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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Choosing How to Get Paid
Students explore and compare common payment methods and pay periods that employers use. They apply their learning by voting on their preferred methods in a class poll. Includes teaching guide and student worksheet that can be filled in...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Investigating Taxes in Your Life
Students play a game to explore how tax revenues pay for various events and services they encounter in daily life.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Tracking Income and Benefits
Using a case study about an urban family, young scholars calculate monthly net income and explore how irregular income may make it challenging to manage monthly expenses.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Setting a Smart Savings Goal
Students discuss short-term and long-term goals and what makes a goal SMART. They then create their own short-term savings goal and make an action plan to meet that goal.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau:discovering the Benefits of Investing Early
Students use an online calculator and answer questions to learn about the value of investing early.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Exploring Careers in Your Community
Learners learn about careers that are available in their community by interviewing family members, friends, or other trusted adults to learn about the work they do. Includes teaching guide and student worksheets.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Becoming Familiar With Taxes
Students match tax types to definitions and then apply their knowledge to tax scenarios. Includes teaching guide and student handouts.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Creating a Savings First Aid Kit
Students learn the importance of developing an emergency savings fund to deal with unexpected challenges and unplanned expenses.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Comparing Stock Investments
Students learn how calculating capital gains and capital losses can help them evaluate stock investments.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Managing Credit Card Payments
Young scholars use a simple formula to calculate the true cost of items bought with a credit card.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Exploring Savings Habits
Students learn about the benefits of forming their own savings habits and explore what it looks like to save a percentage of income.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Exploring the Minimum Wage
Learners conduct research on a U.S. Department of Labor webpage to learn about the minimum wage and some laws affecting workers.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Calculating the Numbers in Your Paycheck
Students review a pay stub from a sample paycheck to understand the real-world effect of taxes and deductions on the amount of money they take home.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Calculating Rate of Return
Students calculate the rate of return to measure an investment's performance and answer questions about investing.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Acting Out Fraud
Students act out a skit to learn about different types of fraud.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Analyzing Credit Card Statements
Students conduct online research to become familiar with reading and analyzing credit card statements.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Getting a Credit Card and Using It Wisely
Students conduct research to learn about credit cards and explore the effect that using a credit card can have on a person's credit score.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Being a Responsible Borrower
Learners watch a role-play to learn about the behaviors of a responsible borrower and answer questions about borrowing.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Understanding Taxes and Your Paycheck
Students analyze statements about taxes to better understand how taxes affect people's paychecks.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Telling the Difference Between Loan Myths
Knowing the difference between loan myths and realities can help you become a responsible borrower. Students analyze statements about loans and decide whether they're a myth or reality.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Understanding Prepaid Cards
Students play a game and answer questions to learn about prepaid cards and explore whether they'd consider using them.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Creating a Buying Plan
Students practice creating a buying plan and apply this strategy to provide buying advice to others.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Playing an Investment Game
Students work in groups to explore real-world scenarios that can affect stock investments.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Understanding Jobs, Teens, and Taxes
Students review Internal Revenue Service webpages and respond to questions to explore the relationship between working and taxes.