Curated OER
Breaking News English: 50,000 Dead - US Token Aid
In this English worksheet, students read "50,000 Dead - US Token Aid," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Economic Choices
A learning module on choices people make with their money. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students will learn how families get...
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Making Spending Decisions
Students practice a commonly used decision-making model called PACED to help make spending decisions.
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission: Consumer: Making a Budget
Learn all about budgeting including saving money and how to make and use a budget. Includes examples.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing for Math Class: Follow the Path of Five Dollars
For this lesson, Pat Brisson's book Benny's Pennies is used as a mentor text. Young scholars will discover ways to spend money that meets specific criteria. Students must explain their process for their spending choices, and then they...
Other
The Mint: Take the Spending Challenge
This is an interactive game in which students are given an allowance and opportunities to spend money with friends They must make decisions on what to buy, whether to pay cash or with credit, or to save.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Making Spending Decisions
This lesson introduces guided, money-related, decision-making activities for children in preschool and kindergarten.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Lesson One: Making Spending Decisions
The goal of this lesson is to introduce structured spending decisions to assist young children in making choices and to recognize that money comes in limited amounts.
Practical Money Skills
Visa: Practical Money Skills for Life
Visa provides a resource that teachers, parents, and students will all enjoy using. There are lesson plans here for all ages, as well as information about spending decisions, budgeting, and money management. Print your own play money,...
Other
St. Petersburg Times: Money Stuff
This resource makes finance and all aspects of managing money understandable, including budgets, banking, credit, buying a car, and more.
Education.com
Education.com: Goods and Services: Let's Make a Deal!
[Free Registration/Login Required] Have your students experience the act of trading goods and services with bartering. In this activity, students will have the opportunity to make a deal, in order to get what they want. Better yet, make...
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Is Paying Over Time a Smart Move?
At T.V. 411 you can explore the concept of paying over time with situations involving credit cards, rent to own items, and more. This interactive lesson gives the learner an opportunity to make decisions about money management.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Where Does the Money Come From?
With very few exceptions, the U.S. federal government does not have an "income" to spend providing goods and services. The money used for federal spending programs must be collected as federal taxes, or it must be borrowed. This lesson...
Other
Bank of America: 8 Simple Ways to Save Money
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.
Other
Finance Authority of Maine: Claim Your 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...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 4: How to Use Your Money
In this lesson, students will identify why having a budget and keeping records of their spending and saving habits helps them make better financial choices.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Change Due
This lesson explains what making change is, contains a game and other resources to help you practice this important skill.
University of Missouri
University of Missouri St. Louis:wise Pockets: Kermit the Hermit
This is an elementary level lesson that deals with spending, saving, income, and interest. Requires the book Kermit the Hermit by Bill Peet. Includes detailed lesson plan along with procedures and activities.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Money Metropolis
Money skills game teaches students how to make money and what to do with it once they have earned it.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 2: Saving Money by Finding the Better Buy
Students will be able to make economically sound purchasing decisions by using unit pricing, calculating discounts, and analyzing fixed and variable costs.
Other
Wisconsin Educational Communications Board: Financial Literacy: Teach It!
Students at all grade levels learn about basic finance skills and explore ways to make informed decisions about their financial future.
Other
Economic Awareness Council: Your First Paycheck [Pdf]
Learn what all that information on your paycheck means, and learn to make smart decisions about how to use the money you earn.
Bankrate
Bankrate: How Do I Budget My Big Salary?
The site provides an accountant's view about the percentages of income we should budget for our monthly living expenses. A good resource for students interested in making and managing money. (Aug. 22, 2000)
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission: Consumer Information
The Federal Trade Commission has developed helpful investment articles and videos to assist consumers in making educated decisions about how they spend, manage and invest their money.