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Developing a holiday budget: As you enter the holiday season, it can be challenging to track your spending! Join Cindy Fitzthum as she presents how to develop a holiday budget and embrace a frugal lifestyle.

In this personal finance webinar, explore using Sesame Street to teach about saving, spending, sharing and more!

Balancing the Federal Budget -- When I first started teaching economics in 2010, the U.S. national debt was around $13.5 TRILLION. Since then, it has nearly doubled to $20.6 TRILLION in only eight years. Why is the federal budget an important topic for young people to learn about? What is th…

This session features two new chapter book series: Cleo Edison Oliver: Playground Millionaire and Billy Sure: Kid Entrepreneur.  Participants will be introduced to interactive lessons and hands-on activities concerning earning an income, saving for future purchases, spending, and the essenti…

A budget is not a dirty word. Learn how to help students embrace the budgeting process by framing the topic in terms of making good financial decisions. Students are naturally curious about spending and saving money – they want to create plans to help them reach their goal, whether it is for…

This webinar focuses on fictional families facing some very real problems; hunger, parental illness, joblessness, unpaid bills, and homelessness. Students can learn valuable life lessons concerning earning, saving, spending, and creative problem solving in books such as Crenshaw, How to Stea…

ESSENTIAL DILEMMA How do we know if we are getting good value out of the money we spend on defense?

Students read two online stories that introduce them to the elements of a budget and show that a successful budget balances money coming in (income) with money going out (expenses and savings). Follow-up activities point out the value of a budget. Students learn that a budget can help us mak…

ESSENTIAL DILEMMA When, if ever, should the nation prioritize balancing the federal budget?

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…