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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Money Smart Choices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners make choices regarding money management. In this personal finance lesson, students explore budgets, incomes, and expenses as they learn vocabulary regarding personal finance and consider how to create personal budgets.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Managing Your Food Money

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students investigate family budgeting methods. In this family budget activity, students examine the wages and expenditures of family and participate in a simulation that requires them to employ the envelope budget method.
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Lesson Plan
Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Lesson One: Making Spending Decisions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The goal of this lesson is to introduce structured spending decisions to assist young children in making choices and to recognize that money comes in limited amounts.
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Lesson Plan
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: How Are Funding Decisions Made?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based on Avi's book, Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel, young scholars will recognize that different schools, businesses, organizations, etc. have varying methods to allocate funds within the group. After completing research...
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Activity
Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: Is Paying Over Time a Smart Move?

For Students 9th - 10th
At T.V. 411 you can explore the concept of paying over time with situations involving credit cards, rent to own items, and more. This interactive lesson gives the learner an opportunity to make decisions about money management.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Count on It!: Episode 206 Blossom and Snappy Go to the Bank, Part Ii

For Students K - 1st Standards
Blossom and Snappy continue to try to earn money for a present for Robbie's birthday by having a bake sale. They go back to the bank and learn about checking accounts and loans.
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: What Is Currency? Lessons From Historic Africa

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
From the Smithsonian, this site offers lessons and resources on currency, its use (in the form of gold dust, salt, or metal objects) as an instrument of trade in historic Africa, and its requirements as an instrument of trade in the...
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eBook
LM Digital Media

Kids World Fun: Elias in the Village of Uncle Euro by Anna Kondis [Pdf]

For Students K - 1st
Elias learns a lesson about how to earn an use money wisely.