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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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Balancing a Budget
Learners investigate money management. For this secondary mathematics lesson, students participate in a cost-of-living budget simulation in which they calculate monthly and yearly projected costs. Learners investigate housing...
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Check It Out
Students discuss the many processes involved with personal banking. They create their own budget based on their career choices. They also practice balancing a checkbook.
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Buying Power
Students use a magazine article/picture to explain consumer spending and discuss the key elements that influence consumer spending.
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Choice, Opportunity, Cost and Decisions
Students discuss the definition of scarcity and tradeoffs, and the differences between choice and cost. They create budgets and must provide tradeoffs for some of their choices.
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A Computer Model For a Recycling Center
Learners develop a working model computer program of a recycling center addressing the material management, work schedules and business finances of running the recycling center.
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The Missing Girls of India
High schoolers study current news articles for the continuing practice of female infanticide in India. They discuss the devaluation of females in this country. Students brainstorm and evaluate solutions to this problem. High schoolers...
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How To Estabish And Use Credit
Students investigate how to establish and use credit. They research the application and use process and the effects upon personal finance when using credit. The qualifying indicators are looked at determined whether they are fair during...
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Alternative Energy Resources
In this alternative energy resources worksheet, students read and describe the advantages to using tidal power. Then they identify and list some of the disadvantages to using tidal power as mentioned in the brief excerpt read. Students...
Centennial College
Break-Even Analysis Worksheet
In this business worksheet, learners compute various word problems given the fixed and variable costs involved. Then they identify from a list which are variable and which are fixed costs. Students also describe the difference among a...
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ESL First Certificate/Advanced- Phrasal Verb Usage of the Word "Break" With Prepositions
For this ESL phrasal verbs worksheet, students use prepositions with the verb "break" to fill in 10 blanks. They use prepositions that are included in a word bank on the page.
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My Springtime Coloring Book
In this springtime coloring worksheet, students create a book of springtime pictures by coloring each picture and putting them together in a book. There are 6 pictures for students to color.
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Calculating The Poverty Line
Learners examine the poverty line. In this poverty line lesson, students discover what the poverty line is and how the U.S. government determines it. Learners calculate alternative poverty lines and examine their implications.
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Making Choices
Students determine that limited resources require choices. They study the basic concept of a budget and use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division (with whole numbers, fractions, decimals and/or percents, mixed numbers) to...
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The Artist as Entrepreneur: Is this a Hobby or a Business?
Young scholars discover the IRS codes and criteria for establishing their art activity as a business rather than a hobby. They develop ways to demonstrate that their art activity is actually a business venture as classified by the IRS.
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A Money Plan
Learners discuss what a budget is and its purpose. They create a draft of a simple budget that they could possible use. They discuss their trade-offs when they choose to follow a budget.
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Doctor's Dilemma: Advocacy for Whom?
Students investigate why doctors feel torn between patients and insurance companies. They examine the health care system and how it affects patients. They discuss one's ability to afford health insurance as well.
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Break-Even Analysis Worksheet
In this analysis worksheet, students solve accounting problems when provided with variables to be used in computations. Using data provided, students must answer questions showing they understand key terms such as fixed and variable costs.
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Under the Bed or in the Bank?
Young scholars explore personal finance. In this consumer /financial mathematics lesson, students compare interest rates as they explore savings.
Internal Revenue Service
Irs: Tax Credit for Child and Dependent Care Expenses Lesson Plan
This lesson plan help learners understand the tax credit for child and dependent care expenses.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Plan Your Spending
This site presents the budgeting process through a series of steps. This first page describes the first step, creating a spending plan of estimated expenses. This page also has a link to a downloadable spending plan that requires Acrobat...
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Tracking Income and Benefits
Using a case study about an urban family, students calculate monthly net income and explore how irregular income may make it challenging to manage monthly expenses.
Wolters Kluwer
Business Owner's Toolkit: Income Statement (Profit and Loss) Worksheet
This resource contains a brief description of what an income statement is and how it can benefit your business. Download an income statement template to use for your own business.
Internal Revenue Service
Irs: Your First Job Lesson Plan
This lesson plan will help young scholars understand that they are responsible for paying income taxes through withholding as they earn income and that it is important that they keep accurate records of their earnings and expenses.