Help your class members learn how to use their income wisely with a comprehensive lesson plan on calculating monthly car payments. Using basic math skills and online calculators, your learners will determine the total amount to be...

Students explore unit pricing to determine the best buy for their money. In this personal finance lesson, students calculate cost per wear examples and create a list of criteria for picking clothes. Students visit a story and use their...

Students examine and discuss vocabulary dealing with finances. They write and develop commercials promoting savings practices and spending habits that incorporate emotional appeals.

What teenager wouldn't want a car? But before they make that big purchase, this exercise helps them to understand the costs involved. It includes a worksheet to calculate expenses like taxes and fees, maintenance, gas and insurance, as...

Global warming — what a hot topic! A thorough unit challenges learners to research, read, explore, and write about carbon, its role and increasing nature in our atmosphere, and how global warming is affecting lives and environments...

Students get a handle on their own personal finances. They discover how banks work, how to plan and stick to a budget, and other helpful tips on managing money. They study the Federal Reserve System, which oversees the nation's banks.

Students investigate consumer privacy and how it works. They also describe the rights and responsibilities of buyers and sellers under consumer protection laws and complete a list of activities and assignments on consumer privacy.

Students investigate the concepts of money management and banking through Internet activities. In this economics lesson plan, students discuss the characteristics of money and how people once bartered with goods instead of paying with...

High schoolers learn how a business starts and finds financial independence. For this lesson, students learn the struggle of financial management, the costs of running a business and how to keep a budget.

Students explore the concept of budgeting. For this budgeting lesson, students read an article about how a budget helps young adults keep track of their spending. Students discuss financial issues that young adults have to deal with as...

In this vocabulary review - money worksheet, 5th graders interactively complete 15 sentences by selecting the correct word about money and finances with immediate online feedback.

Students learn about budgeting, saving, dept, financial management, opportunity cost, and self-regulation. For this financial management lesson, students apply their knowledge of finance components and create their own web based plan...

How do people pay for college? Learners explore the concept of paying for college, they discuss possible ways to pay for college, research the cost of colleges, room and board, and other college living expenses.

Students explore U.S. History by analyzing the Great Depression. In this economic instability instructional activity, students read fictitious accounts of a farm dealing with the loss of a Strawberry Farm and discuss the reasons behind...

Students identify and define the various types of credit cards and credit card offers. For this credit cards lesson, students identify the pros and cons of managing a credit card account. Students locate information on the Federal...

Students study various forms of business organizations comparing and contrasting them to practices of the 1870's. They investigate the ways the businesses finance their transactions through loans.

Students examine credit cards and how they work, analyze credit card applications, and practice good spending habits in a credit card simulation.

Pupils investigate family budgeting methods. In this family budget instructional activity, students examine the wages and expenditures of family and participate in a simulation that requires them to employ the envelope budget method.

Students consider concepts of banking introduced in the story, "Basket of Bangles." In this banking lesson, students identify key terms through recall questions interspersed in the story. Using five handouts and a game, students compare...

Students develop the concept of finances. In this finance lesson, students watch a video called, "Moving Out." Students calculate the finances of a character in the video. Students experience various budget scenarios such as earning...

Students examine credit and how it works. In this financial literacy lesson, students review the pros and cons of credit in order to purchase goods and services by answering provided questions and working within a group to come up with a...

Students investigate the importance of campaign finances in elections in the United States by gathering information from various Web sites about campaign finances of different Presidential hopefuls.

Students explore the cost of college and how to plan and save. In this money management lesson students do research on the cost of college, learn about making financial choices, earning, spending, saving, investing and how they apply to...

No one said it was going to be easy to move out and live on your own. Kids find out through personal interview what life is like when one is out on his own. They interview a parent, ask for advice, and discuss common themes with the...