Goodwill
Gcf Global: Creating a Budget
Detailed lesson highlights strategies to use to create a sound financial budget.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Budget Now Before You Start Looking for a New Job
Learn how to budget so you can more freely search for your dream job.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Living Within Your Means
Tutorial provides handy tips for living within your means.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: The Pickle Patch Bathtub [Pdf]
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.
Other
Wells Fargo Bank: Hands on Banking for Teens
Mini learning modules that teach teens how to manage their money wisely and reach their financial goals.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Save a Million
Practical skills in finance and economics teach students about saving, budgeting, and retirement. Students can calculate what it takes to become a millionaire based on their age and income.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: A Penny Saved Is a Penny at 4.7% Earned
There are lots of ways to receive income, and lots of ways to spend it. In this EconomicsMinute you will develop two budgets to help you decide how to allocate your income. Assuming you do not love making dollar bill rings.
Other
Wells Fargo: Hands on Banking: Elementary School Course
Learning game for younger students in a lesson in economics in which students learn about banking, saving, budgeting, and money.
Practical Money Skills
Visa: Practical Money Skills: Lesson Plans for Grades 7 8
Fourteen financial literacy lesson plans for middle school students cover topics such as budgeting, living on your own, the influence of advertising, and saving and investing.
Other
California Jump Start: Money Rules 4 Kids
Ten money rules that every high school kid should know, available in both English and Spanish.
Other
Ally: Adventures With Money;: Planet Zeee and the Money Tree
Comic book for elementary students helps with understanding money concepts.
Other
Federal Bank of Richmond: Dollars and Sense Game
This budgeting game helps middle and high school students learn how to make smart financial choices and to stay within a budget. The teacher's guide and game are both available as PDFs.
Other
Montana State University: Using Check Registers to Track Your Expenses
[PDF] Explains a system of labeling a check register and recording expenses in a way to help students keep to a budget.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 4: How to Use Your Money
In this activity, young scholars will identify why having a budget and keeping records of their spending and saving habits helps them make better financial choices.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Money Matters: Where Does It Go?
In this project students will utilize math and reasoning skills to develop a personal budget. By weighing their expenses as "wants" vs. "needs," students will develop management skills and learn the importance of getting the most out of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Becoming a Wise Consumer: Creating a Budget
In this lesson, learners will learn how to become a wise consumer by creating a budget based on needs and wants. Students will create a weekly budget with a variable income using the interactive app MWB: My Weekly Budget available on...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: That's All I Have to Spend for a Whole Month?
As a part of the study of personal economics, middle schoolers will research a career, costs of rent, insurance, food, transportation, etc. and prepare a monthly budget based on their research.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Much Does It Cost?
Students will use an online mortgage calculator to determine the cost of financing a house over various lengths of time and at various interest rates. This lesson is excellent to include in a budgeting unit.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Much Will College Cost Me?
Students will research the cost of college by comparing a 2-year and a 4-year institution via the Internet. Students will follow-up with a presentation and prepare a monthly budget. This lesson plan contains a financial aid component.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Can You Survive in the Real World?
Living in the real world is expensive and sometimes hard for a new college graduate to adjust to. This lesson will allow middle schoolers to see the importance and need of budgeting money. Students will have to make choices and research...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Much Will This Lifestyle Cost?
Students will create a detailed monthly budget using a spreadsheet. The budget will depend on an individual's earning potential as determined by career choice and education. This is a project-based, Commerce and Information Technology...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's the Real Cost of That Car?
This is a Commerce and Information Technology lesson plan. A project requiring research, critical thinking and complex decision-making about factoring all the costs of purchasing a large ticket item - a car.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "All in the Family"
A cooperative unit where students work together and use a variety of math skills to establish budgets and compare and compute the best buys. Students will continue practicing their writing skills by writing thank you notes to local...