Council for Economic Education
Understanding a Balance Sheet
Read any financial website or book, and it is bound to discuss the words asset and liability. But what do these words actually mean to the class? The resource effectively explains by using multiple formats and techniques, including...
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Preparing a Balance Sheet
Young scholars prepare a balance sheet. In this balance sheet lesson, students learn the parts of a balance sheet and how they are represented. Young scholars use a formula to calculate equity.
Council for Economic Education
Balance of Payments (BOP)
Have you ever checked your clothes to see how many nations created them? Pupils take a deeper look at international trade and the balance of payments nations have with one another. They use calculations, simulations, and primary sources...
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Finance and Accounts 1: Basic Principles
Students distinguish between the terms 'cost' and 'revenue' and examine the concept of 'profit'. They analyze the difference between a profit and loss account and a balance sheet.
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Accounting
Students explore the principals of accounting and operating a business. In this business or financial math class, students investigate business documents, day books, bookkeeping, balance sheets, etc. in this self-paced comprehensive unit.
NASA
Rocket Wind Tunnel
Using a teacher-built wind tunnel constructed from a paper concrete tube form, a fan, and a balance, individuals determine the amount of drag their rocket design will experience in flight. Pupils make modifications to increase the...
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Accounting Monopoly
Young scholars use Monopoly to review the accounting cycle. They create their own transactions while playing Monopoly. Students produce the financial statements that will match the transactions of the game.
Odyssey of the Mind
Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: Balance the Books
There is a difference between profit and revenue, and it's up to your class to find out why. They each research the public accounting documents for their favorite company or brand. Then they use their findings to discuss the differences...
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Balance Adding Integers
In this positive and negative numbers learning exercise, students complete a balance sheet by writing positive and negative numbers in the space to match transactions. They find the balance of the account. This one-page learning...
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Depreciation (Double Declining)
Have you ever been told that your new car begins to lose its value as soon as you drive it off the lot? Aspiring accountants take on the concepts of depreciation and book value through an easy-to-deliver career and technology...
iCivics
County Government: High School
Balancing a budget—the bane of many people's existence! Yet, its' something that must be done, especially in government systems. The resource, fourth in a seven-part series exploring local government, focuses on various exercises that...
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Accounting -- Financial Statements for a Partnership
Students engage in an introduction of financial statements for a partnership set up as a merchandising business. They review the need of financial statements and how to effectively read/use financial statements.
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Accounting -- Annual Report Website
Learners comprehend the accounting cycle. They create a website for a company used in playing the Accounting Monopoly game. If possible, the students publish the finished annual report on the Internet.
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Accounting: Work Sheet for a Service Business
Students explore how to complete work sheets for a service business. They enter transactions that affect the owner's equity of a proprietorship into a worksheet that reviews the business activities for the past fiscal year. They...
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Balancing a Budget
Students calculate living expenses for a non-traditional career choice. They examine interest, balancing a checkbook, and financing cars and homes.
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Checks and Balances
Students examine how bank checks work and follow the "journey" of a written check. They discuss how transactional accounts work, identify and discuss the various parts of a check, and participate in a simulated business transaction...
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Economics Budget Project
Your class members will have the opportunity to practice the valuable skill of constructing a personal budget using real-world resources, such as a car advertisement and grocery list. They will take into consideration monthly and yearly...
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Put Your Truss in Building Bridges
Young scholars apply abstract concepts, such as stress, fulcrums, the law of gravity, and the strength of different geometric shapes. Groups of student contractors operate simulated architectural firms to create strong, economical bridges.
Science Geek
Atomic Structure
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) was formed in 1919 and was crucial for allowing scientists to discuss findings during the Cold War. A presentation offers an introduction to atomic structure including the...
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Income and Expenses
Students discuss income and expenses. In this lesson on money, students define income and expenses, after whith they keep track of their income and expense transactions on a basic ledger.
Finance in the Classroom
Unit on Checking
As part of a four-lesson unit on personal finances, class members practice using a checkbook. Exercises include writing checks, filling out deposit and withdrawal slips, and keeping a check register.
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Balancing a Budget
Students investigate money management. In this secondary mathematics instructional activity, students participate in a cost-of-living budget simulation in which they calculate monthly and yearly projected costs. Students investigate...
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Take Charge of Your Financial Future
Students discuss Biz Kids understanding that it is a program to help people become financially educated. In this mathematics lesson, students view an episode and discuss what they would do if given various situations like going out or...
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Married Math
Students participate in a two-week real-life math unit. In pairs, they calculate salaries, taxes, and a budget, plan a vacation, buy insurance, make a will, and design a room. They conduct Internet research to plan the vacation, and...