Financial literacy is generally focused on personal spending and saving, but consider an opportunity to talk to your pupils about how charitable giving can also factor into money management and how it can enhance life for both oneself and others.

Concepts

charity, personal finance, financial goals, financial literacy, spending money

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Host an ongoing class project in which pupils work together as entrepreneurs (i.e. hosting garage sales or selling products at school functions) in order to raise money for a local charity of their choice

Classroom Considerations

• This is the last of 22 lessons designed to provide learners with a strong financial literacy and money management skills

Pros

• Valuable life lesson
• Excellent teaching suggestions on right sidebar of document
• All worksheets and answer keys included

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.9-10.1 RI.11-12.1 W.9-10.7 W.9-10.8 W.11-12.7 W.11-12.8 SL.9-10.1.a SL.11-12.1.a