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"Let's Make Some Money"
Students complete a project about economics, supply, and advertising. In this advertising lesson, students discuss how money is made, entrepreneurs, and advertising. They make their own business with toys to sell to Kindergartners.
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Money Smart Choices
Students 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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The Credit Safari
How cool, an interactive personal finance game! Young consumers play a real-life scenario game to practice making credit decisions. They play the game then discuss good and bad credit choices. The scenarios revolve around the use of a...
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Making Decisions
Young scholars explore how decisions are made and practice solving problems that require choices. They comprehend that solving problems requires a strategy or plan. Students recognize that "common sense" is really practiced...
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Skill Building for Educational and Vocational Advancement
Over ten weeks, 8th graders refine their visions of future careers, develop skills needed to write resumes and business letters, and learn to make a strong impression at interviews. Three specific activities are included, but mostly the...
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Money Matters Curriculum
Students complete a concept map on how money matters in our society. They use the internet to discover an online exhibit about money. They also complete a concept map.
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Reality Store: How to Plan a Budget, Pay Bills, and Manage Your Money
Students plan a budget and pay bills when they visit the "Reality Store," a series of classroom studying stations. The use of paying bills and running a class store is used to help students grasp the concept of business.
Council for Economic Education
A Penny Saved
A penny saved is a penny earned! Scholars research the different ways to save money over a lifetime. They investigate the Rule of 72, compound interest, and sub-prime loans to gain an understanding of how banks aid in the saving process....
Humanities Texas
Primary Source Worksheet: Thomas Jefferson, Confidential Message to Congress Concerning Western Exploration and Relations with the Indians
A confidential message written by Thomas Jefferson provides readers with an opportunity to practice their reading comprehension skills. The resource, part of a series, includes questions that require a close reading of the message and a...
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Making Choices
Students solve word problems relating to economic choices. In this economic choices instructional activity, students discuss the importance of budgeting and how to save money. Students complete a economic choices worksheet.
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The Influence of Advertising
Pupils become informed consumers and citizens with this lesson on the influence of advertising, identifying basic advertising techniques and discriminating between fact and claim in modern advertisements and commercials.
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Scarcity, Choice and Decisions
Students study the basic economic trilogy (scarcity, choice, and costs). In this money management activity, students use a scenario of a High School Prom to calculate how scarcity, choice and cost apply by completing provided worksheets...
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Money in Elections:What is it Doing to America?
Students investigate the role of money in American elections. In this current events lesson, students read and discuss articles that address money and political campaigns. Students may conduct further research on the topics presented in...
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Money Smart Teens
Students plan positive goals for spending resources and understand why not to spend. In this financial planning lesson plan, students set up personal spending plans based on their resources and their long term plans. Students plan for...
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The Story of the Federal Reserve: Middle School Lesson Plan
After reading the charming cartoon about the United States Federal Reserve, pupils often need to complete activities to retain their learning. The resource does a wonderful job of using class discussion and various written exercises to...
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Touring Delmarva
Students plan a trip. In this trip planning lesson, students use a map to find where they would like to visit with a pretend family of 4. They get a specific amount of money and time and need to decide where they will stay and what they...
Council for Economic Education
A Perfect Pet
Students read the story "The Perfect Pet". They examine how scarcity is a problem in society when people can not have everything they want which forces them to make (economic) choices.
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Special Ed.: Social Problem Solving Skills
Students explore the logical steps used for solving social problems. Using video scenarios, Through group instruction, they aid each other in the discussions decision making, and role-playing. Topics covered include situations related...
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Life Skills - Advertising Tricks - Learning About Food Advertisements
In this advertising instructional activity, students learn about food advertisements, including jingles, images, products, animation and more. They then complete the 3 activities in which they create their own product, spokes-character...
Council for Economic Education
Opportunity Cost
The price of those new shoes involves more than just money! Individuals explore the concept of opportunity cost using a video clip and gratification discussions. They prepare a budget based off of their set of values in regards to...
Anti-Defamation League
Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill: The Power of Symbols
How important are symbols and symbolic gestures in society? Middle schoolers have an opportunity to analyze the importance of symbols on American currency with a lesson that investigates the controversies surrounding redesigning the $5,...
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Spend, Save, Invest or Donate (9-12)
Young scholars explore the concept of personal finance. In this philanthropy lesson, students examine decisions they make about money as they discover the definitions of philanthropy, resources, scarcity, choice, benefits, costs,...
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How much money can you earn?
Fifth graders survey how to manage money and the importance of it. Students summarize that each day they have the opportunity to earn or lose money. Students provides many situations to present ways of paying bills and money management.
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Breaking News English: Microsoft Launches Bing Decision Engine
In this English worksheet, students read "Microsoft Launches Bing Decision Engine," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 10 true or false questions about the selection.