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Economics Personal Finance Minimum Wage Assignment - Poor Man's Budget
This assignment is called the Poor Man's Budget. This assignment forces students to work 40 hours a week at minimum wage. They must calculate their gross pay, taxes, net pay, and all of their expenses. They must choose an actual place to live online, pay transportation, food costs, utilities, etc. They must determine whether they are in debt or not, make changes if needed, and summarize what they learn from the assignment. This Word Document sets up the assignment with students and makes it easy
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7th - 12th
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Student Loan & College Admission Project
This web based research activity challenges students choose colleges they plan to attend college. Students will research admission standards for their colleges and compare those to their own academic successes. After choosing colleges, students will be taken through the loan repayment process. My students every year comment on how they had no idea the costs and requirements of their colleges. More importantly they understand long term loan payback and interest rates. The project lasts abou
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7th - 12th
The Cost of Growing Up: A career focused personal finance project
Recently reformatted as an editable Word document. This project allows students to individually research a future profession and walks them through the math to figure out a monthly paycheck. Once there, the students are able to research a home, car, and other necessities all while determining whether or not they will be able to afford them. This is a great project for those in the state of Georgia attempting to fulfill the fifth grade career requirement or anyone wanting to help give their stu
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4th - 8th
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North America Geography Football Franchise Creation Project
The "Made Up North American Football League" gives students the opportunity to choose a city in the United States or Canada and create a football franchise based there. The project works best in association with a unit on North America, or two units on U.S. geography and Canada geography so they have general background knowledge on regions and cities to draw from. (I have also made a version for a Canada/U.S./Mexico version)*The project file linked is a docx, so you can change examples of my own
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7th - 10th
Sports Franchise - Economics Research Project - with Rubric
Students will enjoy and opportunity to create their own professional sports franchise...everything from creating uniforms, logo's, to mascots. This is a great opportunity to identify basic economic terms. It is also a great cross-curriculum tool as it covers many social science areas-geography, reading, writing, technology, and math. Points to highlight: Supply and Demand, Location, Goods and Services, economic impact, population density (geography), gentrification (geography) social mobility
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8th - 12th
Inflation Internet Search Work Sheet
SIMPLE • EASY • SUB FRIENDLY • INTRO ACTIVITY••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••PERFECT FOR: Personal Finance, Intro to Business, sub plans, supplementation for any business class.FORMAT: PDF Download# OF PAGES: 1This simple activity is a great way to kick off the topic of inflation. Students can do a little investigative research online to find out how the price of things has changed and what was going on historically. The worksheet consists of four columns: a column with items (loaf of br
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Founder Movie 20 Questions (With Answers)
20 questions (with full answers) about the movie, The Founder, that will help students reflect on, understand and analyse what they have just watched.
Can be printed out for students as a double-sided worksheet
Will assist students in becoming more aware of business principles such as franchising; develop a deeper understanding of the characters involved with the McDonald's story; be aware of the similarities and differences between the real story and the movie; and have greater knowledge of
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8th - 11th
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Fair-Trade Chocolate Mini-Research Projects
This lesson includes a culminating project for a mini-unit I like to teach in the weeks in advance of Halloween to raise awareness about the problem of widespread child slavery and trafficking in the global cocoa industry mostly centered in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana.I teach this unit during my semester-long Latin America & the Caribbean unit in which I focus on many world historical products that define social and economic relations internationally such as sugar, bananas, and coffee. The choco
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6th - 12th
Economics & Personal Finance Final Portfolio Project (9-12)
Looking for a nice "capstone" final project for your Economics and Personal Finance class? This Personal Finance Portfolio Project is designed to reflect collaborative student learning from key topics/themes in E&PF. It is intended for students to complete in class, and then take the finished product with them beyond high school to use for years to come! The project is designed in a seven chapter format, with each chapter intended to be released at a different time in order for scaffolding a
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9th - 12th
Developed vs. Undeveloped Nations
Students examine demographic data from over 20 different nations. They examine information such as median age, infant mortality, population growth, and literacy and life expactancy to determine if the nations are Developed or Underdeveloped nations.
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5th - 12th
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Personal Financial Literacy: Inequality Research Paper (New Item)
This paper gives the students the opportunity to research examples of inequality a lot more closely. Seeing as some students might be more or less comfortable researching certain topics over others, this project allows the students to choose from one of four different prompts. The subject of the four prompts are:1. Federal Minimum Wage2. Universal Basic Income3. Inequitable Access to Education4. RedliningAs part of this project, they are required to complete three different elements which are gr
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Franchise WebQuest
A 45-minute webquest activity to help students understand what a franchise is, how to become a franchise owner, and to learn about some of the benefits and challenges that franchises bring to an economy.
Webquest has questions broken down by site with appropriate links embedded into the document. Also contains questions requiring students to analyze and synthesize the information they are gathering and to draw their own conclusions about franshise ownership.
Living on a Dollar Street (Topic 7.1)
Highly engaging and eye-opening activity that will help your students explain the relationship between income and standard of living in core, periphery and semi-periphery countries. Your students will learn to love images, short videos and statistical data with this "Living on a Dollar Street" activity as they compare families living on various incomes in several categories. While I find this activity as a perfect introductory practice at the beginning of Unit 7 (Industrial and Economic Developm
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Unit 7 AP Human Geography Bundle (Industrial and Economic Development)
Stock Investing 101
For high school (and savvy middle school) economics students, Stock Investing 101 is a great tool for students to explore stocks on the Stock Market. This worksheet can be easily edited by simply changing the companies that the students need to investigate in order for it to be used over and over again. Estimated time for student completion: 45-60 minutes
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7th - 12th
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Economically & Culturally- What Life was like in the 1950's
This is a no prep activity. All the research has been done for you.This includes 15 pages of interesting facts about the 1950s along with a timeline. Who was President. What was the average salary?What did a gallon of milk cost? and much more.What were the most popular: baby names, books, movies, songs, fashion trends. What was watched on television. Family & RelationshipsMarriageteenagers1959-Alaska and Hawaii become the forty-ninth and fiftieth states. Each year I have facts about impo
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Create your own Dystopian Society
Each Group will create a Dystopian Society of their own. A Dystopian Society is a vision of an often-futuristic society, which has developed into a negative version of Utopia (perfect society). A Dystopia is characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government. It features various kinds of repressive social control systems, a lack or total absence of individual freedoms and expressions and a state of constant warfare or violence. You will create an original dystopian society. Yo
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Current Events Research Project
Included is the criteria and marking rubric for a current events research project. This is a great Social Studies project for the beginning of the year to generate great discussion and encourage creativity!
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3rd - 12th
Choices, cost-benefit analysis, and opportunity costs
This activity has students each take on one choice out of five possible options for after high school:1) College2) Trade school3) The military4) Getting a job5) Doing service learningEach of them is assigned one of these options. They must research and write down the benefits of this choice, the costs, and then the opportunity costs. After they have done this, students discuss their choices in groups of five (where each student has a different option) to debate what the best option is. But spoil
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Post-High School Career Research Unit
Global Environmental Data Set: Population, Consumption, Climate Change
This editable environmental data chart contrasts population, consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions for the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Africa, China, India, and Asia (minus India and China). Related data including income, poverty, contraceptive use, contrasted government expenditures (education, healthcare, military), conserved natural habitat, and more are included. This data set, and clarifications for its use, are ready to use in lesson plans, debates, classroom activiti
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6th - 12th
Research: A Famous Entrepreneur - Student Worksheet
This worksheet is used in a high school course for Entrepreneurship for students to pick any entrepreneur they admire or want to learn more about. They research about the entrepreneur and business created to answer the questions on the worksheet. This is also a great worksheet to use for a sub day, as needed. Digital download and fully editable!
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9th - 12th
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Cost of Thanksgiving-Inflation
Students will identify what inflation means and how it has affected our Thanksgiving meal costs.
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9th - 12th
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Mortgage Project
In this multi-day project, students get to pick where they want to live and learn about those areas, research homes they want to live in, and run the numbers to find out how much those homes will cost them. This has always been a big hit with my students, as they love thinking about their life after high school! Challenge your students to think big and to learn about the details of mortgages with this engaging project!
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9th - 12th
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Life as an 22 Year Old
Often times my clients (students) say they can envision what their future will look like. They are however only looking on the surface. They are not looking too deep at the things that really matter. With this activity it will make them think of their new reality as a(n) 22 year old. This activity has clients completing it as an individual not as part of a(n) team or group. Just like the real world they will not have a roommate or anyone to rely on. It's all on them.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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How much does it really cost
It's amazing how everyone wants to go and rent their first apartment, purchase their first car, etc. But they have no clue how much things cost and how the prices vary from city to city and state to state. My clients (students) want to be grown and independent but are not sure how to get started. Once we started down the rabbit hole, I quickly learned they had a thirst for this kind of knowledge and empowerment. To aid them in this process, I have organized this worksheet to guide them in unders
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Budgeting Exercises
Help students understand the importance of managing their own financial resources by challenging them to create a budget. Give them a few hypothetical scenarios involving income, expenses, and financial goals. For example, you could ask them to plan a fictional character's monthly expenses, or have them create a budget to save for buying a house.
Trade Games
Through trading games, students can learn about importing and exporting, along with the impact of external forces and trade agreements. Ask students to work in teams and have them trade goods, record their imports and exports, and respond to charges (like tariffs and embargoes).
Cost-Benefit Analysis
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