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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Income Budgeting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Income Budgeting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Money Doesn't Grow on Trees

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson plan helps students distinguish between earned and unearned income by identifying methods for getting money.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Budgeting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Lessons: College

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ten financial literacy lesson plans allow college young scholars to build on their skills and cover topics such as budgeting, living on your own, managing credit cards, cars and loans, and saving and investing.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: National Budget Simulation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Money Comes and Goes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Practical Money Skills

Visa: Practical Money Skills: Lesson Plans for Grades 7 8

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Fourteen financial literacy lesson plans for middle school learners cover topics such as budgeting, living on your own, the influence of advertising, and saving and investing.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 4: How to Use Your Money

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will identify why having a budget and keeping records of their spending and saving habits helps them make better financial choices.
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Lessons: Special Needs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ten customizable financial lessons designed for special needs students.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: The Money Market

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to the money market.Young scholars will learn about budget deficits, and specifically, the national debt. This resource is designed as a review for the...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Using a Person's Budget to Understand the Balance of Payments

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Big Banks, Piggy Banks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Use this informative economics lesson plan. Find out how to save your money. "You will read about safe places for keeping money; you also will learn about places where money can earn money."
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: A Penny Saved Is a Penny at 4.7% Earned

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This is a lesson from EconEdLink where students learn about saving money. Includes activities and materials.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Jesse 'The Body' Wants to Give Money Away!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
During his campaign for governor of the State of Minnesota, former professional wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura, promised to return to the taxpayers of Minnesota the budget surpluses that had been accumulating in the state. Upon...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Pigs and Money

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
After reading the book "Pigs Will Be Pigs" by Amy Axelrod, students will practice how to add money. They will practice how to spend money without spending more than they have in their budget.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Money Matters: Where Does It Go?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this project young scholars will utilize math and reasoning skills to develop a personal budget. By weighing their expenses as "wants" vs. "needs," students will develop management skills and learn the importance of getting the most...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Less Than Zero [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson accompanies a story by Stuart J. Murphy called Less Than Zero and teaches young scholars about how to manage their money by saving it and setting goals for themselves.
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills at Home: Allowance and Savings

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Ideas to teach children the importance of saving and the value of an allowance using this activity. Suggestions for conveying these ideas include related worksheets to help children better grasp these concepts.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Money Management

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This month-long experience educates learners in differentiating between needs and wants, how to budget resources, and to gain an understanding of the workings of a capitalist society.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Can You Survive in the Real World?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Living in the real world is expensive and sometimes hard for a new college graduate to adjust to. This instructional activity will allow students to see the importance and need of budgeting money. Students will have to make choices and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: That's All I Have to Spend for a Whole Month?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
As a part of the study of personal economics, students will research a career, costs of rent, insurance, food, transportation, etc. and prepare a monthly budget based on their research.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Bouncing Ball Budgets

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through an interactive game, learners share spending decisions they've made in the past and start to think about their spending habits in new ways.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Learn to Build a Rocket in 5 Days or Your Money Back

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students discover the entire process that goes into designing a rocket for any customer. In prior lessons, students learned how rockets work, but now they learn what real-world decisions engineers have to make when...

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