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Shopping
Fifth graders simulate a shopping experience. Students are given a specified amount of money and they must spend it. Students choose five items they wish to purchase and determine if they can afford the items.
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Who's Going to the Convention?
Students practice planning budgets as they create a budget for ten employees of a company to attend a professional convention. They use the Internet, and spreadsheet software to complete their assignment.
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African Safari
Students create an Excel spreadsheet that show a budget for a trip to Africa to see wildlife. In small groups, they complete internet research to determine the countries and sites to visit then calculate the costs involved for the trip....
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Family Purchases
Learners generate a gift list for their family members making sure the costs remain under budget. They research the cost of items on the internet, calculate sales tax, and determine the total cost for all of the gifts.
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Painting a Mural
Students research create and design symbols to welcome students to their school. They present their idea to the class that includes a budget. The class work together to paint the mural.
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Play For Pay
Students practice various skills with manipulatives, such as counting correct money amounts to pay for manipulatives.
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Small Busines Schemes
High schoolers investigate a small business and its profitability. In pairs, as they research a business adventure, students consider the capital outlay, maintenance, office space, prices, insurance, and profit and loss statements. High...
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Comparison Shopping
Students practice developing budgets. In this financial awareness instructional activity, students read The Monster Money Book and list ways the characters saved money in the story. Students plan a budget and demonstrate how to look for...
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Food Needs, Food Wants
Students explore wants and needs. In this family budgeting activity, students play the Food Money game to help them distinguish between food wants and needs. Students discuss their impressions of the game and food budgets.
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Building Bridges
Students use glue, toothpicks, cardboard, marshmallows and more to build a structure. In this building lesson plan, students budget money to get their materials and make their building in teams.
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Comparison Food Shopping: Buying Groceries for Two People for One Week
Twelfth graders investigate how to develop a simple food budget for two using newpaper ads, the basic four food groups, and calorie counts.
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Food Shopping Tips
Twelfth graders explore different ways of shopping to try to save money. In this economics lesson, 12th graders participate in a game that explains various shopping tips. Students generate other shopping tips as a group to...
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The Bank of Good Habits
Students explore investing and saving. In this investing lesson, students identify their own financial goals and hurdles to success, calculate interest, and simulate banking and investing transactions. Incentive certificates, a quiz, and...
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Mathematics: Budgeting
Students develop a month long budget. They use problem solving skills to adjust their budgets for unforeseen expenses. They use checks to pay mock bills.
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Going Camping
Students explore the concept of budgeting. In this budgeting lesson, students pretend to have $120 to spend on camping gear for a camping trip. Students decide which items are absolutely necessary. Students calculate the total amount...
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Toothpick Bridges
Students study the techniques of building a bridge. They explore different type of bridges and then plan and build a bridge to specified instructions. Students draw plans, keep a budget, and prepare balance sheets during their bridge...
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Savings and Consumption
Students engage in a study that is focused upon the practice of how financial savings is accumulated and spent. This is based upon the rate of consumption with spending. The instructional activity helps students to create a working...
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Japan's Economic Miracle
Young scholars engage in a lesson that discusses the economy of Japan. They conduct research using budgets found on the internet. Then they have group discussions of how the government gets its money for spending.
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Redistributing Utah's Tax Resources: Burdens and Benefits
High schoolers divide into three groups to investigate the use of community resources. The groups are given a budget and decide which services are most important by conducting discussions. They put the arguments for the spending in...
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Spending Public Money
Young scholars work in small groups. They imagine that they are the council committee. Students choose from a list of projects to be funded. They have one hundred thousand dollars to spend and they have to spend the money on a project...
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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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Party Time
Students design a budget to plan for a class party. In this problem solving lesson, students devise a budget with a limit of fifty dollars for a class party. Students discuss and estimate the amount of money needed for food and decorations.
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Spending
Learners 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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Bright Ideas for Bringing up Smart Savers
Students explore the concept of saving money. In this saving money lesson plan, students read an article about saving money. Students discuss ways to save money and what makes it difficult to save money. Students compare prices of products.
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