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PricewaterhouseCoopers

Saving and Investing: Building Wealth for Financially-Secure Futures

For Teachers 9th - 12th
While spending is fun, saving for a retirement is the future. Young adults learn about the importance of saving and different opportunities to do so during their adulthood. 
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California Department of Education

College: Plan Well and Pay Less

For Teachers 11th Standards
They say you gotta pay to play, and postsecondary education is no exception! High schoolers learn how to research and analyze the cost of postsecondary education as well as the different ways to pay for schooling. Learners then work...
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Visa

A Perfect Fit: Finding the Right Career for You

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Class members explore possible career paths and consider their own passions and interests by researching job openings, career descriptions, and skills, as well as reading the success stories of experienced entrepreneurs.
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Visa

Financial Forces: Understanding Taxes and Inflation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Take the opportunity to offer your young adults some important financial wisdom on the way taxes and inflation will affect their lives in the future. Through discussion and review of different real-world scenarios provided...
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University of Missouri

Money Math

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Young mathematicians put their skills to the test in the real world during this four-lesson consumer math unit. Whether they are learning how compound interest can make them millionaires, calculating the cost of remodeling...
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Redefining Progress

Have and Have-Not

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Is there a correlation between a country's wealth and the extent of its ecological footprint? What exactly constitutes an ecological footprint, and how does one country stack up against the rest? This is a unique lesson to incorporate...
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Visa

Buy, Sell or Hold?: An Overview of Investing

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Break down the often-daunting topic of the stock market with this resource, in which pupils learn basic terminology regarding buying and selling stocks, as well as the factors that influence how much return individuals can receive...
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Visa

A Way to Wealth: Understanding Interest and Investments

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Money motivates! Help young bankers understand how math plays a part in investing. Give learners math practice while instilling real-world financial literacy skills.
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Curated OER

Why People Trade

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars explore the role of government in the economy market. In this economics lesson, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of what they are...
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Curated OER

Learning to Spend, Learning to Give

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore the concept of personal finances. In this personal finances lesson plan, students identify their income and expenses. Young scholars create a budget for their spending, saving, investing, and donating habits....
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Curated OER

What is a Stock? or, Who Owns McDonald's?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners explore profit and risk. In this economics lesson, students read about McDonald's and Nabisco stock and discuss the risks and rewards of stock ownership. Printable worksheets ask questions about rights of stock owners and the...
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Curated OER

Save Our Soil

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the need for good farm land and reasons for the disappearance of agricultural areas. They brainstorm environmental friendly decisions and soil conservation. In their community, students explore new land developments...
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Curated OER

A Trillion Here...A Trillion There

For Students 6th - 8th
In this working with large numbers worksheet, students are given the finance statistics for the US and the world for the 2006-2007 year. Students solve 11 problems including finding averages and percentages for the given statistics and...
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Curated OER

Innovation in a Bag

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students create a business plan to start up their own business. In this algebra lesson, students think of a product they can produce and sell. They create on paper what they should do and then put into practice creating a mock business.
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Rice University

Galileo Project: Christoff Rudolff

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University provides ten fields of biographical data which are compiled for you. The fields of data collected include, but are not limited to, dates (birth/death), father (occupation/wealth),...
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Rice University

Galileo Project: Henry Briggs

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University provides ten fields of biographical data which are compiled about Henry Briggs, including dates (birth/death), father (occupation/wealth), nationality, education, religion, scientific...
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Rice University

Galileo Project: Edmond Halley

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Galileo Project of Rice University provides ten fields of biographical data are compiled related to Edumond Halley, including dates (birth/death), father (occupation/wealth), nationality, education, religion,...
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Rice University

Galileo Project: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University provides ten fields of biographical data are compiled regarding Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz including dates (birth/death), father (occupation/wealth), nationality, education, religion,...
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Rice University

Galileo Project: Blaise Pascal

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University provides information on ten fields of biographical data which are compiled regarding Blaise Pascal, including dates (birth/death), father (occupation/wealth), nationality, education,...
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Rice University

Galileo Project: Abraham De Moivre

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University provides ten fields of biographical data are compiled regarding Abraham de Moivre, including dates (birth/death), father (occupation/wealth), nationality, education, religion,...
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Rice University

Galileo Project: Pierre Fermat

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University provides information on ten fields of biographical data which are compiled regarding Pierre Fermat, including dates (birth/death), father (occupation/wealth), nationality, education,...