TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineer a Coin Sorter
Students learn about the engineering design process and how it is used to engineer products for everyday use. Students individually brainstorm solutions for sorting coins and draw at least two design ideas. They work in small groups to...
Other
Wells Fargo Bank: Hands on Banking for Kids
Mini learning modules that teach kids about money and its worth. Students also learn how to set financial goals during these interactive activities.
Other
Rich Kid Smart Kid: Ima's Dream
Animated learning games for students in all grades K-12, teaches them about basic finance, how to save, give and invest.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Protecting Yourself From Identity Theft
After watching a video about the dangers of identity theft, students will choose actions that will help protect their personal information.
Scholastic
Scholastic Lesson Plan: A Chair for My Mother
This extensive lesson plan uses the Children's Literature book "A Chair for My Mother," by Vera B. Williams to teach the concepts of saving and reaching a goal. Primary students are the target for this lesson.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Learn to Build a Rocket in 5 Days or Your Money Back
In this lesson, learners discover the entire process that goes into designing a rocket for any customer. In prior lessons, students learned how rockets work, but now they learn what real-world decisions engineers have to make when...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Show Me the Money
Students learn about the major factors that comprise the design and construction cost of a modern bridge. Before a bridge design is completed, engineers provide overall cost estimates for construction of the bridge. Students learn about...
Social Science Education Consortium
Ssec: Inflation: Are Higher Prices the Only Problem? [Pdf]
This investigation begins with a discussion of spare change. Learners are asked to compare and analyze peoples' attitudes toward coins today to those of the past. Students then complete an activity that teaches them how to compare...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Making Cents Out of Centimes: The Euro
Use this intermediate lesson to teach your students about the European currency, the Euro. Interactive links take the learner to France where they learn about French money and French culture.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Evaluating Savings Scenarios
By analyzing real-world scenarios, students practice making informed decisions about savings tools to meet financial situations and needs. Includes teaching guide, a handout on options for saving money, and a student worksheet that can...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Want to Trade?
Students will write about what they would trade for gold and practice inventive spelling in the process. After reading "In 1492", students will discuss how Christopher Columbus traded with the natives and then write what they would trade...
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Exploring Careers in Your Community
Learners learn about careers that are available in their community by interviewing family members, friends, or other trusted adults to learn about the work they do. Includes teaching guide and student worksheets.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Bouncing Ball Budgets
Through an interactive game, students share spending decisions they've made in the past and start to think about their spending habits in new ways.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Exploring Savings Habits
Students learn about the benefits of forming their own savings habits and explore what it looks like to save a percentage of income.
University of Arizona
Family Economics & Financial Education
Explore these ready-to-teach economics lessons designed in a modular format. Reach all students by allowing them to learn about financial literacy through a variety of methods.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Enhancing Outcomes for Struggling Adolescent Readers
With so much required of high schools today, there is little time or money to spend on the students who lack basic skills. This article presents important factors leading to success for struggling adolescent readers, taken from...
BBC
Bbc: Skillswilse: The Number Line
This Skillswise site focuses on number lines. Included is a video about how to use number lines, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. Be aware that this is from Great Britain, so any games...