These questions are used to discuss opportunity cost, saving, savings goal, and savings plans in the story, The Pickle Path Bathtub.
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 explain why money is important, describe different ways to save money, and create a budget.
In this lesson, students establish short-term and long-term savings goals.
During a unit on financial literacy, this lesson gives students the chance to consider the options that consumers face when dealing with their money and to observe what happens to money when consumers make different decisions about how to use it. 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.