Council for Economic Education
Opportunity Cost
The price of those new shoes involves more than just money! Individuals explore the concept of opportunity cost using a video clip and gratification discussions. They prepare a budget based off of their set of values in regards to...
EngageNY
Buying a Car
Future car owners use geometric sums to calculate payments for a car loan in the 31st installment of a 35-part module. These same concepts provide the basis for calculating annuity payments.
National Association of Teacher Educators for Family and Consumer Science
Consumerism in the Classroom: Effective Strategies for Today's Teenage Consumers
Help class members become savvy consumers with a series of activities that has them analyzing marketing strategies, comparing the value of brand name versus off-brand clothing, and considering the advantages and...
Concord Consortium
Rising Prices
What will that cost in the future? The scenario provides pupils with a growth as a Consumer Price Index. Learners create functions for a given item to determine future prices and graph them. Class members then compare their functions to...
Balanced Assessment
Stock Market
Analyze trends in the stock market using histograms. Future economists use data presented in a histogram to find periods of greatest increase and decrease. They also draw conclusions about days that would be best to invest.
Curated OER
Metal Composition & the U.S. Mint
Learners study the meaning, symbolism, and value of U.S. coins,
especially the quarter. Theyresearch why in 1965 the U.S. Mint decided to
change the metal composition of the quarter to copper coated with nickel.
In addition, they perform...
Curated OER
Investing in the Future
Students investigate what investing is and how it works. They participate in a class discussion on investments, visit the "Investment Pier" on the ING website, and complete a worksheet in which they "build" a time capsule that contains...
Curated OER
'I'm Just Totally Lost' About Finances
Explore the concept of financial planning with your class. High schoolers read an article about planning for the financial future and discuss what steps the family in the article took to be financially sound. They consider where they...
Curated OER
The Stock Market
Students explore the loss and gain made in the stock market as they invest a sum of money and report the results as percentages instead of points.
Curated OER
Advanced Matching - Finances
In this financial terms worksheet, students draw a line from the financial terms on the left to their matching meaning on the right. There are 15 terms and definitions to match up.
Visa
The Tools to Build Your Financial Dream
When it comes to all the ways money management and financial responsibility weave into our daily lives as adults, make sure students are prepared to locate resources for managing their finances, such as a financial advisor.
Federal Reserve Bank
Creditors’ Criteria and Borrowers’ Rights and Responsibilities
Discover what criteria creditors use for making loans (the 3 Cs of Credit), and impress upon your young adults the rights and responsibilities related to using credit. Pupils role play as individuals seeking or providing credit, as...
Curated OER
Forecast Sunny and Warm
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students participate in hands-on activities that replicate building a foundation and providing for future generations.
Curated OER
The Stock Market: High School Economics
High school economists learn about the stock market in a project where they "buy" and track stocks. The author of this resource reports it is the high point of her 12th grade economics course, but no resources are attached. After viewing...
Curated OER
Acquiring Additional Capital Stock
Students become involved in the practice of learning about finance. The emphasis is on how one uses the stock market. One can also learn how to use personal finance and become acquainted with debt management.
Fuel the Brain
Comparing Numbers; Joining with No Regrouping
Your learners will know how solve word problems based on using coins. This skill will be important for the future so they can compare different coin values and how they add up, as well as how to join without regrouping.
Curated OER
Seeing Numbers In Tens And Ones
Second graders develop the skill of place values up to the tens place. They practice identifying the values of 2 digit numbers and writing the correlating values with counting. They use the example of money to make the lesson more...
Curated OER
Waste Minimization and Protecting the Environment
Pupils study the amount of waste produced and its effects on the environment. They discuss food, money, and energy and how their waste effects others. They read a play to explore how waste is produced and create a collage of materials...
Curated OER
Lesson 9: Tracking Commodities
Over the corse of a month, small groups will monitor the price of a specific energy commodity and analyze it in relation to global and domestic events. They play a trade simulation game and create infographics showing what they've...
Mathematics Vision Project
Module 2: Systems of Equations and Inequalities
The brother-sister pair Carlos and Clarita need your class's help in developing their new pet sitting business. Through a variety of scenarios and concerns presented to the siblings, the learners thoroughly explore systems of equations...
Mathematics Vision Project
Module 3: Polynomial Functions
An informative module highlights eight polynomial concepts. Learners work with polynomial functions, expressions, and equations through graphing, simplifying, and solving.
Curated OER
Financial Planning
Only six steps to achieving a financial goal! Provide learners of any age with the tools to make and follow through with a sound financial plan. They'll review each of six steps needed to make a solid financial plan and discuss why they...
Visa
The Art of Budgeting
Class members learn how to set up and maintain a personal budget through discussion, financial planning worksheets, and a brief PowerPoint presentation.
Wells Fargo
Hands on Banking
Encourage middle schoolers to be proficient and knowledgeable in the economic world with a series of personal finance lessons. Focusing on banking, credit, budgets, and investing, the activities guide learners through financial...