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Financial Goals

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Do you have financial goals? How will you make them happen? Help your pupils answer these questions through this interactive project. They create goals and a plan for reaching them as one of many high school algebra projects.
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Cash Flow and Balance Sheets

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What is your car worth? How much do you owe? Individuals create their personal cash flow and balance sheets. They learn the difference between an asset and liability using their personal information to complete the activity.
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Income Taxes

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Most adults dread April 15 — tax day! Tax preparation can be intimidating even for adults. Build confidence by leading individuals through the process and then give them a scenario to practice. The exercise uses tax vocabulary to give...
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Saving and Investing for the Long Term

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Create savvy investors with an activity that uses an online resource to allow individuals to invest in the stock market. The teacher is able to track activity and progress. Stock tips and strategies are shared.
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Curated OER

Lemonade For Sale

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
2-3rd graders listen to the story, Lemonade for Sale, by Stuart J. Murphy. In the story, children produce and sell lemonade to raise money for their clubhouse, create a product, classify the resources used in production as natural...
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The Teenage Consumer

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners think critically regarding teenage spending. In this data collection lesson, students discuss teenage consumers and their spending habits. Learners note their own spending habits for comparison purposes.
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Kumara Math

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore nutrition by completing math problems in class. In this food conversions lesson, students identify what the kumara plant is and how it can contribute to human health by regularly consuming an appropriate amount. Students...
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Gift Wrapping

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use the example of a gift wrapping service found in the mall in order to create a problem situation that can be solved mathematically. They convert the word problem into algebraic expressions to be solved.
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More Change

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this making change worksheet, students complete a chart in which change is calculated after purchasing two toys with one dollar.
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Transportation Math

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students practice their problem solving skills. In this addition and subtraction lesson, students solve story problems regarding the delivery of consumer goods.
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Price

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete worksheets on producers and consumers and the total price of a group of items. In this price lesson plan, 1st graders read the book A Dollar for Penny in order to understand price, producers, and consumers, and...
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The Great Cookie Company

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders implement real life application of money, problem solving, economics, and consumer awareness.  In this three week economics unit, 4th graders operate a business, write checks, balance accounts, and market their product. 
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What Did It Cost 100 Years Ago?

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students compare prices of good across the century in order to introduce the topic of inflation. They undertand the concepts of inflation and Consumer Price Index (CPI), use online calculators to figure the approximate cost of goods...
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Prairie Food Chains & Webs

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students complete a food chain. In this ecosystem lesson, students learn about producers, consumers and decomposers. Students identify herbivores, carnivores and omnivores and complete two worksheets.
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The Science and Technology of Food

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the guidelines the United States Department of Agriculture places on food. In groups, they create a list of the foods they consume and discuss the political and environmental implications of purchasing the food. They...
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Intermediate Activity: Energy Guide Labels

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore energy efficient appliances.  In this economics and ecology lesson, students compare and analyze EnergyGuide labels of various appliances.  Young scholars discuss federal government involvement with consumer...
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Worksheet 3 Math 126: Ellipses and Hyperbolas

For Students 9th - 12th
In this ellipses and hyperbolas activity, students solve 8 short answer and graphing problems. Kids graph ellipses, hyperbolas, and parabolas given an equation. Students identify the foci of an ellipse or hyperbola.
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Find The Best Car

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Consider how to use consumer reports to review performance, price, reliability and safety information about specific cars. Young learners review how life styles and economics affect car choices. They then find solutions for car-buying...
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American Journeys: California

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work through a series of lessons to study the state of California. They participate in a geography journey activity, poetry activity, a research activity, and examine the rise of railroads in California. For each activity,...
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Counting Coins

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the American monetary system by utilizing different denominations. In this currency lesson, 2nd graders participate in a die rolling activity in which they collect coins based on the rolled number. Students add...
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Money Addition (E)

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this consumer math worksheet, students find the sums in 20 problems. They add three digit money amounts while using regrouping as needed.
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What Is the Total Amount? Pennies

For Students K - 1st
For this consumer math worksheet, students count the number of pennies that are shown in each of 5 sets. They write the number of pennies up to 8 on the line next to the sets.
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Can You Match the Coin's Name?

For Students K - 1st
In this consumer math worksheet, students draw a line between each matching coin and its name. They match the words penny, nickel, quarter, dime and half dollar.
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An Ocean of Energy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Young biologists trace the path of the sun's energy through marine ecosystems in the second part of this four-lesson series. Building on prior knowledge about producers, consumers, and decomposers students are introduced to the concept...

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