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Reality Store: How to Plan a Budget, Pay Bills, and Manage Your Money

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students plan a budget and pay bills when they visit the "Reality Store," a series of classroom studying stations. The use of paying bills and running a class store is used to help students grasp the concept of business.
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How Does the Earth's Energy Budget Relate to Polar Ice?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners use satellite data to see how radiation budget relates to the ice that is present in the North.  In this energy lesson students correlate data to see a relationship. 
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Radiation Budget Lesson: Exploring Albedo

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars experiment with sunlight and temperature. They study the definition of albedo, or the percentage of incoming sunlight that is reflected, rather than absorbed.
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Economics: Actions of Government

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the susceptibility of legislators to agricultural lobbyists to support subsidy programs. In small groups, they role-play as members of interest groups that might be affected by inflation.
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Traveling in Style

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students choose a travel destination in another culture, create a list of items needed, obtain prices, and research the climate and traditional clothing in the culture. They create an imaginary travel budgets--with which they calculate...
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We're Spending Too Much Money

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students 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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Building Tolerance for Poverty in Math

For Teachers 6th
Students explore approximate and exact solutions. In this interdisciplinary lesson, 6th graders will be placed in 'family groups' to create a budget that is subject to random events as chosen from the 'things happen' box. This lesson...
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Grant Proposals (Or Give Me the Money!)

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
To an outsider, it may seem like college research programs have a lot of money, but there's a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes to secure the funds. A handout on grant proposals, part of a series on specific writing assignments,...
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PricewaterhouseCoopers

Planning and Money Management: Financial Plan

For Teachers 9th - 12th
More planning goes into a budget than a high schooler thinks. Here, they learn about the expected expenses and incomes, along with outside factors such as natural disasters. Learners prepare their own budget and adjust it based on...
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PwC Financial Literacy

Planning and Money Management: Spending and Saving

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Financial literacy is such an important, and often-overlooked, skill to teach our young people. Here is a terrific instructional activity which has pupils explore how to come up with a personal budget. They consider income, saving,...
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"Golden" Years?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The Golden Years? Upper graders may think retirement is a long way off, but in life everything is just around the corner. They consider what it means to retire and the current trend of parents working for their Students. They research...
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Savers & Borrowers: Financial Markets in the United States

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Investigate the current financial market and have your class explore savings, borrowing, financial markets, mutual funds, and the stock market. This four-part instructional activity is designed to help students become knowledgeable and...
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Life on the Run: A Budget for Claudia and Jamie

For Students 5th - 8th
In this budget worksheet, students create a budget for 2 girls that are trying to escape and use their allowances as the income they have. Students create a budget based on their income and expenses. They also answer 7 short answer...
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Top Budget-Friendly Ways to Include Interactive Technology in the Classroom

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Inspire student achievement and participation with multimedia activities.
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Managing Your Energy Budget

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine their ecological footprint. In this technology based lesson, students calculate patterns of consumption and suggest ways to decrease their resource usage. This lesson includes several multi-media resources, videos, and...
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Calculating the Cost of Living

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Bring Consumer Mathematics and Economics to life with this instructional activity, where learners investigate personal finance and budgeting. They use the newspaper’s classified section to determine a future job and potential earnings...
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Cutting Athletics = Cutting Scholarship Chances

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify athletic programs to be cut from school district budget, find out how many students have received college athletic scholarships in past, and interview students and coaches to find out how scholarship search is going if...
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The Ultimate Road Trip

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders experience and practice real-world geography, science and math as they imagine planning out the ultimate road trip. They set goals and maintain a daily budget as they are given a set of rules as they plan their road trip...
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Council for Economic Education

You Can BANK on This! (Part 2)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is part two in a four-part instructional activity on banking and personal finance. In this instructional activity, learners analyze whether or not they have made a good purchase, then discuss how to make an informed decision about a...
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Buying New Stuff

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young spenders take a look at the best ways to save and spend money. This type of financial education is lacking in schools, so implementing this lesson plan would be of great value to your students. Things like bank checking account...
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EU Budget

For Students 9th - 12th
In this European Union (EU) worksheet, students respond to 8 short answer and 5 fill in the blank questions about EU budgeting practices.
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Budgeting and Travel

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners plan a trip to the Olympics.  In this middle school mathematics instructional activity, students are given a worksheet describing the cost of necessities for their trip.  Learners are given a balance and must purchase...
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Designing a Theme Park on a Budget

For Students 5th - 6th
In this math worksheet, student use problem solving skills to plan and design a futuristic theme park on a budget. Students draw the park on graph paper and set prices for admission and budget for all ongoing costs. This page is from the...
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Money Math: Lessons for Life

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
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...