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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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C-SPAN

C Span Classroom: Teaching About Balanced Budget Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning resource using C-SPAN videos and related articles from which students learn what a balanced budget amendment is and whether it's a good idea for the country or not. Students join the debate by participating in a deliberation in...
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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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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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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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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Heat Budget of Planet Earth Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the heat budget of planet Earth in this study guide.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Budgets

For Teachers 6th Standards
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.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Uncle Reuben and His Budget of Stories

For Students 1st - 3rd
A scanned copy of the 1851 publication Uncle Reuben and His Budget of Stories by Francis Channing Woodworth, a fiction book for children.
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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: The Earth's Energy Budget

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining the earth's engergy budget. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along...
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Bankrate

Bankrate: How Do I Budget My Big Salary?

For Students 9th - 10th
The site provides an accountant's view about the percentages of income we should budget for our monthly living expenses. A good resource for students interested in making and managing money. (Aug. 22, 2000)
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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, 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...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "All in the Family"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
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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 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...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Bouncing Ball Budgets

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Other

Water on the Web: Studying Heat Budgets of Lakes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Interesting activity that discusses many aspects of the energy in a lake, including the evaporation of the water into gas.
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Practical Money Skills

Visa: Practical Money Skills for Life

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Visa provides a resource that teachers, parents, and students will all enjoy using. There are lesson plans here for all ages, as well as information about spending decisions, budgeting, and money management. Print your own play money,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Albedo Decrease Linked to Vanishing Arctic Sea Ice

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine this visualization by NASA to understand how the warming of the Arctic region has caused the sea ice extent to decline by 40%, thereby throwing our earth's energy budget off balance. Extensive resources included are teaching...
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Consumer Wise

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit teaches students how to become a wise consumer. Some of the topics discussed are income, budgeting, credit, saving, and loans. Five different activities include objectives, worksheets, evaluations, and resources.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Wild Water Adventure

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn how a system of equations can be used to find the best use of information to make decisions in real-world situations.Students will work in groups of 3s or 4s to develop a system for the best buy on tickets at a water...
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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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Other

Montana State University: Using Check Registers to Track Your Expenses

For Students 9th - 10th
[PDF] Explains a system of labeling a check register and recording expenses in a way to help students keep to a budget.
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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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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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