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'I'm Just Totally Lost' About Finances
Explore the concept of financial planning with your class. High schoolers read an article about planning for the financial future and discuss what steps the family in the article took to be financially sound. They consider where they...
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How to Achieve Your Financial Goals
Young scholars explore economics by creating a budget. In this financial goal setting lesson, students investigate their use of time by completing a worksheet. Young scholars identify financial goals they would like to achieve in the...
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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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Family Forms and Family Life Cycle
There are so many different types of families, and each family functions in a different way. Discover the different roles, responsibilities, and relationships that develop in different family types. The lesson provides you with five...
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Family Financial Profile
Learners investigate the cost of living. In this financial awareness lesson, students play a game to simulate various family situations and their incomes. Learners choose activity cards and record information on their family profile...
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Money Management Part III: Savings Accounts and Cash vs. Credit
Help your class understand the importance of saving and managing their money. Here is part three to a unit on credit, cash, and savings. Learners discuss savings accounts and the idea that a budget plan can help them avoid costly credit...
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Smooth Sailing: Exploring Insurance and Estate Planning
While purchasing insurance and estate planning may seem like a rather irrelevant topic for high school young scholars, introducing this concept now can help your learners develop a solid foundation of financial literacy that...
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Family Faces a Real Struggle In Saving Money For College
Explore the concept of savings with your high schoolers. They read an article about saving money for retirement and as a way to pay for college. They discuss the financial needs of the family in the article in regards to saving for...
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We Don't Waste Money, So Where Does It All Go?
Students explore the concept of financial planning. In this financial planning lesson, students read an article about different families' financial plans. Students select 10 stocks to monitor over the next four weeks.
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Saving and Investing
Impress upon your young adults the importance of saving and investing, and give them a foundational vocabulary from which they can continue to build their financial literacy. This lesson plan covers short- and long-term budget goals,...
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Planning to Parent: Am I Qualified?
In small groups, teens take on different roles to discuss the qualifications for parenthood. An instruction sheet for group discussion is provided, as well as homework worksheets. Throughout these exercises, young adults take the time to...
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Beatrice’s Goat: A Lesson on Savings Goals
Youngsters learn the meaning of saving and how to reach savings goals by first reading a story of a young Ugandan girl who is gifted a goat, and then discovering the opportunity costs of savings decisions made by her and her family.
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The Best Vacation Ever
Learners research various vacation destinations and the costs of travel. In this vacation planning lesson, students obtain information for various purposes, research sites, document their findings, learn about geographical regions, and...
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Money Management-Grocery Shopping for a Family Profile
Young scholars investigate a family profile and design a menu plan. In this consumer science instructional activity, students plan and prepare a weekly menu based on a family profile.
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How Would You Feel? The Bravery of Civil Disobedience
As part of their study of the US Civil Rights Movement and the Montgomery bus boycott, class members read Dr. Martin Luther King's "Integrated Bus Suggestions." They then craft a short story about the first week of Montgomery...
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The Art of Budgeting
Students create a plan to achieve personal and financial goals. In this budgeting goals lesson, students identify their sources of income and discuss being financially independent. Students record their monthly expenditures and present a...
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Values Auction
Young scholars assess what they value and participate in a class auction. In this financial values lesson, students complete a budget activity and use play money to participate in an auction. Young scholars complete a related worksheet...
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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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Living on a Fixed Income
Students examine living on a fixed income. In this financial analysis lesson, students discuss living on a fixed income and discuss wants and needs. Students research money saving tips and create a PowerPoint about the topic. Students...
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Merchant Family Role Play
Pupils address their assumptions about families in the 1500s. They compare and constrast a medevil and modern family. They role-play an arranged marriage in class. They practice using new vocabulary as well.
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Take Time to Save Now
Students brainstorm reasons to save money, investigate impact of saving regularly using interactive, on-line calculators, explain how compounding interest affects savings, explore different strategies for saving money, and write personal...
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Paying Off Student Loans
High schoolers plan financing postsecondary education and explain how loan repayments work. They build a spreadsheet, listing the categories of expenses in the left hand column.
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"A Gift for Mama," by Esther Hautzig
Students read a story about a girl named Sara. Sara decides to buy a gift for Mother's Day. They create booklets to illustrate Sara's short-term savings goal and their own short-term savings goal.
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Lesson 3: Making a Living
Students, in groups, create hypothetical financial plans for a colonial Maine family living on the frontier.