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Budgeting Your Financial Resources (The Mint)
Students plan and maintain balanced budgets.
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Money Management Part I: Money and You: An Introduction to Money Management and Budgeting
Learners discuss personal finance and create personal budgets. They discuss the importance of managing their money and how money management skills impact their future. Note: This lesson is intended for use with a SMART Board and...
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Family Faces a Real Struggle In Saving Money For College
Explore the concept of savings with your high schoolers. They read an article about saving money for retirement and as a way to pay for college. They discuss the financial needs of the family in the article in regards to saving for...
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Family Money Matters: Exploring the World of Economics
Students become familiar with vocabulary related to spending money. In this economics lesson, students participate in activities to learn about spending money and budgets.
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Buying and Owning a Home: Monthly Budget Worksheet
In this personal finance activity, students complete the graphic organizer as they chart the 40 listed monthly expenses for 2 months.
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Money Worksheet
In this personal finance activity, students use their problem solving skills to calculate exchange rates and practice writing checks.
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Interest Rate Assignment
In this personal finance worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to calculate interest rates for loans of different lengths of time.
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Interest Rates Worksheet
In this economics activity, students use their problem solving skills to calculate monthly payments, costs of loans, and interest charged.
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Wealth of Wisdom
Students determine what to do with money. In this personal finance instructional activity, students discuss budgeting, savings, and loans with their instructor. Students then participate in classroom activities that require them to...
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Take Charge of Your Financial Future
Students discuss Biz Kids understanding that it is a program to help people become financially educated. In this mathematics instructional activity, students view an episode and discuss what they would do if given various situations like...
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Math and Money
Students explore financial literacy. In this middle school mathematics lesson, students investigate income, taxes, and costs of living. Students investigate banking and use straightforward computation to learn about savings,...
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Managing Your Food Money
Students investigate family budgeting methods. In this family budget lesson plan, students examine the wages and expenditures of family and participate in a simulation that requires them to employ the envelope budget method.
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SPENDING: Maintaining the Skill of Money
Fourth graders explore the concept of maintaining money. In this personal finance lesson, 4th graders earn "money" for cleaning their classroom desks. Students spend the "money" in the classroom and practice making change.
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Activity 1: If I Had Ten Dollars
In this money matters worksheet, students fill in the blank in 12 sentences pertaining to what they would if they had 10 dollars.
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Credit Inventory
In this money management worksheet, students read a paragraph regarding credit and then respond to 6 short answer questions regarding credit.
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Not for a Billion Gazillion Dollars
Students discover what debt, saving, and credit are. In this personal finance lesson, the teacher reads Not for a Billion Gazillion Dollars, and the students discuss what the main character does in the book in relation to debt,...
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Kermit the Hermit
Learners consider money management. In this personal finances lesson, students read Kermit the Hermit and discuss what was done with the unexpected money that Kermit received. Learners examine methods of saving money and...
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The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze
Students explore personal finances. In this money management instructional activity, students read The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze. Students examine the spending habits of Brother Bear and Sister Bear. Students analyze...
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The Leaves in October
Students determine whether or not to save or spend and defend a decision. In this personal finance instructional activity, students identify opportunity cost of various spending and saving decisions. Students read a story where two...
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Managing My Money
Second graders use The Berenstain Bears' to learn about money management. In this money management lesson, 2nd graders read The Berenstain Bears' Dollars and Sense book and complete the 'Rainy Day' worksheet. Students then discuss the...
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Keeping Track of Our Money
Second graders complete activities to learn how to manage money. In this managing money lesson, 2nd graders read the book How the Second Grade Got $8,205.50 to Visit the Statue of Liberty and complete two related worksheets.
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We Don't Waste Money, So Where Does It All Go?
Learners explore the concept of financial planning. In this financial planning lesson plan, students read an article about different families' financial plans. Learners select 10 stocks to monitor over the next four weeks.
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Spend, Save, Invest or Donate
Young scholars explore the concept of philanthropy. In this personal finance lesson, students consider economic choices and why people donate to causes. Young scholars investigate the processes of borrowing money and investing money in...
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A Budget Can Help Young People Cut Their Spending
High schoolers explore the concept of budgeting. For this budgeting lesson, students read an article about how a budget helps young adults keep track of their spending. High schoolers discuss financial issues that young adults have to...