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Budget Project
Prepare your students for real-world financial responsibilities with budget projects that teach money management. This collection includes personal budgeting, trip planning expenses, and mock household finances. By integrating these projects into your teaching, you can promote financial literacy and life skills.
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Buy or Lease Car Budget: High School Financial Literacy Budget Project
Life Studies, Home Economics, Finance, Math, Money, Multiplication and Division, Addition and Subtraction, Special Resources, Life Skills, Grade 9, 10, 11, 12, Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets, Activities, Projects
If you need a new and engaging financial literacy project for your class- check this out! Your high school students in 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade can research buying or leasing a car and create their own personalized Car Budget . This project includes simple & realistic spreadsheets along with written reflection questions that help students consider all of the expenses of having access to a car! Classes to Use With : This project can be used with your high school students in several classes Family & Consumer Sciences Financial Literacy Applied Math or Consumer Math Career & Personal Planning High School Life Skills (where appropriate) How to Use: Print a three-page car budget project that includes spreadsheets & reflection questions for each student. Teach a quick lesson about the 3 ways to pay for a car: saving up over time to buy it, securing a loan to buy it, or leasing it and not buying it. Let students work in pairs or small groups to research key facts for each of the 3 ways to pay for a car. They will research real cars for sale in their area and calculate how many months it would take to save up for one of them, they will use a loan calculator online to see what payments will be, and they will look for local lease options in their area. Then they will consider all of the other car costs: insurance, repairs, gas, and parking before adding up a monthly grand total for having a car. Make sure to go over the written reflection questions and give students time to think about them and answer them. Facilitate a class discussion about car costs, the pros and cons of borrowing money for a car, and whether your students think they could use other methods of transportation instead. What's Included: A 4-Page PDF that is ready to print and use! Teacher Instructions Complete 2-Page Car Budget Worksheet with Spreadsheets Reflection Questions If you enjoy this financial literacy and budget activity, check out others in my store: Camping Budget Household Budget Grocery Shopping Budget Vacation Budget Wedding Budget
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Tags High School Financial Literacy, Financial Literacy, Budget, Budgeting, Budget Project, Financial Literacy Project, Applied Math, Buy A Car, Lease A Car, Car Budget
Wedding Budget: High School Financial Literacy and Budgeting Project
Life Studies, Home Economics, Finance, Math, Money, Multiplication and Division, Addition and Subtraction, Special Resources, Life Skills, Grade 9, 10, 11, 12, Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets, Activities, Projects
Do you need a new personal financial literacy or applied math life skills project? Have your high school students research and create a personalized Wedding Budget with fourteen categories of items, a two-page spreadsheet, and written reflection questions to help them think about how they can pay for it all! Classes to Use With : High school students in a variety of classes Family & Consumer Sciences Applied Math or Consumer Math Career & Personal Planning Personal Financial Literacy High School Life Skills Students will create a detailed wedding budget and think about how much money they really want to spend on one day! The included discussion questions will help them learn about borrowing money for a wedding and how that option can make it cost even more because of interest payments ! How to Use: 1. Print a 3-page budget project that includes a spreadsheet and reflection questions for each of your students. 2. Go over page one as a class. Students can share a variety of wedding sizes they have gone to personally. Discuss the wide range of wedding budgets people typically spend. 3. Give students time to pick their number of guests and their budget. Remind them they must figure out a way to pay for the budget they choose. 4. Give students one to two work periods to research real wedding items for each of the fourteen categories. They will need to have access to technology to do this. 5. Make sure students multiply items that are guest dependent and add up their wedding grand total carefully. Have them trade sheets with a friend to double check. 6. Go over the written reflection questions and then give students time to answer them. 7. To wrap up, have a discussion about realistic wedding costs, borrowing money, and whether your students think it is a smart idea to do that. What's Included: 4-Page PDF: Ready to Print and Use! Teacher Instructions & Lesson Ideas 2-Page Wedding Budget Spreadsheet Reflection Questions If you enjoy this budget activity, check out others in my store: Camping Budget Household Budget Vacation Budget Grocery Shopping Budget
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Tags Wedding Planning, Wedding, Wedding Budget, High School Financial Literacy, Financial Literacy, Budget, Budgeting, Budget Project, Financial Literacy Project, Applied Math
My Budget Project – Financial Literacy Grades 3–6
Special Resources, Life Studies, Life Skills, Finance, Home Economics, Math, Money, Addition and Subtraction, Addition, Multiplication and Division, Division, Subtraction, Grade 3, 4, 5, 6, Worksheets & Printables, Word Problems, Activities, Projects
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, transportation, technology, & clothing. They might find that they have to change their choices as they move through the process. Making sacrifices is part of budgeting in real life too! 3) Students add up the amounts they spend and calculate how much they can save per month (and throughout the entire year). 4) They pick what luxury option they would save for over time: a car, a video game system, a vacation, or a house. This lesson is full of fun and bright visuals and charts that are well-organized to ensure that this math learning is accessible to all the students in your class! Math skills needed: Addition - up to 1,000 Subtraction - 4-digit numbers Multiplication - 4-digit numbers by 12 Grades to Use With: This lessons is designed to be accessible to younger students in the elementary years (grades 3-6) because it uses simple math skills and bright and engaging visuals. It could also be an excellent resource for a high school special education classroom! What's Included: A total of 10 pages: Title Page Different Student Budgets to Assign Student Title Page Budget Spreadsheet 5 pages of options (housing, eating, transportation, technology, and clothing) Savings Spreadsheet If you enjoy this project, please check out other math and financial literacy activities in my store: Grace Under Pressure ! I strive to help students see how the math skills they learn in the classroom are super helpful in everyday life! Back to School Budget Activity Halloween Budget Activity My Party Budget: Decimals and Percentages Practice
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Tags Financial Literacy, Budget Project, Spending, Saving, Budget, Rent, Groceries, Shopping, Transportation, Banking
Taxes: What Do Taxes Pay For: Income Tax, Financial Literacy, HS Math
Life Studies, Finance, Home Economics, Math, Addition and Subtraction, Money, Special Resources, Life Skills, Grade 9, 10, 11, 12, Activities, Projects, Worksheets & Printables, Word Problems, Worksheets
What do the taxes you pay do? This high school personal financial literacy, life skills, and applied math project is designed for your students in 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade when they are learning about all kinds of taxes and how the money collected by the government from income tax, property tax & sales tax is used in our society. How to Use: Print five pages of worksheets per student. Read through page one together and discuss the kinds of taxes that the government collects. Next, students investigate the local services their government funds with tax money. For some of these government services, it may be quite easy for your students to research a private alternative cost (for example, they find the tuition cost for a private school in their city). For other services, it will be definitely be harder to find a private alternative cost. Encourage your students to make reasonable estimates. Being exact is not crucial; the goal is for students to think about how much money it would cost to replace all the public services with private options. On the third and fourth pages, students will read about a fictional family: the Browns. They will use information and amounts provided in the simulation to total all of the expenses the Browns would have to pay out of pocket in a community that has no taxes. Would it really be better that way? Finally, on the fifth page, students will write a reflection about what they have learned about taxes from this project. Lead a class discussion to allow students to share their ideas and opinions. A complete answer key is provided for easy marking. What's Included: 7-Page PDF: Ready to Print and Use! Teacher Instructions 2 Pages: Research Local Programs Funded by Taxes and Private Alternatives 2-Page Realistic Simulation (with Spreadsheet) Reflection Answer Key Grades to Use With: This financial literacy, applied math, and life skills project is designed for your high school students in a variety of classes: consumer math, personal financial literacy, career & personal planning, applied math, or life skills.
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Tags Tax, Taxes, Income Tax, Income Taxes, Social Programs, Civics, High School Financial Literacy, High School Life Skills, Government, Budget