Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Income Budgeting
This site contains a unit on budgeting money for use by middle school teachers. Includes enrichment problems, a bibliography, and many example problems and situations.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Budgeting
It is very important that you know about budgeting and have discussed it before you get married. Learn why a budget must be flexible in order to work and is important for couples managing money.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: National Budget Simulation
How would you deal with the national budget if you were the President of the United States? What if there was a national emergency? This site includes a budget simulation on the computer that allows students to make real budget...
Bill of Rights Institute
Bill of Rights Institute: The Federal Budget and the Constitution
What responsibilities belong to the U.S. President and the Congressional houses when it comes to establishing the federal budget? Take a look at these resources and incorporate this lesson into classroom learning.
Other
The Mint: Ideas for Teachers: Budgeting Your Financial Resources
This lesson plan teaches students about different types of income and expenses and allows them to develop a personal budget.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Becoming a Wise Consumer: Creating a Budget
In this lesson plan, students will learn how to become a wise consumer by creating a budget based on needs and wants. Students will create a weekly budget with a variable income using the interactive app MWB: My Weekly Budget available...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Creating a Household Budget
In this Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum PowerPoint module, young scholars create a household budget by tracking their expenditures over a month-long period. Students use Microsoft Excel to create a spreadsheet to track their own...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Income Budgeting
This site contains a unit on budgeting money for use by middle school teachers. Includes enrichment problems, a bibliography, and many example problems and situations.
Broward Education Foundation
Broward Education Foundation: Budget Technology [Pdf]
Students will be divided into pairs and given a $1000 budget (imaginary) to create a project focusing on their area of interest within the school curriculum that will include a culminating audio/visual presentation. They must write an...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Using a Person's Budget to Understand the Balance of Payments
Just like a personal budget, the balance of payments uses the sources of funds and uses of funds to track the movement of money. In this article, we use a young wizard's budget to make the balance of payments more relatable. This...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Budgets
What is a budget? How do we use it and why is it important? Students work on these questions in the context of the College Project.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 2: Plans and Goals
Planning is essential to financial success. In this lesson, learners will define the word "budget" and identify the three key components associated with creating a budget, evaluate wants versus needs, and demonstrate an understanding of...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Budgeting & Checking Activity Financial Literacy
This is a simulation for students to integrate several concepts on saving and banking into one project.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Money Comes and Goes
Students read two online stories that introduce them to the elements of a budget and show that a successful budget balances money coming in (income) with money going out (expenses and savings). Follow-up activities point out the value of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Much Will This Lifestyle Cost?
Students will create a detailed monthly budget using a spreadsheet. The budget will depend on an individual's earning potential as determined by career choice and education. This is a project-based, Commerce and Information Technology...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "All in the Family"
A cooperative unit where students work together and use a variety of math skills to establish budgets and compare and compute the best buys. Students will continue practicing their writing skills by writing thank you notes to local...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Staying Afloat Financially in the 21st Century
This lesson will help students identify how to make good decisions which will help them financially in the future. Students will identify how to take their own wants and work them into a form of a personal budget. Students will also...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: You Can Bank on This! (Part 2)
As in the first ', You Can BANK on This, you will learn that banking should not be confusing - it should be INTERESTING! Lesson Two will continue learning with Zing, but this time we will learn all about budgeting - and budgeting means...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: That's All I Have to Spend for a Whole Month?
As a part of the study of personal economics, learners will research a career, costs of rent, insurance, food, transportation, etc. and prepare a monthly budget based on their research.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: A Penny Saved Is a Penny at 4.7% Earned
There are lots of ways to receive income, and lots of ways to spend it. In this EconomicsMinute you will develop two budgets to help you decide how to allocate your income. Assuming you do not love making dollar bill rings.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Bouncing Ball Budgets
Through an interactive game, students share spending decisions they've made in the past and start to think about their spending habits in new ways.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Budgeting for the Oregon Trail
As a part of the online collaborative unit, Westward Ho!, students will work in cooperative groups of 4-5 students to decide what items they need to take on the Oregon Trail, determine the cost of the items, and complete a ledger to...
Climate Literacy
Clean: The Earth's Heat Budget
Students investigate the effects of distance and angle on the input of solar radiation at the Earth's surface, the role played by albedo, and the heat capacity of land and water.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Role of Gov. National Debt v. Deficit
Using the website federalbudget.com, students research information about the federal budget. Includes questions and links to other budget websites.
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