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In this personal finance activity, students match terms about saving with their definitions.

In this personal finance activity, students will consider the costs of saving to make a purchase.

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 1: Why Save? from CEE's Learning Earning and Investing for a New Generation publication. Following an introduction that defines saving, the students discuss the idea of "paying yourself first" and the reasons why people save. After reporting …

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

In the story, Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday, Alexander receives a dollar from his grandparents that he plans to save, but he spends it all, a little at a time. In this lesson, students count by 2s to fill a container with 100 pennies. They are asked whether 100 pennies is the…

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.

High school students have rarely been asked to look at their future beyond where they will be going to college or what job they think they will have. This lesson asks you to think in a long-term perspective. By using a timeline, something you should be familiar with from past history cla…

One of the most important financial decisions people make is whether to go to college. The price tag of a college education is rising, but so are the benefits. In this lesson, students will begin by learning the relationship between level of education and the average unemployment rate; and l…

Use the lovable character Curious George to capture student attention while teaching about personal finance and economics.

In this personal finance lesson, students will compare simple and compound interest on savings.