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Simulate real-world personal budgeting by assigning each student a fictional career with a salary and student loan debt, then guiding them through calculating take-home pay and a full monthly household budget.
Multi-day project-based math unit where students plan a themed class party: brainstorming, researching costs from store flyers, adding decimals to build a budget, and designing a proposal, aligned to Common Core math-practice and grade 3-4 ELA writing standards.
Here’s a realistic and engaging way to teach upper elementary pupils in grades 3-6 about budgeting while introducing some basic financial literacy too! How to Use: 1) Each student will be assigned a monthly budget (from $1,700 all the way to $5,000). 2) They select one of three options (low, medium, pricey) for each spending category: housing, eating,…
A real-world financial literacy budgeting project where students research and compare the three ways to pay for a car (saving, loan, lease) and calculate the full monthly cost of car ownership.
This Financial Literacy: Vacation Math Project will get students excited about using math skills in everyday life to plan something fun: a vacation! It's a great math project to use before summer vacation or anytime you want to incorporate financial literacy into your curriculum! They will plan a personal vacation including a flight, hotel, some kind of…
A middle/high school personal finance and budgeting project teaching students to differentiate needs vs. wants and build a monthly budget.
Give students a park-design problem with a perimeter of fifty-six units and a choice of internal layout. They divide the space among six uses, calculate area-based costs and add fencing before finding the total project cost. A pool-depth requirement adds volume work, while comparing finished plans can reveal how equal perimeters produce different areas and budgets.
A high-school life-skills project (Module 1 of a 'Moving Out On Your Own' series) that has students research real apartment listings and evaluate housing options to build independent-living and budgeting skills.
This resource is an Economics: Personal Finance Student Project. In this 18 page product (Google and Traditional version provided) students will have everything they need to complete a research project on personal finance. While completing this project, students will develop an understanding of how much it really costs to live on their own and support…
A high school financial literacy project where students compare a single-income vs. dual-income family budget to evaluate the real-world trade-offs of one parent staying home for childcare versus both parents working.
Guide students through a real-world multi-step math project applying arithmetic, geometry, spatial reasoning, and budgeting skills by planning and pricing a bedroom renovation.
Here’s an engaging, summer-themed, real-world math budget project for your middle grades students (in grades 5-8). The math project incorporates useful personal finance and financial literacy skills along with realistic budgeting. Each student in your class is going to plan their purchases for a summer camping trip with friends! How to Use: You will…
Apply linear-equation and budgeting math skills to an end-of-year 'staycation' planning project.
Real-world financial literacy/consumer math project in which students research and plan a hypothetical wedding budget.
A multi-day real-world math project in which students practice adding decimals/money by proposing a classroom library book order within a budget.
A personal-finance project teaching middle and high school students how checking accounts work, including writing/endorsing/voiding checks, using debit cards and ATMs, and balancing a checkbook ledger.
Assess and apply addition and subtraction of decimals to the thousandths through a graded quiz and a real-world road-trip budgeting project.
A cross-curricular project-based-learning module blending environmental science (urban heat island effect, hydrological disruption) with municipal-finance math (capital vs. operational expenditures, opportunity cost, cost-benefit analysis) around the theme of designing a climate-resilient city.
A 370-page environmental science textbook/handbook for grades 6-12 covering environmental science fundamentals, energy concepts, renewable energy technologies (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, biomass, ocean), energy storage and grid systems, project planning, and environmental impact measurement, including DIY project instructions.