High schoolers learn how a business starts and finds financial independence. In this lesson, students learn the struggle of financial management, the costs of running a business and how to keep a budget.

Young scholars develop a budget spreadsheet to manage finances for their business.  In this finance lesson, students use a spreadsheet program to create a budget with credit and debit columns.  There are step-by-step directions...

Students watch a Biz Kidz video about money, learn what they can do with money, and fill out worksheets on what they learn. Students learn about spending, saving, donating, and investing.

Students participate in a role play where they see how a bank works and how interest is paid by having money in the bank. In this bank lesson plan, students operate a bank and learn about saving, accounts, deposits, withdrawals,...

Students develop the concept of finances. In this finance lesson, students watch a video called, "Moving Out." Students calculate the finances of a character in the video. Students experience various budget scenarios such as earning...

Learners identify money values. In this money lesson, students sort and group coins by value and investigate the cost of supplies needed for a snack. Learners prepare snacks for a snack sale.

Young scholars learn about budgeting, saving, dept, financial management, opportunity cost, and self-regulation. In this financial management lesson, students apply their knowledge of finance components and create their own web based...

Students explore economics by creating a budget. In this financial goal setting lesson plan, students investigate their use of time by completing a worksheet. Students identify financial goals they would like to achieve in the next...

Learners will explore good and services, income and saving listening to the story The B. Bears Trouble With Money.  In this early economic lesson, students discuss what it means to earn money doing services and save money to...

Young scholars explore the food pyramid and how to eat a healthy diet.  In this nutrition instructional activity, students use pictures to make charts of food from the different food groups, record the food they eat throughout the...

Students analyze photographic images and use cameras to document their own life.  In this analyzing photography lesson, students apply formal analysis techniques to images, then create a documentary of photographic images with...

Students study credit and interest in a novel and consumer math activity. In this credit lesson, students read the book Bingo Brown and the Language of Love. Students discuss the book and the ideas of credit, interest, and loans....

Students use the internet to gather information on saving money. They describe the history of money and the responsibilities of the United States Mint. They list their own personal goals and keep a journal as they operate a lemonade...

Students research a subject about biotechnology and do a project or a writing assignment on it. They can pick from a possible eighteen different projects and five different writing projects.

Students develop an understanding of how federal revenues are gained by taxes. This foundation enable students to decipher changes in federal tax policy. Groups of students study different types of taxes and prepare presentations on each...

Students learn that the price of an item is defined by its supply and demand. In this lesson students graph the relationship between demand and supply of various products, students also consider hidden costs.

Fourth graders locate Antarctica and recognize it as the setting of Mr. Popper's Penguins. In this Mr. Popper's Penguins instructional activity, 4th graders understand the financial decisions made by Mr. Popper. Students discuss wise...

Students redesign specific areas of their school using interior design techniques, magazine ideas, and cooperative learning groups in this middle and high school level activity. Emphasis is on examining the career opportunities in...