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Money Smart Choices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners make choices regarding money management. In this personal finance lesson, students explore budgets, incomes, and expenses as they learn vocabulary regarding personal finance and consider how to create personal budgets.
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Banking for Your Future

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars get a handle on their own personal finances. They discover how banks work, how to plan and stick to a budget, and other helpful tips on managing money. They study the Federal Reserve System, which oversees the nation's banks.
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Alicia Keys, Songs in A Minor

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners watch a video about Alicia Keys and discuss the business side of her career. Groups role-play producers for her new album taking on the responsibility for all aspects, including budgets, contracts, song production, and advertising.
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Invest In Yourself

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students learn about budgeting, saving, dept, financial management, opportunity cost, and self-regulation. In this financial management lesson, students apply their knowledge of finance components and create their own web based plan...
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Managing Your Energy Budget

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars examine their ecological footprint. In this technology based lesson, students calculate patterns of consumption and suggest ways to decrease their resource usage. This lesson includes several multi-media resources, videos,...
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Savings Accounts and Interest

For Teachers 1st
First graders study money, banks, and getting interest on money. In this consumer math lesson plan, 1st graders listen to Stan and Jan Berenstain's, Berenstain Bears' Trouble With Money. They use the concepts in the book to discuss...
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Planning a Budget

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice column addition and lining up decimal points in the context of money.  In this planning a budget lesson, students problem solve after watching a Quicktime video clip in which Harry works out his budget for going on...
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Budgeting - The Basics, Part 1

For Teachers K - 8th
Students investigate personal budgets and discuss how to make monetary decisions. They work in small groups to make money decisions for their classrooms or a playground, and present their decisions to the whole class.
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Comparing Plans

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Good consumer practices such as price comparison can make or break a budget. Youngsters research five different cell phone carriers and the plans they offer. They compile their data and determine which plan offers the best value. They...
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A Trip to Colonial Virginia

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students consider prices while planning a trip to Colonial Virginia. In this budgeting lesson, students construct an itinerary of events for a vacation. Students are responsible for working within the approved budget.
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Family Finances

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine the dynamics of family finances. In groups, they discuss the importance of a budget and create their own given a fictional amount of money. As a class, they listen to a speaker from the bank discussing the importance of...
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Vacation Anyone?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students locate resources on Internet, calculate expenses based on a budget, locate destinations on a map, calculate mileage for a cross country trip, and design and create a presentation that summarizes the journey.
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Take Time to Save Now

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students brainstorm reasons to save money, investigate impact of saving regularly using interactive, on-line calculators, explain how compounding interest affects savings, explore different strategies for saving money, and write personal...
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Building Wealth

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore budgeting.  in this building wealth lesson, students examine ways to invest and save money.  They set financial goals and determine methods to reach the goals.  Students discuss managing debt, credit...
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FILLING EMPTY POCKETS: BORROWING, LOANS AND CREDIT.

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn that maintaining financial security takes a good math understanding. In this lesson, students apply mathematical formulas to make important financial decisions like getting the right loan to buy a house, decide which...
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The Business of Interest

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners learn about finance and money management and use math to solve problems, communicate, and explore real life situations as they deal with banks. In this financial management lesson, students apply their math skills to real life...
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Buying New Stuff

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young spenders take a look at the best ways to save and spend money. This type of financial education is lacking in schools, so implementing this instructional activity would be of great value to your students. Things like bank checking...
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Savers & Borrowers: Financial Markets in the United States

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Investigate the current financial market and have your class explore savings, borrowing, financial markets, mutual funds, and the stock market. This four-part lesson is designed to help students become knowledgeable and informed consumers.
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Budget It!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
In this managing money worksheet, learners record all their families expenses and draw a pie chart showing how much money goes where. Students express the importance of planning how to spend money on the lines provided.
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Budgeting Fixed and Variable Expenses

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students create a workable budget that includes allowances for fixed and variable expenses.
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Financial Fables: Shopping Wisely with Olivia Owl

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Cover two subjects with one instructional activity! First, dive into English language arts; read an eBook, answer comprehension questions, and complete a cause and effect chart about the financial fable, Shopping Wisely with Olivia...
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How Do You Spend Your Money?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine ways to save and spend money. They look at ways that people earn, save, and spend money using chapters from Tom Birdseye's Tarantula Shoes. They add and subtract decimals to fill in a worksheet entitled, "Is It a...
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Will the Leaning Tower Fall?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars research the Tower of Pisa and write a report about its history. They examine the physics of why it leans and whether it might fall. Students plan a trip to Italy to view the Tower. They develop an itinerary and budget for...
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You Are The Farmer

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars investigate the farming business and occupations in agriculture. Basic multi-step math operations are performed in calculating some of the expenses involved in farming.

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