This lesson will help students identify how to make good
decisions which will help them financially in the future.
Students will identify how to take their own wants and work them
into a form of a personal budget. Students will also discuss
various financial scenarios and decide what course of action
would be the best to follow. - Identify various items which are
important to them and determine if they are wants - Develop a
monthly budget based on a given level of income - Define
opportunity cost - Explore various financial situations Students
will identify what items in their lives they want. Students will
then rank these in order of importance and from that develop a
personal monthly budget given a certain income level. Finally,
students will analyze various financial dilemmas and discuss how
they would resolve each dilemma. - U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission - Students learn about how and why to save. - Banking
is INTERESTing - This lesson deals with savings. - What Do You
Want? Worksheet - Students