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The Mint: Be Your Own Boss

For Students 9th - 10th
Website helps students learn about money management and making sound financial decisions. Students can take this quiz designed for teens to find out if they have what it takes to own their own business.
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University of Missouri

University of Missouri: Wise Pockets: Berenstain Bears' Trouble With Money

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Using a Berenstain Bears' book, students are introduced to concepts such as spending, goods, services, income, saving, and interest. Lesson is detailed and has good activities. Includes questions about the story that teach students about...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Becoming a Wise Consumer: Comparison Shopping

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this introductory lesson to money management for teens, students will use everyday math skills to comparison shop a variety of products. Students will learn several ways to save money, including using store discounts, coupons, and...
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Money Management International: The Berenstain Bears' Trouble With Money

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
A lesson plan featuring the Berenstain Bears that introduces the concepts of spending, goods, services, income, saving, and interest.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Lesson Plan: Financial Institution Comparison

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The lesson plan investigates financial literacy. Teachers can use the lesson plan to help learners learn how to choose a financial institution. Objectives, instructional procedures, and additional resources are included.
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Federal Reserve Education: Core Concept Cards

For Students 9th - 10th
Using Core Concept Cards is a quick way to reinforce economic and financial literacy concepts. This site offers quite a few ways to use these Core Concept Cards, including games to play with students, and interactive flash cards that...
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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 students cover topics such as budgeting, living on your own, the influence of advertising, and saving and investing.
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Economic Awareness Council: Credit Control [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about responsible use of credit and credit cards, your credit score and why it is important, and how to get out of debt if you've already overextended your finances.
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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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Practical Money Skills: Peter Pig's Money Counter

For Students K - 1st
Interactive learning game in which students gain practical skills in financial literacy by learning how to identify and count coins. Students choose one of three levels of difficulty.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 4.oa Carnival Tickets

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
The purpose of this task is for students to solve multi-step problems in a context involving a concept that supports financial literacy, namely inflation. Aligns with 4.OA.A.3.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A sse.b.4: A Lifetime of Savings

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of this instructional task is to give learners an opportunity to construct and find the value of a geometric series in a financial literacy context. Aligns with A-SSE.B.4.
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American Institute of Certified Public Accountants: Feed the Pig

For Students 9th - 10th
What kind of saver are you? Save the Pig has great tips and tools to help you identify your spending habits and then learn to change them in order to improve your financial health.
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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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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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Wells Fargo Bank: Financial Information for Young Adults

For Students 9th - 10th
Mini learning modules that teach young adults how to manage money wisely and reach their financial goals.
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Wells Fargo Bank: Hands on Banking for Kids

For Students K - 1st
Mini learning modules that teach kids about money and its worth. Students also learn how to set financial goals during these interactive activities.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Saving Money 2

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
The purpose of this task is for students to relate addition and subtraction problems to money and to situations and goals related to saving money. A problem is given that will contain multiple solutions, this allows students to think...
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Wolters Kluwer

Business Owner's Toolkit: Personal Financial Statement Worksheet

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information that would help when applying for a small business loan, because lenders are also interested in a person's personal finances. It also contains a form outlining the information bankers will require prior...
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PBS

Nh Pbs: Outlook on Money: Basics of Budgeting

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the basics of budgeting and get tips for personal money management. View a video segment that shows how one woman is achieving her goals of financial independence by learning to set priorities. Includes a classroom guide and...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: How Rising or Falling Interest Rates Might Affect You

For Students 9th - 10th
Content brought to you by our partner, Better Money Habits. Explains interest rates as related to personal finance by actions of the Federal Reserve Bank.
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Stewart Resources Centre: Consumer Wise [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A tenth-grade math unit, developed in 1993 by a Saskatchewan teacher, on budgeting.
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Finance Authority of Maine: Cash and Max: Look at All the Things Max Will Learn

For Students K - 1st
A PDF coloring book for early elementary students provides basic lessons about earning and saving money.
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A&E Television

History.com: The Patriot Financier Who Bankrolled the Revolutionary War

For Students 9th - 10th
A brash, self-made millionaire helped fund the fight for independence, but after the war, he ended up in debtor's prison. Without Robert Morris, the American Revolution may have been crushed under a mountain of debt and disarray. The...

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