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Economic Awareness Council: Budgeting Basics [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn practical steps to take when building a budget that you can realistically live with.
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Economic Awareness Council: Ben Knows $: Money Smart Activities for Kids [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 8th
It is never to early to begin saving money. Use this printable workbook to help young students learn concepts like the difference between want and need, the difference between saving and spending, what banks do, and how to budget to...
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Rich Kid Smart Kid: Ima's Dream

For Students K - 1st
Animated learning games for students in all grades K-12, teaches them about basic finance, how to save, give and invest.
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Biz Kids: Break the Bank

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive game, you are a worker at a community bank, helping customers get good loans and save for their future. However, the terrible Mr. Boar and his clerks from a payday loan company have infiltrated your bank! Rally the...
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Biz Kids: Bring Home the Bacon

For Students 9th - 10th
Bring Home the Bacon is an exciting interactive way to learn the concept of supply and demand. More demand, more customers, but don't get too carried away because upgrading your investments might be worth the wait!
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The Mint: Budgeting

For Students 1st - 8th
An interactive tool to help you figure out your own budget.
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Economic Awareness Council: Student Budget Builder

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this series of questions and calculators to estimate how to pay for your college education. Use this as an exercise in finance, or with the real amounts you will have available to pay for your...
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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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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Personal Budget

For Students 9th - 10th
Get some tips here on how to set up a personal budget by analyzing expenses, budgeting for the whole year, reducing expenses, tracking expenditures, paying off debts, planning for emergencies, and investing.
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills for Life: Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A series of financial literacy lesson plans broken out by grade range for grades from Pre-K through college, with an additional set of lessons created for students with special needs.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: How Long Is Your Life?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
High school young scholars have rarely been asked to look at their future beyond where they will be going to college or what job they think they will have. This activity asks you to think in a long-term perspective. By using a timeline,...
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Wolters Kluwer

Importance of Good Records

For Students 9th - 10th
This page describes the importance of accounting information in understanding and controlling success or failure, decision-making, budgeting, taxes, and capital acquisition.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Creating a Household Budget

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: An Unexpected Guest

For Students 3rd - 6th
Cyberchase video in which a man must adjust his dinner budget after his cousin unexpectedly decides to join him on his date. [3:26]
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Staying Afloat Financially in the 21st Century

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson will help learners 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. Learners will also...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: You Can Bank on This! (Part 2)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Creating a Budget

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed lesson highlights strategies to use to create a sound financial budget.
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Budget Now Before You Start Looking for a New Job

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to budget so you can more freely search for your dream job.
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Living Within Your Means

For Students 9th - 10th
Tutorial provides handy tips for living within your means.
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Federal Reserve Bank

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: The Pickle Patch Bathtub [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A lesson based on The Pickle Patch Bathtub by Frances Kennedy, where students learn about making choices in how to spend money, and how to set goals and develop a savings plan.
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Wells Fargo Bank: Hands on Banking for Teens

For Students 9th - 10th
Mini learning modules that teach teens how to manage their money wisely and reach their financial goals.
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Save a Million

For Students 9th - 10th
Practical skills in finance and economics teach students about saving, budgeting, and retirement. Students can calculate what it takes to become a millionaire based on their age and income.
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Council for Economic Education

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

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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.
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Wells Fargo: Hands on Banking: Elementary School Course

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learning game for younger students in a lesson in economics in which students learn about banking, saving, budgeting, and money.