The first step in managing your money is making money! Learn about ways to find and interview for a job with a thorough instructional activity on personal finances. Kids learn about the ways to earn a paycheck and then manage the funds...

From evaluating the current employment market to building a resume, pupils are introduced to the wide and varied elements of career planning. 

Some of us never feel like we know how to do our taxes! Help scholars understand the process early by using an informative resource. They fill out their own tax forms in a simulation activity and view multiple resources to learn even...

Second graders become involved in the advertisement, marketing, and development of their own cookie business. Students must choose a job for the preparation and baking of the cookies. Students also manage the profits and advertisement of...

Students explore the concept of getting a job and buying a home. In this getting a job and buying a home lesson plan, students research job qualifications and salaries for various jobs. Students discuss what is a mortgage and how one...

Young scholars research employment rates in the United States with a focus on broadcast journalists. In this employment rate lesson, students visit the given websites to explore popular states to live in, highest and lowest unemployment...

In this activity middle schoolers pretend that they have been hired by a candy manufacturer to design a box for a new product they are beginning to market. The manufacturer has pre-determined the volume of the candy box. It is the...

Almost every teen wants a car, but can they really afford one? The lesson walks pupils through how to identify a budget, find all of the costs associated with car ownership, and determine if they should buy the car or keep looking.

Students explore the concept of probabiility and outcome through several decision making activities. Making accurate predictions in daily life including weather forecasting, stock market selections, or job changes are all dependent on...

Students, in groups, venture onto the schoolground on a scavenger hunt for shapes. They are given tasks: recorder, team leader, presenter, reporter, and behavior guidelines and a time limit. They search the school for shapes found in...

After conjuring up images of the ideal lifestyle, young adults are given a reality check. They take an online quiz and complete an activity that requires them to put their dream lifestyle in a real-world context. They determine how...

Second graders complete an inquiry activity to determine how many combinations they can make using cut-outs of tops and bottoms. In this combinations and organized lists table, 2nd graders work with three colored cut-outs of tops and...

Pupils identify and solve problems using fractions. In this algebra lesson, students compare fractions and simplify with 80% accuracy. They manipulate fraction on the smart board through simplification.

Students create a Road Trip. They work in small groups. Students are given a road map for each group. They plan a road trip between two cities on opposite edges of the map, estimating a reasonable distance to travel each day. Students...

Learners explore investing and saving. In this investing lesson, students identify their own financial goals and hurdles to success, calculate interest, and simulate banking and investing transactions. Incentive certificates, a quiz, and...

Students view a 30-minute video lesson to discover information about the characteristics of frogs and toads. They then transform themselves into frogs and participate in a Jumping Frog Jubilee. They work in groups of three to measure and...

Students role play the role of an employee who is to open a new department for people interested in careers using math. Using the Internet, they research the various types of careers and describe them in a portfolio. They also examine...

Students discriminate between a need and a want in home buying. They write a detailed description of their dream home. Finally they categorize each of their listed home features as a need or a want.

Learners research nonprofit organizations within their community. For this nonprofits lesson, students use the yellow pages to identify the number of nonprofit organizations in their community. Learners graph the number of nonprofit...

Young scholars develop a budget for either a single parent, or a household with two adults and a child. They develop a list of expenses, and create a PowerPoint presentation.

Fourth graders participate in a math game that involves practicing their equivalent fraction skills in the advanced multiplication stage seven. They assess their ability skills of equivalent fractions to match twenty seven dominoes on...

Students explore the concept of budgeting. In this budgeting lesson, students pick an occupation and develop a list of needs and wants. Students make a list of monthly expenses and budget their income to afford those expenses.

Students talk about the types of insects that you might see if you looked in the garden. They then brainstorm for ideas about how to solve the problem, sort objects into categories and display the results and count the objects in a...

Students guess the subject of the given problem by reasoning. Then they discuss the ways that the problem could be solved by keeping track of their counting in 10s and showing their work.