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Federal Reserve Bank

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: Why Johnny Can't Choose

For Students 9th - 10th
If you don't know what the economy is or how it works, this site is for you. It is broken into subsections that make it easy to understand the economy.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Creating a Household Budget

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum PowerPoint module, young scholars create a household budget by tracking their expenditures over a month-long period. Students use Microsoft Excel to create a spreadsheet to track their own...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Field Day Scarcity

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students will learn about managing money and scarcity while practicing addition and subtraction. They will be given a certain amount of money to spend at a fictitious store. Included are discussion questions about how students decided to...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Delayed Gratification

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
You won first place at your school Science Fair and have 2 choices for your prize!! The purpose of this task is for students to compare two options for a prize where the value of one is given $2 at a time, giving them an opportunity to...
Interactive
Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Save a Million

For Students 9th - 10th
Practical skills in finance and economics teach students about saving, budgeting, and retirement. Students can calculate what it takes to become a millionaire based on their age and income.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" by Mildred D. Taylor

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected (8) reading passages (grades 6-10) to pair with "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" by Mildred D. Taylor. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry tells the story of the Logan family combating racial tension and segregation in Mississippi during...
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Lessons: Pre K Grade2

For Teachers K - 1st
Four lessons on basic money skills for young learners cover topics such as identifying money, spending money, and earning money.
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Other

California Jump Start: Money Rules 4 Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
Ten money rules that every high school kid should know, available in both English and Spanish.
eBook
Other

Ally: Adventures With Money;: Planet Zeee and the Money Tree

For Students K - 1st
Comic book for elementary students helps with understanding money concepts.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: If You're Working With My Money

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, learners will handle money by opening a cash fund, arranging the money in a cash drawer, make change, and reconcile the cash drawer at the end of a business day. After learning the procedure for handling and...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Charge It?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will select appropriate and inappropriate uses of credit cards by role-playing a college student who must choose to either use cash or a credit card to pay for a variety of real-life scenarios. This lesson plan...
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Federal Trade Commission

Federal Trade Commission: Managing Debt

For Students 9th - 10th
Debt is the money you owe someone and its not always bad. Learn what it is, how to get out of it, and where to start.
eBook
Other

Wyoming Retirement System: Sonia Meets Her Future Self

For Teachers 4th - 7th
PDF comic book character, Sonia, a 6th grader, meets several future versions of herself and learns about saving for retirement.
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Thinkport Education

Maryland Public Television: Plan Your Dream Prom

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive, you decide what to wear, how to ride and more. More importantly, find out if you have enough loot to cover your choices.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Personal Economics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will be able to explain the various services available to protect consumer rights. They will develop a PowerPoint presentation in their student achievement teams which contains the required information along with a question...
Interactive
Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Contemporary Voices

For Students 9th - 10th
When the Museum of Modern Art acquired a collection of contemporary works from UBS, a financial services firm, it developed an exhibition to show off its new treasures. At this technologically engaging site, full of artist interviews and...
Unit Plan
Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Greece and the Eu: Navigating Debt and Austerity

For Students 9th - 10th
Multi-media resources including video, handouts, and readings for students learning about the effects of the 2008 financial crisis in Greece and the European Economic Eurozone.
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Federal Reserve Bank

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Where Do You Bank?

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduces students to the factors they should consider when they choose banking services.
Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Income Budgeting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site contains a unit on budgeting money for use by middle school teachers. Includes enrichment problems, a bibliography, and many example problems and situations.
Website
Other

Junior Achievement Canada

For Students 9th - 10th
This organization offers programs for youth to help them understand about business and how to start one. It also offers in-school presentations. They have chapters all across Canada.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Network Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
From social media to massive financial institutions, we live within a web of networks. But how do they work? How does Googling a single word provide millions of results? Marc Samet investigates how these networks keep us connected and...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Budgeting

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustrates the difference between sources of income and fixed versus variable expenses through a simple budget plan. Introduces students to the basics of budgeting.
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PBS

Pbs Nova: Play a Virtual Market

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to trade traditional stocks and learn how trading stocks in the market can increase your wealth (or decrease it too!)
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PBS

Pbs Lesson Plan: What the World Consumes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
These visual, easy-to-grasp lessons in world economics and consumerism features lessons and related videos in which students experience first-hand the economic dilemmas faced by other countries and are asked to examine their own values...

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