Middle School Financial Literacy Unit: Earning & Budgeting, Grades 6-8

Five ready-to-teach financial literacy lessons for grades 6-8 that follow money from the paycheck to the budget. Students learn how people earn, what comes out of a paycheck, how to choose between needs and wants, how to build a balanced monthly budget with savings first, and how to rebalance it when life happens.

What's inside

• 83 slides across 5 PowerPoint decks, with speaker notes on 83 of them
• 5 lesson plans, 2 pages each, each with a 25-minute version
• 5 student worksheets, 2 pages each, each with an exit ticket
• 5 answer keys, 5 pages in all, with 30-point grading guides

Answer key included

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