students study transactions that affect the owner's equity of a proprietorship. They explore revenue, expenses and withdrawals and how they fit into the accounting equation. They complete online activities and a quiz.
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What Can You Do With Money?
Students watch a Biz Kidz video about money, learn what they can do with money, and fill out worksheets on what they learn. Students learn about spending, saving, donating, and investing.
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It's Your Paycheck
Beyond reading and arithmetic, one of the most important skills for graduating seniors to have is fiscal literacy and responsibility. Start them on the right financial track with nine lessons that focus on a variety of important personal...
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Introduction to Earning Interest: Grades 11-12
Does your bank pay you for allowing them to hold your money? Class members investigate three different ways money can make more money. Topics include certificates of deposit, statement savings accounts, and money market accounts. This...
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There's No Business Like Bank Business
Students participate in a role play where they see how a bank works and how interest is paid by having money in the bank. In this bank lesson plan, students operate a bank and learn about saving, accounts, deposits, withdrawals,...
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Sunburns and Sore Muscles: Working to Save the Farm During the Great Depression
Fifth through eighth graders engage in a lesson in which they study working class people during the Great Depression. They work to develop an understanding of the economic developments in Arkansas during the 1930's. Learners access...
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Real Life Challenge ~ Budget
In this consumer mathematics activity, students complete one month of budgeting by completing each of the statements with the appropriate information. Then they calculate their total expenses for the month minus their savings account...
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Introduction to Earning Interest: Grades 9-10
Does your bank pay you for allowing them to hold your money? The lesson covers three different ways your money can make money. Topics include certificates of deposit, statement savings accounts, and money market accounts.
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Affine Recurrence Plotter
Learners use the on-line affine recurrence plotter to graph equations. They work on-line to create graphs of trout in a trout pond and savings account balances when interest is compounded over time. Links to the four one-day lessons are...
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Percent Word Problems
Take young mathematicians' understanding of percents into the real world with this series of word problems. Involving a variety of contexts from calculating scores on math tests and savings account interest, to determining sale prices...
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Finance Formulas Review Sheet
Keep your finances straight—more like finance formulas straight—with a well-organized formula guide full of everything you need. Starting with simple interest and ending with future and present value, this sheet can be useful for many...
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Investing for the Future
Twelfth graders perform basic calculations for saving and investment strategies. they simulate the investment of $1,000 in the stock market and savings account. they determine which pays the greater dividend.
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Addition and Subtraction: By Checkbook
Students develop an understanding of the need for adding and subtraction skills in balancing a checkbook.
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Money Responsibility
Introduce young learners to the important life skill of responsibly managing money and recording how much they spend and save.
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Saving and Investing for the Long Term
Create savvy investors with an activity that uses an online resource to allow individuals to invest in the stock market. The teacher is able to track activity and progress. Stock tips and strategies are shared.
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Online Reading Logs
Young scholars record book reading and practice spelling and vocabulary on this free online reading-log site. For this lesson, students work online to complete reading logs. Young scholars are assigned 30 minutes a night in reading.
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Savings and Stocks
Work together to brainstorm answers to different questions related to the savings of American people. Draw a bar graph representing stocks. Practice using new economic terms as well.
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Your Budget Plan
What do Whoosh and Jet Stream have in common? They are both characters in a fantastic game designed to help students identify various positive and negative spending behaviors. Through an engaging activity, worksheets, and discussion,...
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Planning and Money Management: Financial Plan
More planning goes into a budget than a high schooler thinks. Here, they learn about the expected expenses and incomes, along with outside factors such as natural disasters. Learners prepare their own budget and adjust it based on the...
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Who, Me? Biased?: Understanding Implicit Bias
A 10-page interactive explains different facets of implicit bias, demonstrates how implicit bias works, and how people can counteract its effects. The interactive tools permit users to save their information in "My Work" folders, to take...
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Hands on Banking
Encourage middle schoolers to be proficient and knowledgeable in the economic world with a series of personal finance lessons. Focusing on banking, credit, budgets, and investing, the activities guide learners through financial literacy...
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Vocabulary Comic Strips
Who says comic strips aren’t educational? Prove these naysayers wrong by asking your class members to create a comic strip for a selected vocabulary word. Using online technological tools that provide access to an array of options for...