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  1. A Penny Saved is a Penny at 4.7% Earned- Income is what gets you stuff, but how do you get income? Do you earn an allowance?
  2. Bingo Brown and the Language of Love- Students will be able to: define credit, loan, and interest; explain what service credit is; compare the advantages and disadvantages of using cash and credit.
  3. Budgeting Makes A Difference- Students are given different amounts of money to see if they can figure out a budget and compare and contrast what life is like now with a child and what life would be like if they were older and had someone else to help them raise a child.
  4. Buy A Bond, James! A Lesson on US Savings Bonds- You will write a persuasive letter telling why people use savings bonds as a way to save their money.
  1. Buying vs. Renting- In this lesson, your basic economic decision making skills will be used to weigh the pros and cons of home ownership, and to analyze housing options.
  2. Car Shopping- The world is full of goods, things that people can buy or share. Throughout the world, different people have different ideas of how to distribute, or give out, goods.
  3. Changes in Change- Today's lesson will sharpen your money counting skills and introduce you to some new coins.
  4. Fun with counting coins- The students will learn to match a quarter, penny, nickel, and a dime to the amount specified throughout activities.
  5. Four Dollars and Fifty Cents- In this lesson, students use the book, Four Dollars and Fifty Cents, to discover ways that creditors can obtain payment from reluctant debtors.
  6. FUNNY MONEY- The purpose of this(one day) lesson is to stress the importance of good attendance, student promptness, and overall student responsibility.
  7. How many pennies?- Students will be able to estimate how many pennies are in a jar.
  8. Introducing Money- Learn the coin rap and coin values.
  9. Is the Price of Gasoline Really Too High?- Planning any road trips this summer? Maybe to the lake or a new city. How about a national park or even an amusement park?
  10. It's On Sale!- This activity is a good one around Thanksgiving and Christmas when the "big catalogs" come out.
  11. Let Us Go Shopping!- This lesson will help students learn what total cost is. There will be a mock store set up in the classroom with objects that have price tags on them for the students to practice their addition skills in working with money.
  12. Let's Talk Turkey: The Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner- Have you ever wondered what it costs to prepare a traditional Thanksgiving meal of turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, cranberries, and other goodies?
  13. Money- Use the coins to arrive at the designated total marked on the envelops.
  14. Money- The students will identify each coin and it's assigned value. The students will count money with different coins up to totals of one dollar.
  15. Money- The learner will identify the value of a penny and nickel; count groups of pennies and nickels.
  16. Money Doesn't Grow on Trees- In this lesson, you will explore the ways people get money. Then you will create a plan for earning extra money.
  17. Money in the Bank- Students will use coins to practice their addition and subtraction skills.
  18. Money is What Money Does- Throughout history, a wide variety of items have served as money.
  19. Mr. Popper's Penguins- This lesson addresses the issue of credit, focusing on the importance of wise credit decisions, the risks lenders face, the role of interest or finance charges, and the credit user's responsibility to repay.
  20. Now That You're Earning Money, What Will You Do With It?- Purpose of a budget, who makes budgets, budget example.
  21. On The Money- In this lesson, students explore what money is and how it differs around the world.
  22. Pennies Make Cents- Students will review the history of trade before money and will investigate the history of money.
  23. Should I Use Cash or Credit?- To use or not to use credit for a major purchase is an important decision.
  24. Teaching Money- Students will be able to identify coin/money values. Students will be able to write amounts of money.
  25. The Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money- Students read about the cubs' spendthrift ways and how Mama and Papa Bear teach them to earn and save. Students learn about figures of speech, and they create "critter banks" in which they can begin to save.
  26. The Changing Face of Money- In this lesson, students play a game to guess which objects have been used as money throughout history.
  27. The Hundred Penny Box- After reading The Hundred Penny Box, students compare how people save money in financial institutions. Students analyze the advantages of regular saving and how savings grow with compounding.
  28. This Little Piggybank Went to Market- This lesson provides students with the opportunity to learn about saving money and banking.
  29. Time is Money- Students will learn what total cost means in this lesson. The students will help set up the classroom like a store.
  30. Time Value of Money- Suppose your brother or sister owed you $500. Would you rather have this money repaid to you right away, in one payment, or spread out over a year in four installment payments?
  31. Using Bank Services- Identify three banks near you where you could bank. Differentiate between a savings account and a checking account.
  32. Where Does Money Come From?- Explanation of physical supply of money, income and work.
  33. What Is Credit?- Why credit exists, importance of managing credit, checking account as form of credit.
  34. What Is Money?- Images of money in society, why is money necessary, short history of money.
  35. What Would You Work Hard For?- Young children should begin to learn about the concept of value and why some items are considered more valuable than others.
  36. What's My Interest?- In this lesson, you will learn about interest and about how and why banks pay it.
  37. Why Do People Save?- Unpredictability of future needs, introduction to bank day.
  38. Yard Sale- After the teacher reads Yard Sale, the class discusses spending decision of the animals in the story. Students learn a decision-making process and how to identify their opportunity cost.

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