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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Setting a Smart Savings Goal

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students discuss short-term and long-term goals and what makes a goal SMART. They then create their own short-term savings goal and make an action plan to meet that goal.
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Other

Smart About Money: 40 Money Management Tips Every College Student Should Know

For Students 9th - 10th
[PDF] This downloadable brochure will help high school students prepare for the financial decisions they will need to make once high school is over.
Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Bringing the Market to the Farm

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This printable lesson discusses producers and consumers from an agricultural perspective. It focuses on choices that the consumer has with regard to purchasing agricultural goods (e.g. fruits and vegetables). As an example, it uses...
Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Believe It or Not?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This lesson reveals to students how advertisers use words and images to make goods and services look their best. To protect consumers and make sure that competition among sellers is fair in the marketplace, the federal government...