Budgeting, saving, and investment strategies alongside practical skills for managing credit, taxes, and banking. Addresses insurance needs, employment income, and major purchase decisions to support comprehensive long-term financial planning.
This lesson teaches students how to calculate total costs of multiple items and make spending decisions based on a fixed budget.
This lesson focuses on identifying US coins (penny, nickel, dime, quarter) and their respective values through visual recognition and matching.
Students learn to use a calculator to add up the prices of grocery items, following a visual step-by-step guide to ensure accuracy in a real-world shopping scenario.
A hands-on introduction to basic budgeting and grocery shopping. Students practice identifying prices, comparing costs, and making simple purchasing decisions using dollars and cents with high visual support.
A practical math lesson focused on real-world shopping skills, specifically calculating change and comparing prices of grocery items.
A practical lesson focused on the real-world social skills of ordering food, communicating with workers, and navigating a public restaurant space with confidence.
An interactive role-playing lesson where students practice food vocabulary and social skills by simulating a grocery shopping experience. Students take on roles as shopkeepers and customers to use target language in a functional context.
A functional life skills lesson focused on identifying currency, making simple change, and basic budgeting for independent living.
A primary-level lesson exploring the differences between essential needs, personal wants, and future hopes, including how we feel when needs aren't met.
A comprehensive lesson teaching students the mechanics of sending mail, the etiquette of timing for letters and bills, and a hands-on Valentine's Day mailing project.
Focuses on food preparation and nutrition. Students follow visual recipes to prepare taco ingredients and identify healthy food groups.
Focuses on the financial and social aspects of grocery shopping. Students calculate costs, manage a budget, and learn the social expectations of visiting a store.
A comprehensive 4-hour individual lesson for an adult learner at a 2nd-grade level, focusing on money identification, needs vs. wants, making purchases, and saving strategies through hands-on activities and role-play.
A fun, interactive game-based lesson where club members learn about healthy eating, community safety, and daily living skills by playing Two Truths and a Lie. Club members will act as 'Fact Finders' to identify myths and facts in these key life areas.
A 40-minute PYP inquiry into the functions of money, helping second graders distinguish between needs and wants while exploring how money acts as a tool for exchange.
Students learn the difference between needs and wants and practice the 'Needs First' rule by managing a $20 budget to purchase essentials before luxuries.
Students participate in a 'Market Day' to sell their goods, earn play money, and experience the full cycle of earning and repaying debts.
Acting as entrepreneurs, students plan a product and decide which 'investments' (materials) they need to borrow or buy to create value.
Students distinguish between consumption (spending for now) and investment (spending for growth) using the metaphor of seeds versus snacks.
Introduces credit as a promise to pay later, using a 'promise note' simulation to show how credit allows for immediate action with future obligations.
Students define borrower and lender roles through classroom scenarios and discuss the importance of trust and responsibility when using someone else's items.
Students synthesize their learning by designing a 'Financial Shield' poster that represents their diversified saving and investing plan.
Students categorize different types of assets (cash, items, and investments) to understand how variety provides financial security.
Students explore a 'mixed' strategy by splitting tokens between safe and risky options to see how diversification protects their wealth.
Students participate in a simulation to compare guaranteed small returns (safety) with high-risk/high-reward options (coin flips).
A physical relay race where students carry plastic eggs to observe the difference between carrying all eggs in one basket versus splitting them up.
This lesson introduces young students to the basics of financial literacy, focusing on saving, budgeting, and the value of money through interactive activities.
Students create and practice using visual progress trackers, like thermometers, to represent their journey toward their financial goals.
Through a role-playing activity and the 'Marshmallow Test' adaptation, students learn the benefits of waiting for a larger reward later.
Students select a specific item or experience they want to save for, draw it, and estimate the time needed to reach their goal.
This lesson introduces a physical system for managing money using three containers: Spending, Saving, and Sharing.
Students imagine and draw a future business or invention they would like to own, presenting why it would be a valuable asset.
Students encounter scenarios where the business doesn't make a profit, introducing the concept of risk and the ups and downs of ownership.
Students experience the 'return on investment' as profits from the simulated lemonade stand are distributed to shareholders as dividends.
