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Magazine Sales Talks
Students role-play to determine the best types of magazines that should be purchased for their media center. They create a sales presentation for a particular magazine in small groups. As they listen to each presentation they evaluate...
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A Family Day Out
Students use all four operations to solve word problems involving money. A story about a family's day trip is included with sample word problems included. They must calculate costs, change, and budgeting. They report their calculations...
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Bank Comparison Activity
Students experience the responsibility of finding a bank that fits their needs. They describe the role of planning and maintaining a balanced budget. Students view brochures from various banks or websites to various banks.
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My Dream Home
Students investigate the concept of a dream home and create an architectural drawing of it. They design the home with a projected budget of $500,000. They research different designs with the intent of pulling ideas for their design....
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Brain Boosters - Using Money
If you have to feed 8 people are given a $20 budget at the grocery store, what will you buy? Have your youngsters complete these story problems and see how they plan on solving this challenge.
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Spend, Save or Donate
Learners identify the difference between spending, saving, and donating. They brainstorm reasons to give and options to donate. They sing a song about donating to charity.
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The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze
Students use the book, The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze, to explore spending, collecting, opportunity cost, saving, and speculating.
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Needs and Wants
Pupils examine the difference between psychological needs and wants to control spending.
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Personal Savings: Saving Money for Those Items you Really Want
Students explore how to save money to buy the things they want.
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Spending Spree
Pupils collect objects to use in a classroom store. In groups, they must place a value on each object and take turns spending their fake dollar in the store. They predict how much they can buy and use addition and subtraction to...
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Pocket Money And Pester Power
Students participate in a number of activities to examine how young people think about, use and make money. They determine what young people prefer to spend money on, if there are gender differences and how they compare to students in...
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Saving and Spending
Students identify the reasons why they believe people save money. After this list, they discuss what they spend their money on and determine if the reasons for saving money change over time. In groups, they use the story of "Uncle Jed's...
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Stone Fox and Economics
Students read the novel Stone Fox and review economic concepts including income, goods, and services. They define the following terms: capital, credit, credit risk and summarize their reading by reading several chapters at a time. They...
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Creating a Savings Chart
Student create a savings chart given a set allowance per week. They explain how people in the local community make choices about using goods, services, and productive resources, and how they compare costs and benefits in economic...
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Spending
Students participate in a lesson that illustrates the concept of spending and how it effects the economy. Technology is integrated in this study with the use of a computer simulation of a pinball game that shows how fast money can be spent.
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The Real Way to Moolah Beach!
Students explore various avenues to the difficulties of managing money. They view key insights into the basics of managing their finances. Keeping an accurate checkbook and accounting system is covered in depth within this lesson.
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Describe How Money Barter, and Credit Were Used in Colonial Virginia
Fourth graders listen as the teacher lectures about bartering. They work in small groups to define and create a skit about one term related to bartering. Students create an Economic Terms booklet. They review that tobacco was a cash crop...
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Savings On Best Buys
In this math instructional activity, students do some comparison shopping using items found in the market. They also calculate the savings earned.
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Minding Your Money
In this money worksheet, students solve 5 word problems pertaining to buying snacks at a shop. Students determine how much money is left after subtracting the cost of their snack from a specified amount of money.
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PAY CREDIT WHEN CREDIT IS DUE
Students learn about credit cards and scores and how to and not to use them. In this financial concept instructional activity, students are given hypothetical scenarios where they are able to apply learning's to given situations as they...
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Why We Save
Learners discover how to save money. In this financial planning lesson, students read the story Spend or Save? and discuss ways to save money. Learners choose a character from the story and write about a financial decision they had to make.
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Saving Makes Cents
Students identify ways families save money. In this financial lesson plan, students read the book A Chair for My Mother and discuss ways to save money. Students identify coin values and practice counting money.
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Shopping!!!
Students explore money management. In this financial awareness lesson, students are given an amount of money and a sheet of objects to choose from to buy. Students choose only five objects they can afford to "buy."
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Checks and Balances
Students discuss elements of financial planning. In this personal finance lesson, students practice filling out personal banking information. Students conduct research using the Internet and a PowerPoint presentation to find...
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