Budget Projects

Financial Literacy: Household Budget Project

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.

Includes: 16 fictional career cards with assigned salary and student-loan-debt amounts · paycheck worksheet (gross income, tiered tax/social-security calculation, net income) · monthly expense budget worksheet (student loan, rent, insurance, utilities, internet, phone, transportation, health insurance, groceries, clothing, entertainment, gifts, memberships, vacation savings)

Party Planning Math Project: Use a Budget, Add Decimals and Make a Theme

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.

Includes: unit description and teacher instructions · GANAG lesson-structure explanation · Day One: brainstorming lesson with graphic organizer

My Budget Project – Financial Literacy Grades 3–6

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,…

Buy or Lease Car Budget: High School Financial Literacy Budget Project

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.

Includes: Teacher "How to Use" instructions page · Save-up-to-buy worksheet section (research 3 cars, calculate months to save at $500/month) · Loan worksheet section (use CIBC online car loan calculator, record monthly payment/loan amount/interest/total cost)

Financial Literacy Vacation Math Project: Budgeting and Percentages

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…

Personal Finance and Budgeting Project

A middle/high school personal finance and budgeting project teaching students to differentiate needs vs. wants and build a monthly budget.

Includes: 38-page PDF project packet (introduction, videos overview, video worksheets, 'Penny Wise' budgeting activity) · matching 38-page PowerPoint (.pptx) version of the same project

Geometry Project: Park Design- Area, Perimeter, Volume, and Budgeting

This math project allows students in 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade to apply their knowledge of perimeter, area, volume, financial literacy, and decimal calculations to a realistic & creative situation: planning a fun new park! They will design a new park that includes different areas for swimming, playing, eating, resting, walking, and even skating!…

🏠 Moving Out On Your Own Project – Module 1: Finding a Home

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.

Includes: 'Why the Moving Out Project?' purpose/goal overview slide · module list/menu slide · Module 1: Choosing a Home instructions slide (search real listings, record rent/utilities, consider commute/laundry/safety, pick top choice)

Economics: Personal Finance Student Project

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…

Single vs Dual Income Budget: High School Financial Literacy Budgeting

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.

Includes: introduction page to the sample family (Kat and Alex) with net income calculation · single-income budget spreadsheet with listed monthly expenses · dual-income budget spreadsheet with listed monthly expenses

Room Renovation Project

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.

Includes: introduction/teacher notes with adaptation and differentiation guidance · project overview describing 8 tasks · Task 1: room dimensions and blueprint

Camping Budget Project – Grades 5–8 Math + Finance

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…

Summer "Stay"cation for End of Year Math Project aligned with Common Core

Apply linear-equation and budgeting math skills to an end-of-year 'staycation' planning project.

Includes: Vacation/budget planner instructions · linear equation (y=75x) reasoning questions · meal-planning questions (breakfast, etc.)

Wedding Budget: High School Financial Literacy and Budgeting Project

Real-world financial literacy/consumer math project in which students research and plan a hypothetical wedding budget.

Includes: teacher instructions/how-to-use page · budget worksheet with 14 spending categories across 2-3 pages · 5 written reflection questions covering budget adherence, financing methods, savings timeline, and loan interest cost

FREE Book Order Proposal: Real Life Problem Solving for Classroom Library

A multi-day real-world math project in which students practice adding decimals/money by proposing a classroom library book order within a budget.

Includes: unit description and rationale for teaching money/decimals via project · Day 1-3 GANAG-structured lesson plan with CCSS.Math.Practice standards (MP1, MP3, MP6) and CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1b · sample decimal addition problems

Checking Account Project

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.

Includes: glossary of checking-account terms · interview-an-adult activity · parts-of-a-check guide and practice questions

Gr 4 and 5 Math: Adding and Subtracting Decimals Quiz and Project

Assess and apply addition and subtraction of decimals to the thousandths through a graded quiz and a real-world road-trip budgeting project.

Includes: decimal addition/subtraction quiz with estimation questions, scored out of 20 · 5-day road trip budgeting project (gas, hotels+taxes, attractions, food costs)

Project-Based Learning Designing a Climate-Resilient City

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.

Includes: Chapter 1: Foundations of Climate Resilience and Urban Ecology (urban heat island, hydrological disruption) · Knowledge Verification 1.1 fill-in-the-blank check · Chapter 2: Civic Economics and Budgetary Constraints (CapEx/OpEx, opportunity cost)

Sustainable Energy Projects Handbook - Environmental Science Book

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.