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Federal Trade Commission

Federal Trade Commission: Consumer: Making a Budget

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about budgeting including saving money and how to make and use a budget. Includes examples.
Handout
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Personal Budget

For Students 9th - 10th
Get some tips here on how to set up a personal budget by analyzing expenses, budgeting for the whole year, reducing expenses, tracking expenditures, paying off debts, planning for emergencies, and investing.
Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Plan Your Spending

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site presents the budgeting process through a series of steps. This first page describes the first step, creating a spending plan of estimated expenses. This page also has a link to a downloadable spending plan that requires Acrobat...
Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: President Obama's Allowance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will identify different expenses in the US budget and will decide on the order of importance for different expenses.