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Explore Financial Literacy - Lesson Plans


Budgeting 101 (levels: 3)
budgeting, budget, income, fixed expenses, flexible expenses, personal budget, personal income, expenses

Buying on Credit (levels: 4)
credit, buying on credit, interest, personal finance, percents

Candies and Cash (levels: 4)
integers

Car for Sale! (levels: 1, 2)
writing, writing assessment, editing

Central Tendencies and Spread With Money (levels: 4)
central tendency, calculating central tendency, meanmedian, mode, range

Chocolate Bars and Ebola (levels: 2, 3)
cause and effect, global economy, inflation, supply , demand, supply and demand, price increase, Ebola, causes of inflation

Choosing the Phone That's Right for You (levels: 5, 6)
summarize, compare and contrast, writing a response to a prompt, comparing cell phones, building vocabulary

Consumer Scams (levels: 1, 2, 3)
consumer protection, consumer scams, writing a letter, letter writing, writing, writing assessment, language assessment, editing

Cutting Expenses (levels: 2, 3, 4)
expenses, budget, personal finance, whole numbers, bar graphs

Energy Choices (levels: 3)
energy choices

Financial Responsibility and Career Planning (levels: 1, 2, 3)
financial responsibility, career planning, budget, budgeting, personal finance, consumer economics, Ohio Means Jobs

How Much Will I Spend on Gas? (levels: 4)
consumer economics, ratios, proportional relationships, expressions, equations, functions, gas prices, gas mileage

Introducing Interest (levels: 4)
interest, computing interest

Making Cents (levels: 1)
counting, addition, money

The Market Economy (levels: 2, 3, 4)
economics, market economy, inflation, deflation, consumers, supply, demand, price

Not Everything is More Expensive (levels: 4)
calculate percent, percent, percents

Operational Accuracy (levels: 2, 3)
operations, mathematical operations

Party Time (levels: 3, 4)
unit rate, ratio relationship

Paycheck Advance Loans (levels: 4, 5, 6)
interest, rate of interest, loan, finance charge, cash advance, advance loan

Pumped Up Gas Prices (levels: 3, 4)
ratios, proportions, consumer economics, gas prices

Rent-to-Own (levels: 3, 4)
rent-to-own, compare and contrast, writing assessment, language assessment, evidence

Rolling in the Money (levels: 3, 4, 5)
add, subtract, multiple divide, exponents, roots, fractions

Salaries Interest and Inflation (levels: 3, 4, 5)
salary, interest, inflation, exponential equations, order of operations, coordinate pair, career pathways

Shop 'Til You Drop (levels: 3, 4)
unit price, cost comparison

Show Me the Money (levels: 3, 4)
financial literacy, banking, consumer economics, compare and contrast, bank account, checking account

Simple Interest (levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
interest , calculate interest, word problems, real-life problems

Super Dollar Special (levels: 2, 3)
reading, informational text, main idea, supporting details

Which Car Should I Buy? (levels: 4)










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