A culminating project where students create a budget to reach a specific savings goal while managing weekly expenses.

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Exploration of fixed vs. variable expenses. Students categorize potential purchases as needs or wants and record their first week of planned spending.

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A fun and engaging math lesson for 4th graders centered around word problems themed with llamas, covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

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Students learn the mechanical skill of tracking money by maintaining a simple transaction log. They practice data entry and basic arithmetic to keep a running balance of a fictional account.

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Students learn to maintain a transaction ledger by recording income, expenses, and calculating a running balance.

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A 45-minute lesson on ratios and unit rates using a real-world pizza pricing hook. Includes bilingual materials in English and Spanish, tiered guided practice, and visual models to support 6th-grade students of all readiness levels.

Students create a balanced spending plan to reach a specific savings goal while managing essential costs.

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Through a 'Life Happens' simulation, students practice adjusting their spending and making trade-offs between needs and wants.

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Introduces income and expenses through categorization and brainstorming, ending with a personal T-chart.

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Students analyze pre-filled ledgers to identify deficits and 'spending leaks', acting as budget doctors to fix financial health.

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Students act as digital archaeologists to analyze 'Me at the zoo,' the first YouTube video, as a primary historical source, exploring how digital artifacts reflect their era and influence the global economy.

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Students face a deficit scenario caused by an unexpected expense. They must analyze their spending to identify 'wants' that can be cut to balance the budget and return to a positive balance.

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Students differentiate between essential expenses and discretionary spending to prioritize financial health.

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A 45-minute lesson exploring ratios and unit rates through a pizza delivery lens, featuring bilingual English/Spanish support and tiered activities for diverse learners.

This lesson introduces business students to the concept of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) through the historical lens of YouTube's first-ever upload, challenging them to prioritize core functionality over perfection.

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A 45-minute lesson on ratios and unit rates using real-world pizza pricing. Students explore concepts through visual models, partner work, and tiered practice in both English and Spanish.

Teaches students how to record transactions and maintain a running balance using a simple ledger.

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A media literacy lesson where students analyze the evolution of digital media by comparing the first YouTube video, 'Me at the zoo,' to modern content standards. Students explore concepts of user-generated content, monetization, and the commercialization of attention.

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Students define income and expenses and practice the foundational skill of recording transactions in a ledger to maintain a running balance.

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Focuses on financial decision-making by distinguishing essential needs from discretionary wants to fix a deficit.

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