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Selecting Lower Priced Grocery Items
As adults, most individuals with special needs must live on a budget. Provide them with money management skills by teaching your class how to make price comparisons while shopping at the grocery store. They work through a series of...
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Savings Account, Bill Paying, and Money Order Skills
What do you do after you get a paycheck? Help your mildly disabled learners how to bank wisely with a guided-skills activity. They practice cashing checks, withdrawing money, paying bills, and procuring money orders. The entire learning...
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Energizing Our School
Students explore energy usage in home and in school. They examine the types of non-renewable sources and discover alternate sources of energy. Through group activities, students calculate the perimeter and area of a given room. They make...
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Technology Proposals
In groups or independently, learners interview their teachers to see what their technological needs are. They write a proposal that persuades them to purchase those supplies. Then they come up with a budget to get all teachers their...
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Budgeting for the Future
Eighth graders determine the net amount of an income for a fictional job. They must determine their net worth minus standard deductions. Students must then determine their monthly budget including, groceries, credit, and rent.
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Buying a Car
Middle schoolers learn how to manage their money. They view a PowerPoint presentation with instructions for researching and buying a car, select cars for themselves based on their budget, and respond to questions about the activity.
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Consumer Borrowing and Spending
Credit can be confusing for teens, some of whom are already using credit cards. Clear up misconceptions with this group research activity which has a solid outline with a lot of room to adjust to your needs and resources. Groups are...
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Scarcity and Choice
After reading the book A Bargain for Frances, young economists discuss how money is exchanged for goods or services. They demonstrate effective financial decision-making by listing ways to save money for a product they would like to buy.
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Creating a Federal Budget
High schoolers research how the government works together to create a budget. In groups, they examine each major spending category and their purpose. They identify the many challenges and compromises that must take place to agree on a...
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Budgeting: You Can't Manage What You Don't Know
Students discuss budgets. In this mathematics lesson, students watch an episode of Biz Kid$ about budgeting, participate in a guided group discussion, and create a pamphlet to teach others how to budget their money. Extension activities...
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What Can You Do With Money?
Learners watch a Biz Kidz video about money, learn what they can do with money, and fill out worksheets on what they learn. Students learn about spending, saving, donating, and investing.
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Radiation Budget
Students solve the mathematical word problems by looking at the Earth's Energy Budget Diagram. They will work in small groups and then develop their own unique math problems from the diagram and share with the class.
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Shopping-Unit Pricing
Comparing unit prices of food products is a skill that learners will use for the rest of their lives. Here is a simple plan that provides practice calculating the unit price for various grocery store products. Use two jars with differing...
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After 6 Months of Financial Dieting
Explore the concept of financial planning by reading an article about 5 families and their plans to save money. Students discuss the progress each family made financially after three months, and then make their own financial plan.
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-If You Made A Million
Students read If You Made A Million by David M. Schwartz. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of earning, saving and spending money. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social...
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Holiday Wish Lists
Have your class create wish lists in order to practice money-management skills. Learners make a list of items they would like to buy. Then they do research on the Internet to identify the price of each item. And, finally, they add up the...
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Eating Out In Class
Students order food off of a menu while staying within a specific budget. For this budget lesson plan, students can also add a tip and tax to their bill.
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Budgeting
Students develop a realistic budget. For this finance lesson, students discuss problems and issues related to making a budget. They focus on living within one's means.
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A Trip to Colonial Virginia
Students consider prices while planning a trip to Colonial Virginia. In this budgeting lesson, students construct an itinerary of events for a vacation. Students are responsible for working within the approved budget.
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Budget Worksheet
In this student budget worksheet, students fill in their incomes as well as their individual payments per month to chart where their money goes each month.
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Buying a Used Car
Students explore the advantages and disadvantages of purchasing a used vehicle. In this warranty lesson, students define "implied warranty of merchantability," then complete several activities that reinforce this concept, including a...
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Money, Money, Honey Bunny!
Students read a story about spending and saving money and talk about the difference between goods and services. For this money lesson plan, students also play a matching game to review the story and practice rhyming words from the story.
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Budgeting
Students establish budgeting techniques. In this Economics lesson, students work in small groups to prepare a budget for a simulation activity, purchasing new playground equipment.
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Band Tour Across America
Students plan the trip of a band across America. In this money planning lesson, students create a budget for the band using excel basic functions. They manage the band and its budget and relate the tour to future budgeting needs of the...