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Earning and Spending

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Lesson Plans


Fiscal Responsibility - Grade 9

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This lesson asks students to analyze their current spending habits, and what they can do to save money and be fiscally responsible.  Students will perform tasks comparing spending strategies and prices across similar products, and how saving money can lead to their financial well being.  Students will learn about income, expenses, budgets, and financial goals.
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Working for Money - Grade 9

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Students will explore and identify career options, including careers that require education or job training.  Students will analyze how income is affected by taxes, and naming different sources of income.  The lesson has students participate in multiple discussions, and handouts.
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Cash Free Society - Grade 9

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The compelling question of this inquiry activity, "Is the United States ready to be a cash free society?" will lead students to investigate advantages and disadvantages to paying without cash, how a cash free society functions, and to what extent the United States is already cash free.  Formative tasks include students creating graphic organizers, completing paragraph summaries, and a socratic seminar.  Students will construct their own arguments for the summative performance task to answer the compelling question.​
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Cost of College

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In this lesson students will learn the basics of budgeting for college, including expenses and the revenue needed to pay for it.  Students will examine real life examples, independantly research prospective college costs for them, compare prices and opportunity cost, and create budget plans.  The lesson is expected to take 3, 45 minute class periods.
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What is your personal financial Situation?

In this inquiry activity, students will interview their adults about the financial situation they are set up for to better understand their own starting point. Students will take a series of questions home and discuss it. They will produce a written response that teachers can choose to collect, or not. 
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What factors do you consider in your financial decisions?

In this preliminary activity, students take the Life Values quiz and hash out their own spending values.

Is College Right for you?


Other useful resources


Here are some great websites for building a sample budget:
  • Career Finder
  • Salary Finder
  • Utility Cost Calculator
  • Housing Finder
  • Car Finder and Buying a Used Car Handout
  • Food Calculator
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  • Home
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  • SSE in Context
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    • NHD Project >
      • Research
      • NHD in History
      • NHD in Psychology
    • Model UN
    • Youth and Government
  • Webquests
    • NH Veterans Project
    • Civil Rights Webquest >
      • Objectives
      • Timeline
      • People of the Movement >
        • Martin Luther King Jr.
        • Malcolm X
        • Rosa Parks
        • Orval Faubus
        • George Wallace
        • Bull Conner
    • Industrial Tycoon Webquest
  • Blog
  • SS Courses
    • US HISTORY
    • GOVERNMENT
    • PSYCHOLOGY
    • ECONOMICS >
      • Economic Evolutions
      • Economic Policy
      • Economic Problems and Solutions
    • WORLD HISTORY
    • GEOGRAPHY >
      • Global Patterns Of Human Migration
  • SSE Resources
    • Stanford History Education Group
    • Remedial Herstory
    • C3 Teachers
    • Choices Program
    • Next Gen Personal Finance
    • Civics101 Podcast
    • Edcitement
    • iCivics
    • News Matters
    • Newslea
    • Teaching Tolerance
    • GimKit (Games)