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The Credit Safari

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How cool, an interactive personal finance game! Young consumers play a real-life scenario game to practice making credit decisions. They play the game then discuss good and bad credit choices. The scenarios revolve around the use of a...
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it's Lonely At The Top

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the differnences between food producers in food webs and food consumers in food chains. Behavioral choices of primary and secondary consumers such as herbivores, vegetarians, carnivors, and omnivors are analyzed.
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Agriculture in the Classroom

Making Half MyPlate Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Establish healthy eating habits with a lesson focused around MyPlate's food recommendations and the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. Through class discussion and worksheet completion, scholars discuss the best choices of foods...
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Smart Consumers, Smart Choices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students see what it means to be a smart consumer by engaging in a level-headed analysis of budget, opportunity costs and self-regulation. They compare prices within a service field, and weigh the choices of spending money on that item.
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Making Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
In this well-designed nutritional activity, learners are given the opportunity to create their own daily food record, compare their nutrient with minimimun requirements, and think critically about their own food choices. Materials and...
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To Give In or Not To Give In -- That Is The Question!

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders discover how to make the best decisions given the information at hand. In groups, they role-play different roles in scenerios to help them deal with peer pressure. To end the lesson, they discuss why it is so hard for...
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Social Media Toolbox

Ethical Decision Making

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
When faced with a dilemma, how do journalists decide how much news to use? Social media scholars explore the philosophies of ethical resolution in the first of a 16-part Social Media Toolbox series. Partnered pupils use a Potter Box to...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

The Hope to Cope: Coping Skills

For Teachers 6th
Making decisions can be stressful, even for sixth graders. And even students this young have developed coping skills, some positive and some negative, to help them deal with stress. Class members are asked to identify several of their...
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Fifth Grade Social Studies Multiple Choice Practice

For Teachers 5th
In this grade 5 social studies worksheet, 5th graders complete a set of 17 multiple choice questions about a variety of topics. An answer key is included.
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Federal Reserve Bank

Wants on a Continuum

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
You can't always get what you want, but you might just be able to teach your class about wants and choices. This plan leads pupils through a discussion and closes with a worksheet and assessment.
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Visa

Consumer Awareness

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Help your pupils become wise consumers and avoid becoming targets for consumer scams and fraud. Here you'll find a PowerPoint presentation, instructional guidelines, worksheets, and suggested activities for developing shopper strategies...
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Federal Trade Commission

A Smarter Consumer

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
How can understanding advertisements make people better consumers? With the fourth and final instructional activity from the Admongo series on advertising, scholars reflect on some of the questions they may ask about an ad before making...
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STAR Deputies

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders engage in a lesson plan that is about the sharing of following rules to follow the law. They concentrate on the making of safe choices. Students use the examples to have class discussion. They also role play scenarios of...
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Visa

Money Responsibility

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Introduce young learners to the important life skill of responsibly managing money and recording how much they spend and save. 
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Visa

Using Credit Wisely

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Receiving credit can be both a benefit and a curse. Prepare your learners to make wise credit choices by studying how credit influences credit scores, identifying the different components of credit cards, and exploring major consumer...
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The Soviet Choice For Growth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine five major events in Soviet History to introduce the concept of opportunity cost. They identify considered alternatives at the time of decision and examine benefits and cost. They apply these ideas to a typical school day.
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Making Effective Decisions

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine decision-making styles. In this self-awareness lesson plan, students work through 3 exercises examining the different styles of decision-making, how barriers effect decision-making. The lesson plan concludes with...
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Do I Need Insurance?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Explore the different types, costs, and coverage of insurance. High schoolers compare their family's health care to their income, compare the cost of health insurance to their expected future income, and make a choice about what type of...
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Learning to Give

Five Thousand Dollars!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How does consumerism affect global poverty? Upper graders find out about cost benefit, wants and needs, and making good consumer choices as they explore this global topic. They role-play an impulse spending experience and work through...
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Obesity and Making Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers K - 1st
Students determine healthy snack choices for themselves.  In this eating habits lesson, students discuss snacks they regularly consume.  Students cut and paste pictures of snacks that they think are good selections.  
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Making Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work with a partner to write a play, story or ad that teaches about our choices as consumers. Students focus on educating people about how food choices make a difference in their lives.
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Restaurant math

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use Microsoft Publisher program to create a restaurant menu. Using that menu, other students will use estimation skills to decide on multiple combinations of meals they could make with the money they are given.
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Federal Reserve Bank

Insurance Inventory

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Do you have enough insurance? Pupils may be surprised to learn how much their possessions are worth. This activity asks them to create an inclusive list and make a comparison to their insurance coverage. According to the statistics, most...
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Needs and Wants

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students demonstrate responsible consumer choices. In this social studies lesson plan, students read The Lorax and discuss wants and needs. Students discuss how to save natural resources by making informed consumer choices.