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The Mint: Ideas for Teachers: Budgeting Your Financial Resources
This lesson plan teaches students about different types of income and expenses and allows them to develop a personal budget.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Budgeting
Illustrates the difference between sources of income and fixed versus variable expenses through a simple budget plan. Introduces students to the basics of budgeting.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: The Circular Flow and Gdp
In this lesson plan summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and calculations used in describing the output of an economy. Key topics include the expenditures approach, income approach, and value added approach to calculating...
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Percents and Circle Graphs 2 [Pdf]
Students calculate the percent of the total expenses for sources of income and expenses. Learners then use this information to create a circle graph. The handout is available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Percents and Circle Graphs 1 [Pdf]
Students calculate the percent of the total income for sources of income and expenses. Learners then use this information to create a circle graph. The handout is available in PDF format.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Estimating Costs, Estimating Profits
Franklin works with Laverne to create a budget for a job painting a room, in this video segment from TV 411.
Wolters Kluwer
Small Business Guide: What Are Your Self Employment Taxes?
CCH Business Owner's Toolkit answers questions about self-employment taxes because "even if you don't hire anyone else to help you run your business, you're always going to have at least one employee, and that would be yourself."
Employment Spot
Employment Spot: Work at Home Moms
One of the biggest decisions a new mother faces is whether to stay home with her children or work outside the home. If she takes outside work, she faces separation from her child and the expense of a caregiver. If she stays home, she...
Internal Revenue Service
Irs: Tax Tutorial: Module 9: Tax Credit for Child and Dependent Care Expenses
Learn the requirements for claiming the child care tax credit in this tax tutorial.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Expenditure Output, or Keynesian Cross, Model
Use a diagram to analyze the relationship between aggregate expenditure and economic output in the Keynesian model.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Jesse 'The Body' Wants to Give Money Away!
During his campaign for governor of the State of Minnesota, former professional wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura, promised to return to the taxpayers of Minnesota the budget surpluses that had been accumulating in the state. Upon...
Curated OER
Social Studies for Kids: Needs vs. Wants: Basic Economics
This website examines the difference between needs and wants, offers the chance for the student to make a budget, and discusses personal finance with an emphasis on income and expenses.
Curated OER
Social Studies for Kids: Needs vs. Wants: Basic Economics
This website examines the difference between needs and wants, offers the chance for the student to make a budget, and discusses personal finance with an emphasis on income and expenses.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Retirement Savings Calculator
Estimate the amount of time of your savings will last based on what you have to start, your monthly income deposits, and your monthly expense withdrawals.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Budgets: Don't Go Broke
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using this flipchart, students will learn budgeting, reading a pay stub, understanding payroll deductions, PYF, and how to utilize a bank or credit union.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Picks Theorem
This lesson introduces students to Activity Center and is intended to help students interpret representations of functions of two variables. The Activity Center will be used to investigate equations that represent a company's income,...
Bankrate
Bankrate: How Do I Budget My Big Salary?
The site provides an accountant's view about the percentages of income we should budget for our monthly living expenses. A good resource for students interested in making and managing money. (Aug. 22, 2000)