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What Is It to Be Financially Literate? Lesson PlanWhat Is It to Be Financially Literate? Lesson Plan
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K20 Learn
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7th - 12th
Subjects
Math
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Duration
2 hrs
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Collaborative Learning
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Year
2022
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English, Spanish
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What Is It to Be Financially Literate?

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What does it mean to be financially responsible? Develop a working definition of financial literacy with your classes. Using six scenarios, learners debate financially literate actions and develop a definition based on their decisions.

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Concepts

financial literacy, financial goals, personal finance

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math

Instructional Ideas

  • Partner with different subject areas to create an interdisciplinary lesson
  • Create a graphic organizer on the board to record examples and non-examples of financial literacy

Classroom Considerations

  • The lesson is heavy on vocabulary, which may be challenging to ELLs

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  • Incorporates different teaching strategies
  • Includes a graphic organizer to record vocabulary

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