Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Money Management
This month-long experience educates learners in differentiating between needs and wants, how to budget resources, and to gain an understanding of the workings of a capitalist society.
Practical Money Skills
Visa: Practical Money Skills: Lesson Plans for Grades 7 8
Fourteen financial literacy lesson plans for middle school students cover topics such as budgeting, living on your own, the influence of advertising, and saving and investing.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 1: Money Matters
The process of earning money is the cornerstone of financial literacy. In this lesson, students will identify key terms associated with earning money, explore ideas for earning money now, and evaluate various career options as sources of...
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Lessons: College
Ten financial literacy lesson plans allow college students to build on their skills and cover topics such as budgeting, living on your own, managing credit cards, cars and loans, and saving and investing.
University of Missouri
University of Missouri: Wise Pockets: Berenstain Bears' Trouble With Money
Using a Berenstain Bears' book, learners are introduced to concepts such as spending, goods, services, income, saving, and interest. Lesson is detailed and has good activities. Includes questions about the story that teach students about...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Becoming a Wise Consumer: Comparison Shopping
In this introductory lesson to money management for teens, young scholars will use everyday math skills to comparison shop a variety of products. Students will learn several ways to save money, including using store discounts, coupons,...
Other
Money Management International: The Berenstain Bears' Trouble With Money
A lesson plan featuring the Berenstain Bears that introduces the concepts of spending, goods, services, income, saving, and interest.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Avoiding Debt
Students read a short story and a handout to learn about excessive debt and ways to avoid or reduce debt.
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.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A sse.b.4: A Lifetime of Savings
The purpose of this instructional task is to give young scholars an opportunity to construct and find the value of a geometric series in a financial literacy context. Aligns with A-SSE.B.4.
Federal Reserve Bank
Katrina's Classroom: Teaching Money Skills for Life
Students will participate in Katrina's Classroom curriculum provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The lesson emphasizes the importance of being prepared for a financial emergency. This is a Commerce and Information Technology...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Help How Do I Pay for My College Education?
This lesson is designed to guide students through the process of searching for financial aid information by utilizing technology. This lesson contains a financial aid component.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Liquidity for Success
This lesson will input values to calculate financial ratios and intepret the information derived from the calculations. This is a Commerce and Information Technology lesson plan.
James Madison University
James Madison University: Online Elementary Economics Lessons
James Madison University has developed a variety of online economic lessons for elementary students. Explore basic economic and financial concepts.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Saving Money 2
The purpose of this task is for students to relate addition and subtraction problems to money and to situations and goals related to saving money. A problem is given that will contain multiple solutions, this allows students to think...
Save And Invest
Finra Investor Education Foundation: The Emergency Fund
This lesson plan teaches students the importance of being financially prepared for unexpected expenses.
Save And Invest
Finra Investor Education Foundation: Debt Elimination
This lesson plan offers different strategies for eliminating debt and strengthening one's financial position and cash flow.
Other
Actuarial Foundation: Building Your Future: Financing [Pdf]
In book 2 from the Building Your Future series, students and teachers get resources and practice on how financing works, such as getting loans and buying insurance.
Other
Actuarial Foundation: Building Your Future: Investing [Pdf]
In book 3 of the Building Your Future series, students and teachers work on the concept of investing, including stock and bonds, mutual funds, risk and diversification, and inflation, through a combination of information and practice.
Other
Actuarial Foundation: Building Your Future: Succeeding [Pdf]
Through information, examples, and practice, students learn about the costs and advantages of post-secondary education, how to understand the potential earnings and benefits of a job, how to make a budget, and why it is important to...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Banks & Credit Unions (Part I)
Young scholars learn about banks and credit unions, identifying similarities and differences between the two types of financial institution. They also evaluate a local bank and credit union to determine which one would be better suited...
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Cfpb: Contrasting Long Term and Short Term Savings Goals
Students learn the difference between short-term and long-term savings goals and apply their knowledge in an exercise-oriented game.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Stewart Resources Centre: Consumer Wise [Pdf]
A tenth-grade math unit, developed in 1993 by a Saskatchewan teacher, on budgeting.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I Owe, I Owe, So Off to Work I Go!
Students often attend college and are faced with the mounting debt incurred from student loans. This lesson plan will guide through calculating repayment for students loans, preparing a monthly budget, and researching options for...