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Teach a Kid to Save: A Fun, Hands-on Approach for Building Smart Money Habits

Updated: February 2 2026
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Objective

Teachers will be able to:

  • Use best practices in creating real-world learning experiences about money
  • Create a mini-economy that builds student money habits
  • Avoid common mistakes in creating mini-economies

Standards

State Standards

Concepts

Circular Flow, Entrepreneurs, Factors of Production, Interdependence, Markets and Price, Money, Productive Resources, Specialization, Trade, Exchange, and Markets

Description

Elementary-age kids need to develop money habits, and to develop habits they need practice. Most of the time we don’t give it to them. This webinar will show you how to do it. Includes free downloadable templates for starting out a classroom or home economy. Dr. Day has run his home economy with his own children for several years, showed teachers how to make a classroom version, and written a whole book about it. Now he wants to share it all with you.
Subjects:
Personal Finance

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