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Understanding the Risk of Substance Abuse Unit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Teenage brains are different! Understanding that the teenage brain is still developing and thus more impacted by substance abuse is the key concept in a three-lesson high school health unit. Participants learn about how the brain and...
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The REAL Cost of College

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars explore the cost of college and how to plan and save. In this money management lesson plan students do research on the cost of college, learn about making financial choices, earning, spending, saving, investing and how...
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Learning to Spend, Learning to Give

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a monthly budget. In this finances lesson, students learn the terms budget, income and expenses. Students create a monthly spending plan and keep track of what they make and spend for the next 30 days. When complete,...
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It's Your Future

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students learn about productive resources along with their requirements, supply and demand, savings, investments and interest rates. In this supply and demand instructional activity, students create a career plan and personal budget of...
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Introduction to Earning Interest: What are APR and APY?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore saving and investing money.  In this middle school personal finance lesson, students define and use investment vocabulary, explore compound interest and its effect of savings, and compute simple and compound...
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There's No Business Like Bank Business

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners participate in a role play where they see how a bank works and how interest is paid by having money in the bank. In this bank lesson plan, students operate a bank and learn about saving, accounts, deposits, withdrawals,...
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RISKY BUSINESS--OR NOT!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students learn about the importance and risk that stocks carry within a business. For this financial management lesson, students use role play and case scenario situations to decide what stocks are best for given companies. Based on the...
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Making Good Money Choices

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students play a game called Philanthropy EconAround Bingo and learn how to make smart money choices. In this money choices lesson plan, students play the game and discuss what choices would be better than others to maximize their money.
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Keeping Track of Our Money

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete activities to learn how to manage money. In this managing money lesson, 2nd graders read the book How the Second Grade Got $8,205.50 to Visit the Statue of Liberty and complete two related worksheets.
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Check It Out

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students discuss the many processes involved with personal banking. They create their own budget based on their career choices. They also practice balancing a checkbook.
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Financing Your College Education

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore sources for funding college educations. They compile a portfolio of information gathered during their research.
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Anticipatory Set for Japanese Internment

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students simulate Japanese relocation to internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They select items to pack that are personally, sentimentally, and financially important to them. They create a Venn diagram comparing and...
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Invest in Yourself

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils develop the concept of finances. In this finance lesson, students watch a video called, "Moving Out." Pupils calculate the finances of a character in the video. Students experience various budget scenarios such as earning debt,...
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Feudalism

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students have tournaments in teams after learning information about The Middle Ages. In this Middle Ages lesson plan, students learn that tournaments are mock battles, but that they will have these battles by answering questions in teams...
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Rebuild Your Community

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore the concept of rebuilding a community after a disaster. In this rebuilding after a disaster instructional activity, students discuss the role of government in rebuilding a community. Students discuss financial issues...
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Social Studies: Presidential Mock Interviews

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students, working in pairs, conduct mock interviews of American presidents, highlighting personal and political details. They research their chosen president on the Internet prior to their role-playing presentation. Students publish...
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Selecting the Best Material to Use While Solving Technological Problems

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine natural resources and discuss their pros and cons.  In this sustainable environment lesson, students describe reasons to use specific resources when faced with different problems, specifically why wood is a great...
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World War I: Letters from the Front

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students reesearch life on the home front and the front lines during World War I. They use primary and secondary sources to write letters. Students role-play as soldiers writing letters home and then assume the role of the person...
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Hank Williams: My Inspiration

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students research Hank Williams and explore his life and career. For this Hank Williams lesson, students complete Internet research, listen to example songs, and watch a movie all to analyze Hank Williams. The ultimate goal is to decide...
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What does it mean to be American?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a mural depicting what it means to be an American. In this being American lesson plan, students pull out magazine ads that depict what it means to be an American, then they make a mural out of it, and finally they present...
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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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Economics Questionnaire

For Students 8th - 12th
In this economics worksheet, students interview an adult in order to respond to 10 short answer questions about the current state of economics in America.
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Stretching Your Money with Coupons

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students examine ways to extend their budget with coupons. For this budgeting lesson, students read information about using coupons at the given website. Students make a list of 30-50 products they use in their homes and use online...
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The Myth of Voluntary Internment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars 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...