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This lesson uses a Better Money Habits video to reinforce budgeting concepts.

Using a Better Money Habits video, this lesson introduces students to the advantages and disadvantages of using debit cards and credit cards.

What better way to address Common Core standards in Reading Informational Text than by meeting a gentleman that changed the world of technology!

In this economics lesson, students will read and discuss the comic book, “A Penny Saved".

How to amortize a loan using an Excel spreadsheet.

Understanding the concept of opportunity cost is critical for good decision making. The ability to identify the opportunity cost—the highest valued alternative that must be given up when another option is chosen—helps people to assess their alternatives.

Students will understand what businesses are, that a marketplace exists whenever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services, and that there is competition in the market place if you have more than one seller of the same item or similar items.

Students explore the concept of interest by means of two activities. The first, a simple activity with jellybeans, introduces the concept of interest accruement, and the second, a practical, "real world" activity, reinforces the concept and places it into a larger context.

Fairy tales have always been used to give lessons about life. The story of Jack and the Bean Stalk is a good lesson about the importance of knowing about money and banks. The story of Jack asks the question, "What is money?"