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Met Life: Monthly Expense Record [Pdf]
This site provides a form for keeping track of monthly expenses, with space for housing, food, and transportation expenditures.
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Economic Awareness Council: Budgeting Basics [Pdf]
Learn practical steps to take when building a budget that you can realistically live with.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Budgeting
Illustrates the difference between sources of income and fixed versus variable expenses through a simple budget plan. Introduces students to the basics of budgeting.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Creating a Household Budget
In this Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum PowerPoint module, young scholars create a household budget by tracking their expenditures over a month-long period. Students use Microsoft Excel to create a spreadsheet to track their own...
Free Management Library
Free Management Library: Managing Operating Budgets
This resource provides a brief explanation of operating budgets and provides links about annual budgets.
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I Grad: Managing a College Student Budget
Help for high school students anticipating college expenses, so they can make the most of the money they have to spend when they get there.
Curated OER
Federal Budget Expenses
Easy to use budget simulator that allows you to learn how much money is incorporated in the Federal Budget.
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Nathan Newman: National Budget Simulation
This online simulation should give you a better feel of the trade-offs which policy makers need to make in creating federal budgets and dealing with deficits. The simulation comes in a short and long version and allows learners to see...
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I Grad: Wants vs. Needs: Secrets to Successfully Prioritize Expenses
Designed for late high school or for college students, this teaches students how to discriminate between wants and needs, and to budget successfully.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Budgets: Don't Go Broke
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using this flipchart, students will learn budgeting, reading a pay stub, understanding payroll deductions, PYF, and how to utilize a bank or credit union.
Practical Money Skills
Visa: Practical Money Skills for Life: Financial Football
Football-themed game tests your consumer-finance aptitude regarding interest, banking, credit, budgeting, saving, and spending.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Estimating Costs, Estimating Profits
Franklin works with Laverne to create a budget for a job painting a room, in this video segment from TV 411.
Thinkport Education
Maryland Public Television: Sense and Dollars
Engaging, fun tutorials and interactive games related to earning, spending, saving, and budgeting money.
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Treasury Direct: Money Math: Lessons for Life: Wallpaper Woes [Pdf]
Students use a real-world example to work on measurement skills and learn economic concepts such as budget constrains, trade-offs and expenses. [PDF]
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Money Matters: Where Does It Go?
In this project students will utilize math and reasoning skills to develop a personal budget. By weighing their expenses as "wants" vs. "needs," students will develop management skills and learn the importance of getting the most out of...
PBS
Pbs: Personal Spending Spreadsheet
This activity helps students create their own personal spending plan.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Easy Tips to Save Money Every Day
Saving starts with just a few simple changes to your spending. Learn how to save money on your everyday expenses, like groceries, transportation and entertainment. [3:50]
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Pricing a Job
Learn how to calculate a fair price for a service. You'll be exploring calculations of direct cost, overhead, profit and more. The answers you give to the lesson questions will receive immediate feedback.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Build a Toy Workshop
Working as if they are engineers who work for (the hypothetical) Build-a-Toy Workshop company, students apply their imaginations and the engineering design process to design and build prototype toys with moving parts. They set up...
US Senate
Trends in Congressional Appropriations [Pdf]
Provides numerous graphs accompanied by explanations of the government spending since the 1960s. Focuses on the restraint of the 1990s but shows the steady growth in the last forty years. Link to .pdf file. Requires Adobe Reader.
PBS
Pbs Kids: It's My Life Managing Money: Spending and Saving
It is important for kids to learn how to manage their own money. This section of It's My Life-Managing Money focuses on spending and saving. Additional topics including money goals, expenses, savings, budgeting, and money tips are listed...
Curated OER
Social Studies for Kids: Needs vs. Wants: Basic Economics
This website examines the difference between needs and wants, offers the chance for the student to make a budget, and discusses personal finance with an emphasis on income and expenses.
Curated OER
Social Studies for Kids: Needs vs. Wants: Basic Economics
This website examines the difference between needs and wants, offers the chance for the student to make a budget, and discusses personal finance with an emphasis on income and expenses.