This site discusses eight way to save money including recording spending, saving for a goal, making a budget, plan on saving, choose something to save for, and pick the right tools.

How would you deal with the national budget if you were the President of the United States? What if there was a national emergency? This site includes a budget simulation on the computer that allows students to make real budget...

Just like a personal budget, the balance of payments uses the sources of funds and uses of funds to track the movement of money. In this article, we use a young wizard's budget to make the balance of payments more relatable. This...

This self-guided course is designed to give you the tools necessary to help manage money and plan for your financial future. Topics discussed are setting goals, making financial decisions, setting a budget, information on careers and...

Discusses the important criteria to consider when deciding what technology to implement in an organization. It talks about technical fit, technology maturity, skills needed, time to market when building a technology, solution scope,...

Although it's a game simulation here, in real life Congress and U.S. citizens must make hard decisions to stabilize the economy. Authors may be biased toward a certain political party, but nevertheless, the exercise in making tough...

We're going shopping in this integrated lesson. Students must make a budget, create a shopping list, and act out grocery shopping utilizing their problem solving and writing skills. A comprehensive lesson with printable worksheets,...

In this chapter, you will learn about how individuals make choices based on their budget constraints, the production possibilities frontier and social choices, and confronting objections to the economic approach.

In this lesson, students will learn about the basic components and terminology of individual health insurance. Students will make decisions about the value of insurance protection and you will identify trends in the cost of medical care...

Students will understand how a budget is created and how it can support good financial decision-making. They will begin to consider the role that saving plays in financial planning.

Investigate how an individual's career choice might affect their financial future.

This game can be played individually or as a class. Students make adult decisions about spending money, based on income from a particular career. This could help students decide on a career, as well as learning how to budget their...

Consumers are faced with tough choices because so many innovative and exciting products and services are available. Therefore, engraining a decision-making process that includes considering of opportunity cost is necessary to shape...

Using MS Excel and data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis web site on federal government spending, students will compare the amounts spent on various sectors and programs over a range of years.

When times got tough during the Great Depression, people played board games -- especially the game that's all about making money. The success of Monopoly befuddled many. Why, in a time of great financial despair, would families and...