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Treasury Direct: Money Math: Secret of Becoming a Millionaire [Pdf]
This lesson focuses on understanding fractions, decimals and percentages as the math skills, and saving money and compounding interest as the economic skills. [PDF]
University of Nebraska Omaha
University of Omaha: Why We Save [Pdf]
Why do people need to save money? This lesson plan is geared for Kindergarten through 2nd grade and helps students understand the reasons for saving.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Lessons: Special Needs
Ten customizable financial lessons designed for special needs students.
Scholastic
Scholastic Lesson Plan: A Chair for My Mother
This extensive lesson plan uses the Children's Literature book "A Chair for My Mother," by Vera B. Williams to teach the concepts of saving and reaching a goal. Primary students are the target for this lesson.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 2: Money Planning
What can we do with money? Deciding on the best use of our money requires planning. Learners will identify ways that money can be used: spending, saving, and giving.
Practical Money Skills
Visa: Practical Money Skills: Lesson Plans for Grades 7 8
Fourteen financial literacy lesson plans for middle school learners cover topics such as budgeting, living on your own, the influence of advertising, and saving and investing.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Lessons: Grades 3 6
Four fiancial literacy lessons on allowances, money responsibility, saving, and comparison shopping. Lessons can be evaluated separately or as a group.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills for Life: Lesson Plans
A series of financial literacy lesson plans broken out by grade range for grades from Pre-K through college, with an additional set of lessons created for students with special needs.
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.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Loans and Savings
What are loans and how do they work? How do banks encourage people to save money? Students work on these questions in the context of the College Project.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Less Than Zero [Pdf]
This lesson accompanies a story by Stuart J. Murphy called Less Than Zero and teaches young scholars about how to manage their money by saving it and setting goals for themselves.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Assessing How You Manage Money
This lesson examines how to manage your money safely.
Learning to Give
Learning to Give: Spend, Save or Donate
This lesson plan will introduce vocabulary terms spend, save and donate. As a class, they will discuss, sing and perform the song "You Can Bank on Me. " The students will learn reasons that people choose to donate.
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Treasury Direct: Money Math: Lessons for Life: Math and Taxes:a Pair to Count On
Students have the opportunity to see how the money they earn is dependent, to a great extent, on the education they gain, by examining occupations and salaries. They then will use pay stubs and tax tables to learn what happens to the...
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Ucce: Money Talks
This resource provides activities such as: savings video, youth money newletters, financial literacy games, related links, and a teacher section.
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Finra Investor Education Foundation: Introduction to Earning Interest 11 & 12
Students will know and be able to use the formula for calculating compound interest and understand the effect of compounding on savings in this instructional activity.
Council for Economic Education
Council for Economic Education: Learning, Earning, and Investing
This course is subtitled "Lessons for a New Generation." It includes twenty-one downloadable lessons with additional activities for each lesson. It covers a wide range of topics from basics such as "Why Save?" and "Invest In Yourself" to...
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Lessons: College
Ten financial literacy lesson plans allow college young scholars to build on their skills and cover topics such as budgeting, living on your own, managing credit cards, cars and loans, and saving and investing.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Banks, Bankers, Banking
This lesson is a simulation of opening a bank. Students are assigned various roles to play within the banking business. Students learn about the role banks play in a market economy.
Internal Revenue Service
Irs: How Taxes Influence Behavior Lesson Plan
This lesson plan will help young scholars understand how taxes may influence the way people spend and save their money.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Climbing the Savings Mountain
Check out this lesson plan to learn how to develop a savings plan that is right for you.
University of Missouri
University of Missouri: Wise Pockets: Berenstain Bears' Trouble With Money
Using a Berenstain Bears' book, students are introduced to concepts such as spending, goods, services, income, saving, and interest. Lesson is detailed and has good activities. Includes questions about the story that teach students about...
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Saving and Investing
Explains the Rule of 72 with examples of compound interest and its power to help grow students' money.
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Finance Authority of Maine: Cash and Max: Look at All the Things Max Will Learn
A PDF coloring book for early elementary students provides basic lessons about earning and saving money.