"Tarantula Shoes," by Tom Birdseye

Who wouldn't want $20,000 to spend? But, the question becomes, what do you spend it on? Learners discuss loans, interest, and making adult-like financial decisions. They role-play a scenario that depicts the choices of a girl who took...

People often save money, but what are the benefits and drawbacks of that action? Youngsters learn about saving, savings, and opportunity cost through the lens of a short book, called Something Special for Me.

What do your pupils want to save up their money for? Based around the book The Pickle Patch Bathtub, this lesson covers opportunity cost, saving, and spending. Learners participate in a discussion and practice making their own savings...

A lesson based on The Pickle Patch Bathtub by Frances Kennedy, where students learn about making choices in how to spend money, and how to set goals and develop a savings plan.

Making decisions can be very difficult. Show your class one way to evaluate choices with this lesson plan, which is inspired by the book Glo Goes Shopping. Learners practicing using a decision-making grid with the content of the story...

Students 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 they...

Students examine concepts of personal finance. In this personal finance instructional activity, students use Valerie Tripp's, Meet Molly, An American Girl, to learn about saving and spending after World War II. They compare financial...

Students discuss the benefits of volunteering. In this creating volunteers lesson, students consider philanthropic actions and opportunity costs. Students create a song and visual aid about being a volunteer.

All resources are limited. It is this simple fact--scarcity--that forces us to make decisions. When we do make a choice, we pass up some other opportunity. Opportunity cost is defined as the next best alternative not chosen, or the...

Students learn about budgeting, saving, dept, financial management, opportunity cost, and self-regulation. In this financial management lesson, students apply their knowledge of finance components and create their own web based plan...