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Your First Job
Students determine that they are responsible for paying income taxes through withholdings on earned income. They examine the Form W-4.
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Business: Making a Budget
Students plan a one-month budget, allowing for unexpected expenses. Using checkbook skills, they pay mock bills. Working in small groups, students watch a teacher-prepared Powerpoint presentation, visit financial Websites, and utilize...
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Food Preservation
Students examine the different food canning methods and how to be safe canning. In this canning lesson students examine the hazards of improperly canning.
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My World Wide Tour of Spanish Speaking Countries
Young scholars organize a two week travel plan through Spanish speaking countries all over the world. plan their flight schedules, accommodations, and tours of cultural events. Students compute the total cost of their trip.
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Resources and Recipes for Independent Living
Young scholars discover how to prepare low-cost, nutritional meals. In this personal health instructional activity, students analyze nutritional standards, plan a nutritional meal, budget for the meal, and share their findings with their...
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Mr. Goldman's Good Idea
Shopping carts are a modern convenience that many people take for granted. Make sure your pupils do not fall into that category by completing the activities in this plan. There are ideas included for language arts, social studies, math,...
Doing Maths
Insulating the House
Finding the area of a rectangle is the focus of this metric worksheet. Here, mathematicians use their knowledge of finding the area of a shape in meters to discover how much material can fit inside a shape.
Breaking News English
More People to Stick to New Year's Resolutions
What makes a good New Year's resolution? Practice goal-setting and reading comprehension with a set of language arts activities. English learners work on cloze passages, synonym matches, interviewing exercises, and...
Visa
Financial Forces: Understanding Taxes and Inflation
Take the opportunity to offer your young adults some important financial wisdom on the way taxes and inflation will affect their lives in the future. Through discussion and review of different real-world scenarios provided...
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Forecast Sunny and Warm
Young scholars 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.
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Interest and Credit
Students define interest and credit. In this algebra lesson, students analyze the pros and cons of having credit versus debit and interest as it applies to credit and debit. Students apply the ideas of interest and credit in their...
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Energy Efficient Appliances
Learners use the Internet to research energy efficient appliances. They discover tips on how to save energy in the home and how to read the EnergyGuide labels. They also examine ways to reduce the amount of water that is used.
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The Magic Pot
In this reading comprehension lesson, students use the book "The Magic Pot," to explore many concepts including; story elements, sequencing, and phonics. Students also practice making doubles using coins and "magic pots." This very...
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Building Tolerance for Poverty in Math
Students explore approximate and exact solutions. In this interdisciplinary lesson plan, 6th graders will be placed in 'family groups' to create a budget that is subject to random events as chosen from the 'things happen' box. This...
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Kids' Kompany
Students explore philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students determine ways to earn money and consider how to use money for the common good.
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Beanie Baby Bonanza
Third graders add and subtract decimals. In this third grade mathematics lesson, 3rd graders are given an imaginary $100 to purchase five Beanie Babies. Students determine which five they would like to purchase and estimate...
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Graphing It Out
Students create bar graphs. In this graphing activity, students explore the concepts of net pay, gross pay, income and expenses. They create a bar graph to designate financial outlay during a specified period.
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Using a Calculator
Students use a calculator to solve math problems. In this calculator usage lesson plan, students get into pairs and familiarize themselves with the keys. Students are then given problems to solve using the calculator. Students do Smart...
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Debit or Credit-You Decide
Students identify the similarities and differences between an debit and credit card. For this debit or credit lesson plan, student explain the advantages and disadvantages of using cash and consumer credit to purchase good and services...
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Claiming Common Ground? The Civil War and the Preservation of Claiming Common Ground? The Civil War and the Preservation of George Washington's Mount Vernon
Middle schoolers explore how people viewed George Washington in the 19th Century. In this U.S. History lesson, students create a timeline of events during the Civil War, including government and court decisions. Following...
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Father Knows Best, Write a Father's Day Letter
Students write a Father's Day letter. In this friendly letter writing lesson, students brainstorm a list of parent responsibilities, then write three specific ways their fathers care for them. Students share learning experiences they...
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Banking on Family
Students examine the meaning of a trust bank account. In this financial awareness lesson, students brainstorm ways they are trustworthy to their family and define the meaning of a trust bank account.
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The Yo-Yo Problem: Solving Linear Equations
Students compute the length of time it will take to save enough money to purchase a yo-yo. In this math lesson plan, students create a design with pennies and write the associated linear equation. In this linear equations lesson plan,...
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Create a Slide Presentation
Students create a PowerPoint presentation. In this technology lesson, students create an autobiographical six slide presentation. This lesson includes worksheets explaining how the slide layout should be and a storyboard to help the...