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"Deals on Wheels!" Car Loan Project
Help your class members learn how to use their income wisely with a comprehensive lesson plan on calculating monthly car payments. Using basic math skills and online calculators, your learners will determine the total amount to be...
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Protecting Our City with Levees
Teams use the design process to design, build, and test a model levee to protect the town from a wall of water. A handout provides a price list for the materials learners can use to build their levee within a budget.
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Plan A Meal For A Family Of Four
Fourth graders use critical thinking skills in order to plan a meal for a family of four. They integrate the knowledge of the Food Pyramid in order to make the meal acceptable. Students use a budget and then create a list for shopping...
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Fall Clothing Sale
Students shop for clothing. In this fall clothing sale lesson, students examine circulars for items to purchase within their budget.
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Let's Go Shopping
Seventh graders calculate sales tax and apply discounts regarding a set budget. They create a shopping list, apply tax and discounts, complete a worksheet, and calculate their total cost to equal as close to $1000.00 as they can without...
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On Your Own
Seventh graders research a certain type of job. They write the details of finding the job and describe the job duties. Students also describe a living arrangement and all the costs associated with it. Then they create a physical budget...
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Count Your Credit
Pupils begin the lesson by discussing credit cards, interest rates and budgets. With a partner, they complete a webquest in which they can determine the minimum payment on different amounts and interest rates on their make-believe credit...
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Prom Date
Students use the internet to research the cost of going to the school prom. As a class, they brainstorm about the things needed in order to go to the dance and use advertisements to make a budget. After all of the data is collected,...
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Comparison Shopping
Learners practice developing budgets. In this financial awareness lesson, students read The Monster Money Book and list ways the characters saved money in the story. Learners plan a budget and demonstrate how to look for bargains when...
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Expensive Choices
Eighth graders work in pairs to discover how to prioritize expenses in a budget.
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Party Time
Students design a budget to plan for a class party. In this problem solving lesson, students devise a budget with a limit of fifty dollars for a class party. Students discuss and estimate the amount of money needed for food and decorations.
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Comparison Food Shopping: Buying Groceries for Two People for One Week
Twelfth graders investigate how to develop a simple food budget for two using newpaper ads, the basic four food groups, and calorie counts.
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It's Your Future
Learners learn about productive resources along with their requirements, supply and demand, savings, investments and interest rates. In this supply and demand lesson, students create a career plan and personal budget of their own and...
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Check It Out
Students discuss the many processes involved with personal banking. They create their own budget based on their career choices. They also practice balancing a checkbook.
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Reality Check
Fourth graders practice living on a budget. They must plan for rent, utilities, and food and determine if they can afford the luxuries of a phone, car, gas, movies, clothes, etc., using a newspaper to gather their information.
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Building a Better Home for the Three Little Pigs
Fourth graders draw a set of blueprints and record measurements on them. They add, subtract and multiply to work within their house-building budget.
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Money & Work
Twelfth graders explain basic information concerning financial investments. They identify consumer rights and responsibilities and effective practices for purchasing consumer goods, services, housing and insurance. They list steps in...
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Building Bridges
Students use glue, toothpicks, cardboard, marshmallows and more to build a structure. In this building lesson plan, students budget money to get their materials and make their building in teams.
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Trail Mix
Third graders, given the price of different ingredients, make a trail mix of five different items without exceeding their budget of five dollars. They choose between pretzels, M&M's, twizzlers, popcorn, etc,. Each student practices...
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Is the Price Right?
In this money management, students study inflation. Students complete the given table filling in the 15 spaces for the prices of items for three different given years.
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Closure Lesson - Planning for the Trip
Young scholars prepare for a camping trip. In this camping trip planning lesson, students work in small groups as they discuss their expectations for their upcoming trip. They receive and plan for a specific task such as budgeting,...
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The Hundred Penny Box
Students analyze the advantages of regular saving and how savings grow with compounding. After reading the story "The Hundred Penny Box", students define the terms "interest," "interest rate," and "compounding." Through several...
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The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze
Young scholars explore personal finances. In this money management lesson plan, students read The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze. Young scholars examine the spending habits of Brother Bear and Sister Bear. Students analyze...
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Spending Spree
Learners collect objects to use in a classroom store. In groups, they must place a value on each object and take turns spending their fake dollar in the store. They predict how much they can buy and use addition and subtraction to...
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