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Buying a Home
What is the difference between buying and renting a home? Learners become more informed consumers and financially literate adults after developing foundational knowledge of the home-buying process.
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The Art of Budgeting
Class members learn how to set up and maintain a personal budget through discussion, financial planning worksheets, and a brief PowerPoint presentation.
Visa
Making Money
From evaluating the current employment market to building a resume, pupils are introduced to the wide and varied elements of career planning.
Visa
Money Responsibility
Introduce young learners to the important life skill of responsibly managing money and recording how much they spend and save.
Illustrative Mathematics
Setting Goals
Setting financial goals is a common occurrence in middle school that your learners can practice using this activity. They will be able to solve for how many hours Seth needs to work to save up for a skateboard, helmet, and trip. The...
Curated OER
Financial Planning
Only six steps to achieving a financial goal! Provide learners of any age with the tools to make and follow through with a sound financial plan. They'll review each of six steps needed to make a solid financial plan and discuss why they...
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Setting Goals: Finance
First, learners discuss the difference between short- and long-term goals, then they establish their own financial goals. They fill out a financial goal worksheet, create a long-term goal collage, and respond to a writing prompt defining...
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Goal Setting
Talk about the importance of goal setting. Financial and personal goal sheets are displayed to show learners various ways that people set goals. After the short presentation the class addresses a writing prompt that asks them to identify...
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Money Matters to Me
Fourth graders explore economics by identifying financial goals. In this consumerism instructional activity, 4th graders discuss money matters and how to conserve an income when they get older in order to achieve their goals. Students...
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Thinking About Money
Pupils explore the concept of a personal budget. In this philanthropy lesson, students use a Venn diagram to compare 2 stories in which the main characters spend money in different ways.
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Money Smart Teens
Students plan positive goals for spending resources and understand why not to spend. In this financial planning instructional activity, students set up personal spending plans based on their resources and their long term plans. Students...
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Saving For Your Future
Students examine their long-term financial goals and research the costs of their goals and investment strategies for meeting them. They identify their goals for the future, conduct Internet research on prices for items on their list,...
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The Art of Budgeting
In this budgeting learning exercise, learners complete 15 pages of activities to help them set financial goals and complete budgeting activities.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Business & Personal Finance: Module 1: Financial Planning
This self-guided course is designed to give you the tools necessary to help manage money and plan for your financial future. Topics discussed are setting goals, making financial decisions, setting a budget, information on careers and...
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Assessing How You Manage Money
This lesson examines how to manage your money safely.
Other
Smart About Money: 40 Money Management Tips Every College Student Should Know
[PDF] This downloadable brochure will help high school students prepare for the financial decisions they will need to make once high school is over.
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission: Consumer: Making a Budget
Learn all about budgeting including saving money and how to make and use a budget. Includes examples.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Lesson Two: Spending Plans
This lesson introduces children to the concept of dividing their money into categories, namely "save," "spend," and "share" and presents activities that will help them understand that money is limited in quantity and must be divided for...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Financial Education
Every goal starts with taking the first step. Teaching kids to save money by collecting in a specific place such as a piggy bank or a jar shows kids concretely how much they are saving. Every time you save up to a certain small, new...
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Comparing Saving and Investing
Young scholars explore the differences between saving and investing and answer questions about which one they'd use to reach different financial goals.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Budgeting
Illustrates the difference between sources of income and fixed versus variable expenses through a simple budget plan. Introduces students to the basics of budgeting.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Cfpb: Contrasting Long Term and Short Term Savings Goals
Students learn the difference between short-term and long-term savings goals and apply their knowledge in an exercise-oriented game.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Storing My Savings
Students read descriptions of common places to store their money and weigh the benefits and risks of each to decide which one(s) fit their financial goals.
Google
Google for Education: Life on Minimum Wage
A game where students try to reach financial goals by working and budgeting their money. Site includes rules for games as well as playing pieces.