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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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Money Smart children
Students elementary financial vocabulary words: spend, save, invest and donate. In this finance lesson, students respond to the story "Sam and the Lucky Moon." Students describe the concepts of wants and needs, resources, scarcity,...
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Who Wants to Spend $20,000?
Who wouldn't want $20,000 to spend? But, the question becomes, what do you spend it on? Learners discuss loans, interest, and making adult-like financial decisions. They role-play a scenario that depicts the choices of a girl who took...
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Tarantula Shoes
Learners read a book about Ryan O'Keefe, a young man who wants a pair of basketball shoes promoted by a basketball star. They explore about spending, saving, opportunity cost, and trade-offs as they study Ryan's decisions throughout the...
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Money and Business (Art)
Third graders investigate world currency by creating their own coin art. In this government lesson, 3rd graders examine the characteristics of different coins and create their own design for a new one. Students discuss and present...
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Money and Business
Third graders use play money to complete tasks that allow them to see if the budget they came up with works. In this budget lesson plan, 3rd graders create their own budget and test it out with the play money.
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Learning to Spend, Learning to Give
Students create a monthly budget. In this finances lesson, students learn the terms budget, income and expenses. Students create a monthly spending plan and keep track of what they make and spend for the next 30 days. When complete,...
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Problem Solving
Students use hockey sticks to pick up bean bags and put them into hoops which they get money for in the end. In this movement and math lesson plan, students get fake money and add up how much they earned in the end based on how many...
CK-12 Foundation
Displaying Categorical Variables: Spending Habits
Bar or circle graph—which is best? Given a circle graph and a total amount of money earned, pupils calculate the amount of money in each category. Learners use the calculated amounts to create a bar graph and compare the two displays.
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Value of Education: Education and Earning Power
Pupils explore the earning power of someone with a post-high school education. In this education and income lesson, students evaluate examples of occupations, their salaries, and education level needed for the job. Pupils calculate their...
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SPENDING: Maintaining the Skill of Money
Fourth graders explore the concept of maintaining money. In this personal finance lesson, 4th graders earn "money" for cleaning their classroom desks. Students spend the "money" in the classroom and practice making change.
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Spending - Maintaining the skill of money
Third graders practice making change with money. In this subtraction lesson, 3rd graders watch a video about money. Students investigate what it means to earn money, spend it, and find their change.
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Extension: Money Math
In this money math worksheet, 4th graders write multiplication equations to solve a set of 6 word problems. Answers are included on page 2. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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I'm in the Money - Practical Money Skills
Students make a budget and utilize math skills to keep a record of what they spend. They use technology and spreadsheets to help them keep track of their money.
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Personal Savings: Saving Money for Those Items you Really Want
Learners explore how to save money to buy the things they want.
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Currency Depreciation
Eighth graders engage in the study of monetary currency while conducting research that focuses upon the time period of the Revolutionary War. The research is used to set the context for a class play. They pretend their is an auction and...
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TAKS Math Quiz-Currency Problems
For this TAKS math quiz worksheet, students take an online quiz focused on problems using currency. Quiz may be graded online by clicking a link.
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Math In Everyday Life
Second and third graders solve word problems involving both time and money. First the class works together to solve basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and simple fraction problems (these examples are provided). After solving...
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Learn to Earn When You Tend to Spend
Students examine spending and earning, and calculate change up to a dollar. They view and participate in demonstrations of earning and spending math problems, complete a worksheet, and play a game in pairs that simulates banking.
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Market Prices
Second graders understand that prices change. In this business, price and labor lesson, 2nd graders define the words market and price. Students read Arthur's Funny Money and answer questions related to earning and spending money....
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Thinking About Money
Students explore the concept of a personal budget. In this philanthropy activity, students use a Venn diagram to compare 2 stories in which the main characters spend money in different ways.
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Money Management
Students role play buying and selling items. In this economics lesson, students are given play money with which to purchase items, as well as value their own items for others to buy. Each student in the group works together to decide...
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Savings Accounts and Interest
First graders study money, banks, and getting interest on money. In this consumer math lesson plan, 1st graders listen to Stan and Jan Berenstain's, Berenstain Bears' Trouble With Money. They use the concepts in the book to discuss...
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Your First Job
Young scholars determine that they are responsible for paying income taxes through withholdings on earned income. They examine the Form W-4.