Lesson Plan

Money & Saving (Lesson Plan, Bigs Only)

Hand your teen a pay stub, a calculator and a goal, and watch money stop being a mystery.

This five-day personal finance unit for grades 7 and 8 works for one teen or a whole class. Each day follows the same rhythm: Reading, Writing and Words, Science and Math, Hands-on Project, then Friday Show and Tell. Your child or students read Benjamin Franklin's The Way to Wealth, argue whether a penny saved is still a penny earned, race simple against compound interest with the Rule of 72, decode a pay stub, compare unit prices on a real grocery receipt and build a 50/30/20 budget. Friday ends with a pitch for a real savings goal, complete with a timeline and a compound growth chart.

Perfect for homeschool families, middle school math and life skills classes, and financial literacy units.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days with step-by-step plans
• Parts of a Pay Stub label sheet with worked answers
• The Doubling Race compound interest lab sheet
• Sequence cards, a cut-and-sort page and an argument writing page
• Word search, crossword, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards, a book list and a certificate

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