Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Making Spending Decisions
Students practice a commonly used decision-making model called PACED to help make spending decisions.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Bouncing Ball Budgets
Through an interactive game, students share spending decisions they've made in the past and start to think about their spending habits in new ways.
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...
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission: You Are Here
In this interactive mall environment, students learn how to make smart decisions as consumers. Whether shopping for clothes, choosing the best food deal, searching for a job or buying a cellphone, students will learn how to recognize...
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Creating a Buying Plan
Students practice creating a buying plan and apply this strategy to provide buying advice to others.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Reflecting on Needs Versus Wants
By thinking about their own expenses, students explore how differentiating between needs and wants can inform daily financial decisions and rules to live by.
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission: Prepaid Phone Cards
This article might help students avoid the problems often associated with prepaid phone cards.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: The Expenditure and Tax Multipliers
In this lesson summary we cover the key takeaways and terminology related to spending multipliers and tax multipliers. Topics include how to calculate the expenditure multiplier and the tax multiplier.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Shopping
Get tips for buying everything from laundry detergent to your dream home.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Do I Look Like I'm Made of Money?
One of the most common replies given by parents when their children ask for money is "Do I look like I'm made of Money?" This lesson is designed to educate learners about the need for money as a generally accepted medium of exchange. The...
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.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Why Use Money? Getting What We Need
Learners will compare and contrast different methods of attaining the everyday items they need. Using the Akan people of Africa as an example of bartering, students will understand three different ways of paying for goods. Discussion...