In this lesson, students use the book, The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze, to learn about spending, collecting, opportunity cost, saving, and speculating.

In this lesson, students will identify sources of income and expenses. They will develop a budget in order to be able to explain the importance of personal financial decisions and how it can affect everyday life.

In this lesson based on From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, students use the experiences of Claudia and Jamie to learn about income, expenses, and the budget process. The book follows the adventures of two runaway children hiding out in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Students complete an activity emphasizing the need for income and the importance of planning and budgets. Students also have an opportunity to update some of the 1967 prices used in the book. The assessment activity has students sort through expenses and income sources to construct their own weekly budget.

In this lesson, students read a story about a young girl named Sara. Sara has always made gifts for her family for special occasions. For Mother's Day, Sara decides she wants to buy a gift for her mother. After reading and discussing the story, students create booklets to illustrate Sara's short-term savings goal and their own short-term savings goal.

With this lesson, students experience creating a budget and starting a simple business. Students use economic terms as well as experience the market or free-enterprise system.

The Hands on Banking? program is an interactive financial-literacy curriculum for students. This teacher?s guide is designed for the Kids? (grades 4 and 5) curriculum of the program. The "Budgeting" section is page 20. The "Savings and Checking" Guide and the "Credit and You" sections are on pages 35 and 60 respectively. The Hands on Banking program was developed to teach both the basics of good money management and the skills needed to create a brighter financial future. The lessons examine financial concepts and decision-making through illustration, real-life problems, and mathematical computation.

In this lesson, students examine the issue of child poverty and factors that contribute to child well-being in North Carolina.

In this lesson, students read a story about a family living in a shelter. The daughter, Livvy, and a friend, Belinda, sell tissue roses. They share their profits. Belinda spends her money; Livvy saves her. Students learn about different places to save their money and the advantages and disadvantages of each. They also learn that spending and saving decisions each have opportunity costs.

Students will research lighthouses of North Carolina using print and digital resources and create a digital presentation on the NC lighthouse of their choice. After studying basic electric circuits, students will use cardboard and Makedo tools to design and build a model of this lighthouse and wire it to light using a kit of electronic supplies. Students will showcase their final products with friends and family using digital photography, Google Presentations and a screencast video on Flipgrid or another platform of the teacher’s choosing. Students will submit a Seesaw documenting their experience with the Design and Engineering Process while building their lighthouse.

In this lesson, students look at saving and spending decisions in 1944 through the eyes of Molly, a nine-year-old growing up during World War II. The lesson uses Meet Molly, An American Girl, by Valerie Tripp. The book is the first in a series of six books that feature Molly in 1944 America. After reading chapter 1, students complete an activity designed to focus on the reason for Victory gardens in 1944. After chapter 2, students complete "Halloween Opportunities," an activity that stresses the similarity between saving and spending decisions in 1944 and 1998 and that teaches opportunity cost. The last activity, "American Factories Go to War" utilizes the nonfiction excerpt in the back of the book to help students understand the large amount of saving that took place during the war because of consumer good shortages.

This student guide is intended for use with the lesson "Money Responsibility." In this lesson, students will understand the concept of being responsible for managing money through accurate record-keeping. Students will understand the effects of theit money-related behavior.

In this lesson, students will understand the concept of being responsible for managing money through accurate record-keeping. Students will understand the effects of theit money-related behavior.

In this lesson, students listen to a personal finance story written and illustrated by an economics magnet school student that has now been published as a book. After an explanation of their own class book project on the topic of personal finance tips has been given, students will discuss sample tips and their meanings. Students will then create an original tip and illustration as a page for the class book to be self-published.

In this lesson, students use the book, Stone Fox, to understand income, capital, saving, taxes, and credit. Stone Fox tells the story of Little Willy, a ten year old who enters a challenging dog-sled race in hopes of winning money to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm.

In this lesson, students read a book about Ryan O'Keefe, a young man who wants a pair of basketball shoes promoted by a basketball star. They learn about spending, saving, opportunity cost, and trade-offs as they study Ryan's decisions throughout the book. Students keep a diary of expenses to track their spending and examine their opportunity costs.

Students are asked to use their knowledge of area and perimeter to develop a blueprint for an eco-friendly “tiny home.” The home must be innovative in design while meeting specific requirements from an architect. In order to stay within these requirements, students must monitor the area of the home, gardens, patios, and other spaces. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

After studying  agricultural products of North Carolina. Students will design a vehicle to transport their "goods" to market.  Student vehicles will be powered by Sphero Mini robots to transport a replicated agricultural “load” a predetermined distance to replicate a journey from farm to market.

This activity introduces students to the context of using cameras during school events, classes and on school property and its relation to the right of privacy under the 4th Amendment. The expectation of privacy may be directly related to where and how information is collected and shared.

In this lesson, students share several chapters of the book Mr. Popper’s Penguins, by Richard and Florence Atwater, to learn about earning money, cost, credit, and spending money wisely. Students complete a worksheet in which they determine how much it costs to care for a pet, complete an activity on credit, and play a saving and spending game.