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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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Finance Authority of Maine: Claim Your Future

For Students 9th - 10th
This game can be played individually or as a class. Students make adult decisions about spending money, based on income from a particular career. This could help students decide on a career, as well as learning how to budget their...
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Finance Authority of Maine: Manage: Making Your Money Work

For Students 9th - 10th
PDF with ten sections that help students set financial goals, track expenses, and create plans to manage their expenses to help their future selves.
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Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Budgeting Data Crunch

For Students 9th - 10th
Data Crunches feature one chart or graph followed by five scaffolded questions to guide students through analyzing the data and drawing conclusions. These sets of data help students understand financial concepts such as budgeting.
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Save And Invest

Finra Investor Education Foundation: The True Cost of Owning a Car

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan highlights the true cost of purchasing and maintaining a car and emphasizes smart budgeting.
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Save And Invest

Finra Investor Education Foundation: The Emergency Fund

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan teaches students the importance of being financially prepared for unexpected expenses.
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Save And Invest

Finra Investor Education Foundation: Debt Elimination

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan offers different strategies for eliminating debt and strengthening one's financial position and cash flow.
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Federal Trade Commission

Federal Trade Commission: Consumer: Making a Budget

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about budgeting including saving money and how to make and use a budget. Includes examples.
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Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Budgeting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lessons and activities to teach students about creating and living within a budget.
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Financial Football

For Students 9th - 10th
Make personal finance fun with Visa's fast-paced interactive NFL-themed video game that engages students while teaching them personal finance skills.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 2: Plans and Goals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Planning is essential to financial success. In this lesson plan, students will define the word "budget" and identify the three key components associated with creating a budget, evaluate wants versus needs, and demonstrate an...
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Financial Calculators

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore your own financial information in greater detail by using these powerful tools for forecasting and assessing your financial choices. During the process, you might discover expenses you can eliminate or more effective ways to...
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Lessons: College

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ten financial literacy lesson plans allow college students 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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Scholastic

Scholastic: Plan, Save, Succeed! Achieving Financial Literacy Goals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers will understand how a budget is created and how it can support good financial decision-making. They will begin to consider the role that saving plays in financial planning.
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University of Missouri

University of Missouri St. Louis:wise Pockets: Kermit the Hermit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is an elementary level lesson that deals with spending, saving, income, and interest. Requires the book Kermit the Hermit by Bill Peet. Includes detailed lesson plan along with procedures and activities.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Finding the Right Combination of Clothes

For Students 6th - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Harry has a fixed budget for clothing, so he uses algebra to figure out what combination of jackets and pants he can buy with $100. [3:24]
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University of Missouri

Wise Pockets World: Wise Pockets Clubhouse for Students

For Students 1st - 4th
As students read the stories in the library, they learn about earning money, spending and saving money, and a bit about borrowing and lending money as well. Each story is followed by a short quiz and a printable activity.
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Other

My Money

For Students 9th - 10th
This Federal Government website provides consumers with many resources and much information to help them to manage their money better. Topics include budgeting, taxes, saving, investing, retirement planning, credit, and checking...
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Other

The Mint: Ideas for Teachers: Budgeting Your Financial Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan teaches students about different types of income and expenses and allows them to develop a personal budget.
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Bankrate

Bankrate: How to Budget

For Students 9th - 10th
This site shows you how to set up and manage your own budget. Includes several bullets points and information for understanding. (2001)
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Bankrate

Bankrate: Dr. Don's 10 Tips for Better Money Management

For Students 9th - 10th
Dr. Don Taylor provides tips for better money management in this article from Bankrate. Detailed and thorough analysis is given.
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Met Life: Monthly Expense Record [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a form for keeping track of monthly expenses, with space for housing, food, and transportation expenditures.
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Economic Awareness Council: Getting Going: Your Money Goals [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial focuses on both the mind-set necessary for productive goal setting and the practicalities of how to determine realistic goals and plan the steps to meet them.
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Economic Awareness Council: Your First Paycheck [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what all that information on your paycheck means, and learn to make smart decisions about how to use the money you earn.