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Insurance Quotes
You're in high school and you just got the coolest car ever! But, now you need to start thinking about car insurance. Luckily, your teacher prepared you by engaging you in a life skills lesson like this one. The class actually calls...
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FILLING EMPTY POCKETS: BORROWING, LOANS AND CREDIT.
Students learn that maintaining financial security takes a good math understanding. In this lesson, students apply mathematical formulas to make important financial decisions like getting the right loan to buy a house, decide which...
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Money Smart Choices
Students make choices regarding money management. In this personal finance lesson, students explore budgets, incomes, and expenses as they learn vocabulary regarding personal finance and consider how to create personal budgets.
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Wealth of Wisdom
Learners determine what to do with money. In this personal finance instructional activity, students discuss budgeting, savings, and loans with their instructor. Learners then participate in classroom activities that require them to...
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Micro Economics - Personal Budgeting
Learners explore the real world as it relates to money and how people use it. In this money management lesson, students jump into the real world as they role play with money through spending, saving, being married, single, having...
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The Art of Budgeting
Students create a plan to achieve personal and financial goals. In this budgeting goals lesson, students identify their sources of income and discuss being financially independent. Students record their monthly expenditures and present a...
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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. For 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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Learning to Spend, Learning to Give
Students explore the concept of personal finances. In this personal finances instructional activity, students identify their income and expenses. Students create a budget for their spending, saving, investing, and donating habits....
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Be Independent / Life Management Skills
Living independently is about more than managing money. Learn how to manage time, balance responsibilities, and calculate overtime and income with a set of activities about life management skills.
PwC Financial Literacy
Finanacial Responsibility and Decision Making: Personal Information and Identity Theft
Elementary schoolers look into the very real, and scary, practice of identity theft. They discover the main techniques used by people who steal other people's identity. Learners produce an identity theft tip sheet and share their tips...
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Budgeting-It Is For Everyone
Pupils complete a simulation designed to show them the importance of budgeting and avoiding living paycheck to paycheck.
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"Real Life" Budgeting Project
Middle schoolers experience what it is like to be a responsible citizen through a monthly budget through using a variety of research skills.
They apply collected data in a decision making exercise and
present the final product in a...
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Budgeting 101
Students identify various sources of income and discern between needs and wants as they also learn to create a personal budget. In this personal budget lesson, student understand financial scenarios as they relate to different ways...
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We're Spending Too Much Money
Learners discuss the reasons for having a budget. They create their own personal budget and explain how the bartering system can work for some items today.
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Learning to Spend, Learning to Give
Students create a monthly budget. In this finances lesson plan, students learn the terms budget, income and expenses. Students create a monthly spending plan and keep track of what they make and spend for the next 30 days. When...
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The REAL Cost of College
Students explore the cost of college and how to plan and save. In this money management lesson students do research on the cost of college, learn about making financial choices, earning, spending, saving, investing and how they apply to...
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The Business of Interest
Students learn about finance and money management and use math to solve problems, communicate, and explore real life situations as they deal with banks. In this financial management lesson, students apply their math skills to real life...
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Invest In Yourself
Students learn about budgeting, saving, dept, financial management, opportunity cost, and self-regulation. In this financial management lesson, students apply their knowledge of finance components and create their own web based plan...
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Money Math: Lessons for Life
Students develop a budget for a college student using all of the influences that the student would have. In this budgeting lesson plan, students use real life examples to create a budget spreadsheet. Students read and study...
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Invest in Yourself
Young scholars develop the concept of finances. In this finance instructional activity, students watch a video called, "Moving Out." Young scholars calculate the finances of a character in the video. Students experience various budget...
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Reality Check
Fourth graders practice living on a budget. They must plan for rent, utilities, and food and determine if they can afford the luxuries of a phone, car, gas, movies, clothes, etc., using a newspaper to gather their information.
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The Berenstain Bears Trouble with Money
Students will explore good and services, income and saving listening to the story The B. Bears Trouble With Money. In this early economic lesson, students discuss what it means to earn money doing services and save money to...
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Grocery Shopping and Budgeting
Ninth graders establish a food budget based on individual needs and resources. They evaluate grocery stores and establish guidelines for purchasing specific foods.