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Spending Plans

For Teachers K
Students explore the concept of dividing their money into categories, namely "save," "spend," and "share." They engage in activities that help them explain that money is limited in quantity and must be divided for different purposes.
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Value Of Money

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students read the book "Alexander, Who Used To Be Rich Last Sunday," along with their teacher and take away coins as they follow along with the story. In this money and counting instructional activity, students get meaningful practice in...
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Money, Money, Honey Bunny!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students determine the differences between goods and services, and saving and spending. For this economics lesson, students listen to a rhyming story about a bunny with money. They play a matching game with the associated cards and work...
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Money Matters

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners practice spending money by completing math word sentences.  For this economics lesson, students utilize problem solving strategies to complete word problems written on the board involving making purchases with money.  Learners...
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Spending Spree

For Teachers K - 4th
Students collect objects to use in a classroom store. In groups, they must place a value on each object and take turns spending their fake dollar in the store. They predict how much they can buy and use addition and subtraction to...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Keep the Currency

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Each day, people throw currency away in different ways because of a lack of financial knowledge. Introduce your learners to the importance of financial literacy and assess their understanding of banking and personal finance.
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Living Below Our Means

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Common-sense strategies that can help teachers achieve financial security through frugality.
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Spending

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a lesson that illustrates the concept of spending and how it effects the economy. Technology is integrated in this study with the use of a computer simulation of a pinball game that shows how fast money can be spent.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Field Day Scarcity

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Introduce young mathematicians to concepts of financial literacy with this open-ended word problem. With seven dollars to spend during field day and given a list of available items and their prices, children must determine how they want...
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Visa

Money Matters: Why It Pays to Be Financially Responsible

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What does it mean to be financially responsible? Pupils begin to develop the building blocks of strong financial decision making by reviewing how their past purchases are examples of cost comparing, cost-benefit analysis, and budgeting.
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Earning Money

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Where does money come from? Is it limitless and always available? Introduce your youngsters to the concept of earning through jobs and/or chores with a matching activity and provided worksheets.
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Who Wants to Spend $20,000?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Who wouldn't want $20,000 to spend? But, the question becomes, what do you spend it on? Learners discuss loans, interest, and making adult-like financial decisions. They role-play a scenario that depicts the choices of a girl who took...
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US Department of Commerce

Featured Activity: Exploring Questions for the 2020 Census

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Just what is the census for? Using data and census questions, class members explore how officials gather information. Then, they consider how the government uses the answers to determine how it spends its money with a collaborative...
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Why Don't I Ever Have Any Money?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers keep a journal on their current spending habits. In groups, they develop guidelines for a family to follow given a specific amount of take home pay. They role play various scenerios to see what can be done with a given...
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Money Story Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this math literacy worksheet, students focus on the example of a word problem that uses money and then create their own at the bottom of the page.
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Making Good Money Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify the needs of their community. In this communities lesson, students use a decision-making model worksheet to determine what community service project they should donate to. Students count the money they have to donate...
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Adding and Subtracting Money

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate U.S. currency by pretending to buy food.  In this money lesson plan, students discover the vocabulary and value for each U.S. coin, then add the amounts in dollars and cents of food items they wish to purchase....
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What to Do with a $20 Bill Besides Spend It

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students explore the concept of anti-counterfeiting measure.  In this economics lesson, students use science equipment to discover anti-counterfeiting designs.  Students then explore other denominations of bills. 
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Money and Business (Art)

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate world currency by creating their own coin art.  In this government lesson, 3rd graders examine the characteristics of different coins and create their own design for a new one.  Students discuss and present...
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Shopping!!!

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore money management. In this financial awareness lesson, students are given an amount of money and a sheet of objects to choose from to buy. Students choose only five objects they can afford to "buy."
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Problem Solving

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use hockey sticks to pick up bean bags and put them into hoops which they get money for in the end. In this movement and math lesson plan, students get fake money and add up how much they earned in the end based on how many...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Less Than Zero

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Perry the penguin wants to buy a new scooter, but he doesn't have any funds! Walk your kids through the short book Less Than Zero, and have them track his borrowing, spending, and saving on a line graph while you read. Pupils will learn...
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Wells Fargo

Hands on Banking

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
What happens to your money between the time you make a bank deposit and the time you decide to spend it? Take middle schoolers and teens through the process of opening checking and savings accounts, creating a personal budget,...
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Federal Reserve Bank

The Pickle Patch Bathtub

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
What do your pupils want to save up their money for? Based around the book The Pickle Patch Bathtub, this lesson covers opportunity cost, saving, and spending. Learners participate in a discussion and practice making their own savings...