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The Berenstain Bears Trouble with Money
Learners will explore good and services, income and saving listening to the story The B. Bears Trouble With Money. In this early economic lesson, students discuss what it means to earn money doing services and save money to...
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Intro to Building Bridges
Students participate in groups to complete the best bridge. For this bridge building lesson, students are assigned a role in building the bridge. Students will have to keep to their budgets. After the bridges are built,...
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Travel Plan Project
You can use a travel plan project in the classroom to learn about budgets, maps, time management, and more.
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Value of Education: Education and Earning Power
Students explore the concept a higher education yields higher earnings. Throughout the class, students visit six workstations and examine occupations, education, salaries, spending, banking, and taxes. As students rotate through the...
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Scarcity, Choice and Decisions
Students study the basic economic trilogy (scarcity, choice, and costs). In this money management instructional activity, students use a scenario of a High School Prom to calculate how scarcity, choice and cost apply by completing...
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Why Do People Save?
Students identify ways in which they can save and spend their money. They discover why people save money and calculate simple interest. They discuss the costs and benefits of saving.
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Managing Your Money
Students discuss different money management options in a variety of situations. They identify moments to share, spend and save money.
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After 6 Months of Financial Dieting
Explore the concept of financial planning by reading an article about 5 families and their plans to save money. Young scholars discuss the progress each family made financially after three months, and then make their own financial plan.
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You Are The Farmer
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.
Practical Money Skills
Shopping Wisely
Work on making good shopping choices with a fun economics project. Kids analyze the differences between brand names and generic products, bigger and smaller units for purchase, and different places they can shop for different items.
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Values Auction
Young scholars assess what they value and participate in a class auction. In this financial values lesson, students complete a budget activity and use play money to participate in an auction. Young scholars complete a related worksheet...
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European Vacation
Ninth graders work in groups of two or three to plan a trip through Europe. They present a storyboard for approval, outlining their graphics and display pages. They present their trip to the class using PowerPoint. This is displayed...
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The Cost of Life
Students research the salary for a career of interest. They consider what kind of lifestyle that career would provide and graph their information for comparison.
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Savings and Consumption
Students engage in a study that is focused upon the practice of how financial savings is accumulated and spent. This is based upon the rate of consumption with spending. The lesson plan helps students to create a working budget according...
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Businesses That Provide The Needs of Our Community
Students investigate the economy by creating a mock store in the classroom. In this business lesson plan, students research traditional department stores and brainstorm with their classmates as to what they could sell in their...
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Dear Presidential Diary
Students discover how a president spends the day. In this presidential history lesson, students research primary sources in order to write their own diaries for presidents that include suggestions of laws, managing personnel, budgeting,...
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A Family Finance Experience
Students create a budget and make predictions about money. In this algebra lesson,students balance spending and income by monitoring their finance.
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The Role of Government
Students are introduced to the economic roles of the federal government. Using the internet, they read information related to government spending and the actual dollar amounts attached to budget items. In groups, they develop their own...
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Expensive Choices
Eighth graders work in pairs to discover how to prioritize expenses in a budget.
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Why Don't I Ever Have Any Money?
Students keep a journal on their current spending habits. In groups, they develop guidelines for a family to follow given a specific amount of take home pay. They role play various scenerios to see what can be done with a given amount...
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Thinking About Money
Young scholars explore the concept of a personal budget. In this philanthropy lesson, students use a Venn diagram to compare 2 stories in which the main characters spend money in different ways.
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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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Let's Go Shopping with $500
Third graders use a worksheet to budget a five-hundred dollar shopping spree. They select goods to purchase, figure totals and then calculate discounts and sales tax. They compare results to determine who purchased the most for his or...
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Grocery Shopping
Students apply budgeting and shopping strategies. They study consumer shopping skills and guidelines to be a better shopper by comparing stores, comparing prices and unit pricing, brands, using coupons and not being fooled with...