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Plan a Vacation
Challenge scholars to plan a vacation with a $5,000 budget. Learners review costs of transportation, meals, and entertainment while considering the number of people and destination. Worksheets provide information and well-organized...
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Module: Self-Awareness
When considering future careers, lifestyle priorities are a big factor. Learners consider their own goals as they explore professional options. Begin with a discussion about what comprises a lifestyle, encouraging kids to think about...
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Making Choices
Students solve word problems relating to economic choices. In this economic choices instructional activity, students discuss the importance of budgeting and how to save money. Students complete a economic choices worksheet.
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Banking for Your Future
Young scholars get a handle on their own personal finances. They discover how banks work, how to plan and stick to a budget, and other helpful tips on managing money. They study the Federal Reserve System, which oversees the nation's banks.
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Estimating Expenses
In this estimation worksheet, students estimate expenses of different items by solving word problems. Students estimate expenses for 5 problems.
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Practical Problems Involving Decimals
After discussing decimals and "going shopping" in the classroom, young mathematicians are given four practical word problems that require them to estimate their answers, given specific information. The highlight of the lesson is having...
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Final Analysis
In this consumer mathematics worksheet, students calculate the total amount of money they earned during a project given. Then they transfer the expenses from each month to find their totals. Students also calculate to find their final...
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The Lemonade Stand
Students play The Lemonade Stand game online to explore business world; students make decisions about cost, profit, and advertising, and complete worksheet answering questions about choices they made as a producer.
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My World Wide Tour of Spanish Speaking Countries
Students organize a two week travel plan through Spanish speaking countries all over the world. plan their flight schedules, accommodations, and tours of cultural events. Students compute the total cost of their trip.
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Author’s Perspective
Gradually build understanding of author's point of view through a scaffolded set of exercises. Moving from direct instruction, to collaborative work, and eventually to independent practice, these steps will assist your class in grasping...
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"Tarantula Shoes," by Tom Birdseye
Students read a book and explore spending, saving, opportunity cost, and trade-offs. They keep a diary of expenses to track their spending and examine their opportunity costs.
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The Cost of Life
Students research the salary for a career of interest. They consider what kind of lifestyle that career would provide and graph their information for comparison.
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Wealth of Wisdom
Students determine what to do with money. In this personal finance lesson, students discuss budgeting, savings, and loans with their instructor. Students then participate in classroom activities that require them to participate in...
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Summer Trip
Seventh graders utilize the Internet for use of search engines to plan a trip. They research and develop expenses for a trip and divide and round the cost of things to the nearest tenth.
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"The Leaves in October", by Karen Ackerman
Students read a story about a family living in a shelter. They explore different places to save their money and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
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Balance the Budget
Middle schoolers make their own decisions over how central government should spend the money they get from taxing the public. They discuss where they could get more money from and how does spending and taxation outlined in the budget...
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Best Buys
In this mathematics activity, students use the information provided in each statement to solve each problem. They include all of their calculations.
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List of Idioms and Phrases
Good idioms are a dime a dozen. A 19-page list is only a drop in the bucket when it comes to figurative language and idiomatic phrases. So don't get a chip on your shoulder and dive in; learning what idioms really mean is a piece of cake!
Breaking News English
More People to Stick to New Year's Resolutions
What makes a good New Year's resolution? Practice goal-setting and reading comprehension with a set of language arts activities. English learners work on cloze passages, synonym matches, interviewing exercises, and comprehension...
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Breaking News English: Credit Crunch Making Britons Ill
For this English worksheet, learners read "Credit Crunch Making Britons Ill," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Marriage and Financial Goals, Budgeting Strategies
There is no more useful life skill to learn than budgeting and setting financial goals. It's math that is used by every person, everyday. Learners examine the responsibilities and costs involved in family economics. Through a series of...
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Tax Jeopardy
Create a glossary of tax-related vocabulary and clip New York Times articles that present tax procedure in action, in preparation for participating in a tax quiz bowl. Young economists explore allegations that "Survivor" Richard Hatch...
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The Art of Budgeting
Class members learn how to set up and maintain a personal budget through discussion, financial planning worksheets, and a brief PowerPoint presentation.
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