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Income and Outcomes

For Teachers 8th
Bring financial literacy into your classroom. Learners use peer support to reflect on their spending and how it reflects their income and their values.
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Healthy Native Youth

Chapter 7: Revisiting the Circle of Life

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Scholars revisit the Circle of Life to examine positive character traits—mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional. Pupils discuss how those character traits could help them make responsible decisions and not contract HIV/AIDS. Learners...
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PLS 3rd Learning

Complete Adjustment Column of a Worksheet

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Accounting is a vital skill for personal finance management and when running a business. As part of a larger lesson, learners fill out the adjustments column of an accounting worksheet. They practice keeping records on a real budgeting...
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Shopping for a Party

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders produce a budget for a party.  In this money management lesson plan, 2nd graders create a budget for an imaginary party they will have based on a $20.00 limit.  Students observe a video clip in class discussing budgets. 
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Financial Literacy - Saving and Investing

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine how money can work differently for every individual, identify various sources for saving and investing, and discuss most beneficial savings or investing plans for one's budget.
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Accounting

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore the principals of accounting and operating a business.  In this business or financial math class, students investigate business documents, day books, bookkeeping, balance sheets, etc. in this self-paced comprehensive unit. 
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Making Money

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students consider career options. In this career planning lesson, students practice job interviewing skills, examine payroll checks and discuss employee benefits.
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Banking Basics

For Students 9th - 12th
Learners examine ways to make money grow through banking basics. In this banking basics lesson, students identify the types of bank accounts and explore the different types of accounts. Learners work in pairs to create pamphlets about...
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Stretching Your Money with Coupons

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Young scholars examine ways to extend their budget with coupons. In this budgeting instructional activity, students read information about using coupons at the given website. Young scholars make a list of 30-50 products they use in their...
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Curated OER

How To Estabish And Use Credit

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students investigate how to establish and use credit. They research the application and use process and the effects upon personal finance when using credit. The qualifying indicators are looked at determined whether they are fair during...
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Curated OER

Banking Services

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze the banking services and complete related activities. In this banking instructional activity, students review the services available at a bank and interview people for about the banking services they use. Students shop...
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Making Money

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this money skills instructional activity, students answer financial questions based on their own money situation. Studetns complete seven pages of related activities.
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Curated OER

The Myth of Voluntary Internment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the Alien Enemies Act and Executive Order 9095. They explore both the financial and emotional ramifications of having a parent arrested or interned. They research what daily life was like in U.S. Internment camps during...
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Curated OER

Perform Accounting Functions

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students practice performing various accounting functions. Given analysis records, they prepare cost and revenue analysis based on specific criteria. They complete handouts and review their answers as a class. They also discuss the...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Saving and Investing for the Long Term

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Create savvy investors with an activity that uses an online resource to allow individuals to invest in the stock market. The teacher is able to track activity and progress. Stock tips and strategies are shared.
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California Academy of Science

Food for Thought: Defining a Problem to Find a Solution

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Scholars approach a problem trying to plan a meal for a class party. They learn about the restrictions and must decide what information they need to plan the meal. The first lesson in a 13-part unit on Our Hungry Planet encourages...
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Balance of Payments (BOP)

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners work through ten transactions that will help them understand credits and debts on a global scale. They then discuss each transaction in terms of the global economy. An extension activity and discussion questions are included.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Direct Object Pronouns

For Students 4th - 6th
In this direct object pronouns worksheet, students read sentences and identify direct objects, then change the direct objects to pronouns. Students determine seventeen answers.
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Curated OER

A Basket of Bangles: How a Business Begins

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students consider concepts of banking introduced in the story, "Basket of Bangles." In this banking activity, students identify key terms through recall questions interspersed in the story. Using five handouts and a game, students...
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Curated OER

To Get the Right Answers about College: Ask the Right Questions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students survey college students.  In this instructional activity, students explore typical costs.  They examine education loans.  Students complete a FASFA form and write an essay describing plans for obtaining money for college expenses.
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Checkbook

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine how to balance a checkbook.  In this economics lesson, students demonstrate that they can balance a checkbook by completing an activity that includes a check register and bank statement.
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Worksheet 2. Vocabulary Practice

For Students 5th - 7th
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students choose the word or phrase that means the same as the word or phrase in bold in each sentence. There are 12 questions to answer.
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Worksheet
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Predictions by Famous People in History

For Students 7th - 9th
For this prediction worksheet, students read 5 predictions made by famous historical people. They decide if the predictions became true or if it turned out to be false. They use a word bank at the bottom of the page to aid in comprehension.
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Worksheet
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Vocabulary Review - Chapter 11

For Students 5th - 6th
In this vocabulary review worksheet, students choose the word or phrase that means the same as the word or phrase that is given. They are given two choices to pick from in the 10 examples on the page.