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Learning to Spend, Learning to Give

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create a monthly budget. In this finances lesson, students learn the terms budget, income and expenses. Middle schoolers create a monthly spending plan and keep track of what they make and spend for the next 30 days. ...
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The Hundred Penny Box

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students analyze the advantages of regular saving and how savings grow with compounding. After reading the story "The Hundred Penny Box", students define the terms "interest," "interest rate," and "compounding." Through several...
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Personal Budgeting Project

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students create an Excel spreadsheet of a personal budget by estimating their possible income and monthly expenses from a worksheet. They group together to create a family unit and use the personal budget sheets to plan a family budget.
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Building Budgets

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore New York City's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. They estimate budget allocations for such a proposal while practicing the calculation of percentages.
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Thinking About Money

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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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Four Dollars and Fifty Cents

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students role play a scenario between a creditor and debtor. In this consumer education lesson, students read the book Four Dollars and Fifty Cents, discuss the vocabulary introduced in the book and role play a  situation between a...
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Cashing a Check and Using an ATM

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Banking is a key skill all individuals should practice. Provide a hands-on exercise to encourage the proper method of writing a check and using an ATM. The lesson prompts special needs students with full assistance until mastery is...
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Savings and Earnings

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders complete several activities to learn about earning, budgeting, and saving money. In this saving money activity, 5th graders read a book about saving money and complete a 'Savings and Earnings' worksheet. Students work in...
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All I Want For Christmas

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create wish lists from catalogues and sales ads based on a given budget. They add, subtract, estimate, and budget their given amount of money so they don't go over budget.
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Financial Literacy - Saving and Investing

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine how money can work differently for every individual, identify various sources for saving and investing, and discuss most beneficial savings or investing plans for one's budget.
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Balancing a Budget

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate money management.  In this secondary mathematics lesson, students participate in a cost-of-living budget simulation in which they calculate monthly and yearly projected costs.  High schoolers investigate...
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Eating Away from Home

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students consider the implications of eating out. In this family budgeting lesson, students determine how to make better meal-budgeting choices as they play a game called "Let's Eat Out".
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Money Management

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students discuss the differences between needs and wants, practice budgeting resources and investigate the workings of a capitalist society, by creating a mock store.
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Planning a Party

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students, in groups, plan a theme party. They design their own invitations, budget materials needed and demonstrate good use of time, money, and resources.
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Invest in Yourself

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop the concept of finances. In this finance lesson, students watch a video called, "Moving Out." Students calculate the finances of a character in the video. Students experience various budget scenarios such as earning...
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Menu Math

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners follow the food pyramid to create a daily food budget. They research food prices online or in newspapers. They graph the amount of each food group included in their menus. They can also create a weekly food menu based on a fixed...
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Wealth of Wisdom

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Students determine what to do with money. In this personal finance lesson, students discuss budgeting, savings, and loans with their instructor. Students then participate in classroom activities that require them to participate in...
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Navigating Around the United States

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers calculate mileage and determine how long a trip take and what stops are necessary as they plan a vacation within the United States. They take money, food, lodging and gas into account for budgeting purposes.
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7 Ways for Gen Xers to Help Secure Their Retirement

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the concept of budgeting. In this budgeting lesson, students read an article about preparing for retirement. High schoolers create a budget of household expenses during retirement and create a savings plan for that...
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Cent Sense

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners identify money values. In this money instructional activity, students sort and group coins by value and investigate the cost of supplies needed for a snack. Learners prepare snacks for a snack sale.
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Spending

For Teachers 2nd
Student explore the value of money. In this addition and subtraction instructional activity, 2nd graders earn "money" for classroom jobs and spend it in the classroom. Students practice how to add prices and calculate change. This...
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Making a Grocery List

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Student examine the benefits of making grocery lists. In this family budgeting lesson, young scholars participate in an activity that requires them to create grocery lists for selected meals that families may share.
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Raising Resources

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students determine how much it will cost to participate in a service project. In this service project lesson, students develop a budget for participating in a service project while looking at the cost of the whole project. They make a...
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I'm Out of Here

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a travel budget. In this budget activity, students research vacation destinations. Working independently, students research destinations on the Internet and construct a budget for the vacation.  Resources provided.

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