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Cutting Expenses
Students explore budgeting. In this finance and math lesson, students brainstorm ways in which households could save money. Students view websites that give cost reducing ideas. Students complete an expense comparison chart and use the...
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Building the Aggregate Expenditures Model
A good accompaniment to an economics lesson, this presentation explores the aggregate expenditures model, detailing the relationship between consumption and saving using graphs and charts. Additional information includes investments and...
Practical Money Skills
Living on Your Own
Independent living can be fun, but also overwhelming if you don't know how to budget your income and expenses. Go over the ways that kids can manage their money as they take a huge step into adulthood with a project-based lesson about...
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Planning A Household Budget
Students experience real life by utilizing math skills to plan a household budget and enhance their financial planning skills.
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Home, House and Household Exercise
In this word choice worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 18 sentences with the word that will best complete the thought: home, house, or household.
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The Money Game
Eleventh graders investigate the amount of money that families use throughout the year. In this economic and math lesson, 11th graders participate in a money bingo game. Students analyze the needs and wants for a household.
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7 Ways for Gen Xers to Help Secure Their Retirement
Students explore the concept of budgeting. For this budgeting lesson, students read an article about preparing for retirement. Students create a budget of household expenses during retirement and create a savings plan for that budget.
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Budgeting Makes a Difference!
Students develop a budget for either a single parent, or a household with two adults and a child. They develop a list of expenses, and create a PowerPoint presentation.
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The Expenditure Sheet
Students differentiate between expenditure and income. In this algebra lesson, students create a spreadsheet labeling the date, item and amount as they track their expenses. They format the cells of the spreadsheet to do all the...
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Consumer Economics: Building a Budget
I think most of us adults could use a tip or two on how to budget our personal finances. Pass on some valuable knowledge to your pupils as they move into the real world. The presentation provides three easy steps to creating a personal...
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Desperation: The Great Depression
Students examined the feelings of hopelessness that can result from losing
their income, much like one-third of Americans experienced during the Depression in a small group lesson of a mock household. Students create a household budget...
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Choosing My Lifestyle
How much does it cost to live the life your dream life? Scholars explore the pitfalls of personal finance through planning, discussion, and research. The first lesson in a five-part series tasks individuals with determining an...
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Balancing a Budget
Students calculate living expenses for a non-traditional career choice. They examine interest, balancing a checkbook, and financing cars and homes.
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Water Pollution
Fifth graders observe and record what happens when household products are added to a tank of water to depict water pollution. They brainstorm ideas of how to clean the contaminate out of the water before watching demonstrations of...
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The Art of Budgeting
Students create a plan to achieve personal and financial goals. In this budgeting goals activity, students identify their sources of income and discuss being financially independent. Students record their monthly expenditures and present...
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Family Income
Students examine income statistics from the 2001 Census for four types of families in Canada. They appreciate the cost of running a household and the importance of tailoring expenses to match income.
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Closed Economy Expenditure Model Test
In this economics worksheet, students answer questions relating to consumption, investment, and expenditures in a model of a closed economy. The eight page worksheet contains forty multiple choice questions. Answers are not included.
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Budgeting for the Future
Eighth graders determine the net amount of an income for a fictional job. They must determine their net worth minus standard deductions. Students must then determine their monthly budget including, groceries, credit, and rent.
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Reality Store: How to Plan a Budget, Pay Bills, and Manage Your Money
Pupils plan a budget and pay bills when they visit the "Reality Store," a series of classroom studying stations. The use of paying bills and running a class store is used to help students grasp the concept of business.
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Getting Help: Food Stamps and Nutrition Programs
Here is another lesson regarding the law. This time, the laws that dictate eligibility for food stamps is the focus. After an initial discussion about the basics of the laws, learners do a case study of a family who is applying for food...
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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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My Test Book: Reading Pie Charts
In this math skills worksheet, students solve 9 multiple choice math problems that require them to read and interpret charts. Students may view the correct answers.
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Balancing a Budget
Young scholars investigate money management. In this secondary mathematics lesson, students participate in a cost-of-living budget simulation in which they calculate monthly and yearly projected costs. Young scholars investigate...
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Financial Planning
Students research possible careers. They determine typical starting income for the career. Using collected information, students develop a budget for their starting income. Students consider car payments and research the process of...