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Table of Contents

Financial Psychology

Making Choices ................................................................................................................... 2

Same or Different ................................................................................................................ 3

Needs & Wants I ................................................................................................................. 4

Needs and Wants II ............................................................................................................. 5

Needs & Wants Get Tricky .................................................................................................. 6

Numbers Mean “How Many” ............................................................................................. 7

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie ............................................................................................. 8

Needs & Wants (Collage) .................................................................................................... 9

What Do I Really Need? .................................................................................................... 10

Show Me the Money ......................................................................................................... 11

Setting Financial Goals ...................................................................................................... 12

Lifestyle ............................................................................................................................. 13

Goals and Choices ............................................................................................................. 14

What Is the Advertisement Saying? .................................................................................. 15

Accounts, Savings, & Budgets

First, Then. Now, Later. ..................................................................................................... 17

........................................................................................................................................... 17

Growing Waiting Muscles ................................................................................................. 18

Three-Choice Drawing ...................................................................................................... 19

Rolling the Dice: Less or More .......................................................................................... 20

I Want It Now! ................................................................................................................... 21

SMART Money System: I ................................................................................................... 22

Growing Money ................................................................................................................ 23

Is This a Savings Emergency? ............................................................................................ 24

Savings .............................................................................................................................. 25

SMART Money System: II .................................................................................................. 26

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Plan to Save ....................................................................................................................... 27

How Can My Savings Grow? ............................................................................................. 28

Credit, Debts, & Loan

Borrow, Trade, Gift Game ................................................................................................. 30

Trade Game ....................................................................................................................... 31

“Thank You” Jar ................................................................................................................. 32

Is it Mine or Should We Share?......................................................................................... 33

The Good Borrower .......................................................................................................... 34

Trust .................................................................................................................................. 35

Is This a Fair Trade? ........................................................................................................... 36

Giving Back ........................................................................................................................ 37

The Giving Tree ................................................................................................................. 38

Safe Lending ...................................................................................................................... 39

No Fair! .............................................................................................................................. 40

Helpful Gifts: I ................................................................................................................... 41

I.O.U. ................................................................................................................................. 42

Want to Trade? ................................................................................................................. 43

Helpful Gifts: II .................................................................................................................. 44

Income, Careers, Business & Entrepreneurship

Different Roles in Our Community ................................................................................... 46

Community Helper Buddies .............................................................................................. 47

Helpers Tour the City: I ..................................................................................................... 48

Earning Money .................................................................................................................. 49

Community Helpers: I ....................................................................................................... 50

Helper Wall ....................................................................................................................... 51

Old Rhymes & Community Jobs ........................................................................................ 52

Helpers Tour the City: II .................................................................................................... 53

Careers .............................................................................................................................. 54

Community Helpers: II ...................................................................................................... 55

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The Business Plan .............................................................................................................. 56

Making Sales ..................................................................................................................... 57

Know Your Strengths ........................................................................................................ 58

Share Your Strengths ........................................................................................................ 59

Risk Management & Insurance

Safe Choices & Consequences .......................................................................................... 61

Consequences: Good or Bad ............................................................................................. 62

Keeping Safe Is Good for Everyone ................................................................................... 63

Pictures of Playground Safety ........................................................................................... 64

Making Choices ................................................................................................................. 65

Playground Safety Posters ................................................................................................ 66

Safety Walk ....................................................................................................................... 67

Safety Drills ....................................................................................................................... 68

Safety Circles ..................................................................................................................... 69

All about Risks ................................................................................................................... 70

Don’t Risk It! ...................................................................................................................... 71

Risk It! ............................................................................................................................... 72

Risk ‘n’ Roll Game ............................................................................................................. 73

Look before You Leap ....................................................................................................... 74

What Happens Next? ........................................................................................................ 75

What’s Your Story? ........................................................................................................... 76

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Making Choices

Level / Duration Pre-K / 45-60 minutes

Lesson Overview Students will sing a song and play a Circle game about wants.

Big Ideas We may need to choose between two things we want. Different people want different things.

Essential Questions At the end of the lesson, students should be able to answer the

following:

What things would you choose to have? What are some things you want?

Skills Recognize choices and choice-making. Identify and label wants. Awareness of others’ perspectives and desires. Choose between two desired activities. Learn song as reminder about need to make choices.

Vocabulary Choose/choice — deciding between two or more possibilities.

Materials Crayons Engaging classroom materials in locations familiar to students

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Same or Different

Level / Duration Pre-K / 60 minutes

Lesson Overview Students will practice “same” and “different” concepts by making and playing a flip-and-match game.

Big Ideas Different people want different things.


following:


Skills Identify and label wants. Awareness of others’ perspectives and desires. Learn songs about same and different.

Vocabulary Same Different

Materials Pre-cut 6” x 8” card stock (two pieces per student) Crayons

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Needs & Wants I


Lesson Overview Students will practice the concept of needs and wants by singing a song and making a collage.

Big Ideas We may need to choose between two things we want.


following:


Skills Identify and label needs and wants. Choose between two desired activities. Learn song lyrics to Needs & Wants song.

Vocabulary Want Need

Materials Needs & Wants song Magazines and advertisement flyers Paper 11” x 17” for each student Scissors Glue

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Needs and Wants II

Level / Duration Kindergarten / 45 minutes

Lesson Overview Ask students and parents to cut out magazine pictures depicting wants and needs to send to school for this class activity. Students will visually graph pictures of needs and wants.

Big Ideas We may need to choose between needs and wants.


following:

Which are more important: needs or wants?

Skills Identify needs. Identify wants. Model choosing between needs and wants.

Vocabulary Need — something you must have for survival. Want — something you would like to have.

Materials Chart paper or whiteboard Markers, crayons, or pencils (for each students) Picture sets of wants and needs

(from magazine pictures sent in from families)

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Needs & Wants Get Tricky


Lesson Overview Students will identify the differences between needs and wants, and the priorities of adults and children. Students will role-play spending situations as adults and as children.

Big Ideas Adults and children may want different things.


following:

Which are more important: needs or wants? What are some things you want to have as adults? What are some things you will need to have as adults? What are some things you want to have right now? What are some things you need to have right now?

Skills Identify needs. Identify wants. Model choosing between needs and wants. Identify things children need. Identify things adults need. Identify things children want. Identify things adults want.

Vocabulary Same Different Wants — things people would like to have to make their live better

in some way. Needs — things people must have to survive.

Materials Hats Play money Poster paper

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Numbers Mean “How Many”


Lesson Overview Students will identify numbers as symbols for quantity. They will use coins in a 1:1 correspondence activity to identify the quantity that each coin represents.

Big Ideas Numbers are a symbol for quantity.


following:

What do number mean?

Skills Use numbers 1 to 10 to symbolize the correct amount of objects/tokens.

Vocabulary Numeral Quantity How many?

Materials Pennies (or representations of) Poster paper

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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Level / Duration Kindergarten/ 30 minutes

Lesson Overview Students will explore sequencing by putting the events of a story in order. Then the students will explore the ordination of wants and needs.



following:

Which are more important: needs or wants? What are some things you want to have right now? What are some things you need to have right now?

Skills Identify wants. Ordinal order.

Vocabulary First Second Next Then Wants

Materials Paper strips 17” x 3” Story book: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Copies of pictures for each student

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Needs & Wants (Collage)

Level / Duration 1st Grade / 60 minutes

Lesson Overview Students will explore needs versus wants by making a collage.



following:

What things are important to you to have in the future? What is the most important thing for you to have in the future? What is least important?

Skills Choosing needs and wants. Evaluating the importance of different needs and wants.

Vocabulary Nee Want Important

Materials Poster paper Pre-cut magazine images Glue

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What Do I Really Need?


Lesson Overview Students will practice the concepts of needs and wants through drawing pictures and sorting them on a T-chart.

Big Ideas In the future, we may need to choose between things we need and things we want.

Some needs and wants are more important than others.


following:

What things are important for you to have in the future? What is the most important thing for you to have in the future? What is the least important?

Skills Choosing needs and wants. Evaluating the importance of different needs and wants.

Vocabulary Need — something you must have for survival. Want — something you would like to have.

Materials Chart paper or whiteboard Markers Post-It notes (two per student)

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Show Me the Money


Lesson Overview Students will practice identifying money and its value.

Big Ideas Money is a symbol for value.


following:

What is money?

Skills Representing the value of different denominations of money.

Vocabulary Money Value

Materials Money checked out from the office (enough for each student to hold a coin or bill OR

Large paper cut-outs of $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 bills Large paper cut-outs of a penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and

half-dollar

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Setting Financial Goals

Level / Duration 2nd Grade / 45 minutes

Lesson Overview Students are going to learn about steps to making goals, and will practice setting a goal for themselves.

Big Ideas We can make goals to help us create the lifestyles we want.


following:

What goals will help you get the lifestyle you want?

Skills Set goals that will help achieve a lifestyle.

Vocabulary Goals

Materials Setting Financial Goals (Student Guide) Scrap paper Crayons, markers, and pencils

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Lifestyle


Lesson Overview Students will learn about lifestyle choices and make visual representations.

Big Ideas We can choose the kind of lifestyle we want.


following:

What kind of lifestyle do you want?

Skills Imagine and describe a desired lifestyle.

Vocabulary Lifestyle

Materials Magazines Construction paper or poster paper Scissors Glue Writing utensils

BF-12

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Goals and Choices


Lesson Overview Students will learn about making choices and setting goals to achieve a desired lifestyle.

Big Ideas Some goals are more important to us than others.


following:

What kind of lifestyle do you want? What goals will help you get the lifestyle you want? What goals are most important to you? What goals are least important to you? How do you think of money?

Skills Imagine and describe a desired lifestyle. Set goals that will help achieve a lifestyle. Rank the importance of goals in order to achieve a lifestyle. Understand different attitudes toward money. Understand different effects of attitudes toward money.

Vocabulary Money

Materials Flowchart design

BF-13

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What Is the Advertisement Saying?


Lesson Overview Students will learn about advertisements and attitudes about money.

Big Ideas The way we see money affects the decisions we make.


following:

What kind of lifestyle do you want? How do you think of money?

Skills Imagine and describe a desired lifestyle. Understand different attitudes toward money. Understand different effects of attitudes toward money.

Vocabulary Money Lifestyle Choices

Materials Markers or crayons Dry-erase board or chart paper Poster paper

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Accounts,

Savings & Budgets

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First, Then. Now, Later.


Lesson Overview Students will learn about doing what needs to be done first, before doing what we want to do as fun.

Big Ideas Sometimes we need to wait to get what we want. There are lots of things we can do to help ourselves wait.


following:

Why would I need to wait (save)? How can I wait for what I want?

Skills Identify reasons to wait. Identify strategies that make waiting easier.

Vocabulary Wait Reward Now Later

Materials Crayons

BA-1

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Growing Waiting Muscles


Lesson Overview Students will practice waiting through building “waiting muscles” — physical stretching poses.

Big Ideas Sometimes we need to wait to get what we want. There are lots of things we can do to help ourselves wait.


following:

Why would I need to wait (save)? How can I wait for what I want?

Skills Identify reasons to wait. Identify strategies that make waiting easier.

Vocabulary Wait Reward Now Later Step Goal

BA-2

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Three-Choice Drawing


Lesson Overview Students will draw a series of pictures that represent choices about spending now or saving for later.

Big Ideas Sometimes we need to wait to get what we want.


following:

Why would I need to wait?

Skills Identify reasons to wait.

Vocabulary Wait Now Later

BA-3

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Rolling the Dice: Less or More


Lesson Overview Students will learn about more or less through a story time, charting, and a dice game.

Big Ideas Saving can help us earn something bigger than what we could get now.


following:

How can saving to get something later be better than having something now?

Skills Identify less and more.

Vocabulary Less More

Materials Storybook about “more or less” Large set of dice

BA-4

BA-2

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I Want It Now!


Lesson Overview Students will use counting cubes and gummy bears to practice the concept of waiting for something more later.

Big Ideas Saving can help us earn something bigger than what we could get right now.


following:

How can saving to get something later be better than having something now?

Skills Choose between having something small now and having something bigger later.

Vocabulary Now Later Savings

Materials Counting cubes (20 per student) One or two bags of 100% juice Gummy Bears Enough paper cups to hold the Gummy Bears

BA-5

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SMART Money System: I


Lesson Overview Students will use a classroom store and Smart Dollars earned to simulate using the banking system and making purchases. This is designed to be an experiential series of lessons.

Big Ideas Saving can help us earn something bigger than what we could get now.


following:

Why would I want to save? How do I save for something later?

Skills Define savings. Define “now” and “later.” Give examples of things we must save for now in order to have

later. Choose between having something small now and having

something bigger later.

Vocabulary Now Later Less More Savings

Materials Small prizes or privileges labeled with price values.

BA-6

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Growing Money

Level / Duration 1st Grade/ 40 minutes

Lesson Overview Students will develop an understanding of how saving money will allow their financial wellbeing to grow.

Big Ideas Saving helps us have enough money to buy things we know we will need and want in the future.


following:

Why would I want to save money? Why is it important to have extra money?

Skills Define savings

Vocabulary Savings Money

BA-7

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Is This a Savings Emergency?

Level / Duration 1st Grade/ 30 minutes

Lesson Overview Students will learn about making spending and savings choices regarding emergencies.

Big Ideas In the future, we may need to choose between things we need and things we want.

Some needs and wants are more important than others.


following:

What things are important to you to have in the future? What is the most important thing for you to have in the future? What is the least important?

Skills Evaluate the importance of different needs and wants.

Vocabulary Need Want Important Money Value

Materials Board or chart paper Markers

BA-8

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Savings

Level / Duration 2nd Grade/ 45 minutes

Lesson Overview Students will learn about savings as having to make choices and sometimes waiting for something later with a bigger pay-off.

Big Ideas In some situations, it’s better to wait; in other situations, it’s better to act now.


following:

Why would I want to save? Why would I want to spend?

Skills Explain reasons to save. Explain reasons to spend.

Vocabulary Save Spend

BA-9

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SMART Money System: II

Level /

Duration

2nd Grade/ 240 minutes

Lesson Overview Students will use a classroom store and Smart Dollars earned to simulate using the banking system and making purchases. This is designed to be an experiential series of lessons.

Big Ideas eBanks and financial institutions help us make our savings grow. In some situations, it’s better to wait; in other situations, it’s better

to act now. Planning to save money makes it easier to remember to save.


following:

How

Skills Explain reasons to save. Explain reasons to spend. Explain how banks/financial institutions help us save money. Explain how banks/financial institutions help us grow money. Explain the difference between checking and savings accounts. Identify ways to plan for saving.

Vocabulary Bank Budgeting

Materials Small prizes or privileges labeled with price values.

BA-10

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Plan to Save


Lesson Overview Students will learn about reasons for saving and reasons for spending.

Big Ideas Planning to save money makes it easier to remember to save.


following:

Why would I want to save? Why would I want to spend?

Skills Explain reasons to save. Explain reasons to spend. Identify ways to plan for saving.

Vocabulary Save Spend

Materials Bingo chips (enough for each student to have ten)

BA-11

28


How Can My Savings Grow?


Lesson Overview Students will learn about banks and financial institutions and their roles in savings and investments by playing a game.

Big Ideas Banks and financial institutions help us make our savings grow.


following:

How can my savings grow? What kinds of savings are there?

Skills Explain how banks/financial institutions help us save money. Explain how banks/financial institutions help us grow money. Explain the difference between checking and savings accounts. Identify ways to plan for saving.

Vocabulary Bank Budgeting Checking account

Materials Chart paper or board 11” x 17” paper Crayons

BA-12

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Credit, Debts, & Loans


Credit, Debt

& Loans

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Borrow, Trade, Gift Game


Lesson Overview Students will learn about borrowing, gifts, and trades with a chant and a game.

Big Ideas When we borrow something, we must give it back. When we trade things, we give something and get something in

return. When we give a gift, we give something and don’t get it back.


following:

What is borrowing? What is trading? What is a gift? What things would I borrow, trade, or give?

Skills Identify types of giving and receiving.

Vocabulary Borrow Lend Trade Gift

Materials Paper strips in three different colors Volunteers or teacher assistants

BC-1

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Trade Game


Lesson Overview Students will explore the concept of trades, using favorite classroom items and drawing pictures.

Big Ideas We should only lend people our things if we believe they will return them.

A trade is fair when both people get something of equal value. We can give our extras to help people who don’t have enough.


following:

When would you let someone borrow your things? What is a fair trade? How can giving help other people?

Skills Identify good situations for borrowing. Identify fair trades. Identify reasons to give.

Vocabulary Lending Fairness Helpful Extra Enough

Materials Storybook (i.e., The Story about Ping by Flack & Wiese http://www.bookworm.com/p/the-story-about-ping-191070

or other story about choices and consequences Index cards Markers, crayons, or colored pencils Engaging classroom with learning toys accessible to students

BC-2

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“Thank You” Jar


Lesson Overview Students will identify qualities of a good friend and draw a picture representing a good friend’s actions.

Big Ideas When we give a gift, we give something and don’t get it back.


following:

What is a gift? What things would I borrow, trade, or give?

Skills Practice giving.

Vocabulary Borrow Trade Gift Trust

BC-3

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Is it Mine or Should We Share?

Level / Duration Pre-K/ 30 minutes

Lesson Overview Students will learn about things that are good to share, and things that should not be shared.

Big Ideas When we borrow something, we must give it back. When we trade things, we give something and get something in

return. When we give a gift, we give something and don’t get it back.


following:

What things would I borrow, trade, or give?

Skills Practice borrowing, trading, and giving.

Vocabulary Borrow Trade Gift

BC-4

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The Good Borrower


Lesson Overview Students will learn about good borrowers by watching the teacher perform skits.

Big Ideas We should only lend someone our things if we believe they will return them.


following:

When would you let someone borrow your things?

Skills Identify good situations for borrowing.

Vocabulary Lending

BC-5

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Trust


Lesson Overview Students will practice the idea of trust through borrowing and lending.



following:

When would you let someone borrow your things?

Skills Identify good situations for borrowing.

Vocabulary Lending

BC-6

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Is This a Fair Trade?


Lesson Overview Students will use dramatic role-play questions to explore the idea of “fair” trades.

Big Ideas A trade is fair when both people get something of equal value.


following:

What is a fair trade?

Skills Identify fair trades.

Vocabulary Fairness

BC-7

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Giving Back


Lesson Overview Students will develop an understanding the emotions and rewards associated with charity.

Big Ideas We can give our extras to help people who don’t have enough.


following:

How can giving help other people?

Skills Identify reasons to give.

Vocabulary Helpful Extra Enough

Materials Ice cream coupons (Student Guide)

BC-8

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The Giving Tree


Lesson Overview Students will work with a Study Buddy (usually an upper-grade students) as a partner to read and analyze The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.


A trade is fair when both people get something of equal value. We can give our extras to help people who don’t have enough.


following:

How can giving help other people?

Skills Identify reasons to give.

Vocabulary Gift

Materials The Giving Tree story Study Buddies Poster paper Drawing utensils Pre-cut 6” x 8” colored paper

BC-9

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Safe Lending


Lesson Overview Students will learn about the risk of not getting things back when they are borrowed.

Big Ideas When we lend our things, we risk not getting them back.


following:

Why is it important to be a good borrower?

Skills Recognize possible risk

Vocabulary Risk

Materials Sheets of notebook paper and writing utensils planted inside a movable desk

BC-10

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No Fair!


Lesson Overview Students will work with the idea of trades of foods and services with visual cards.

Big Ideas We can trade goods and services. Trades should be fair.


following:

What would be a fair trade of goods and services?

Skills Recognize possible risk. Identify value of goods and services.

Vocabulary Risk Goods Services

BC-11

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Helpful Gifts: I


Lesson Overview Students will learn about giving gifts that people need or want.

Big Ideas We can give goods or services as gifts.


following:

What kind of goods or services would help people?

Skills Identify the value of goods and services.

Vocabulary Risk Goods Services

Materials Construction paper Glue stick Curling ribbon Plain white paper Crayons and pencils

BC-12

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I.O.U.


Lesson Overview Students will learn about consequence of owing by practicing borrowing scenarios.

Big Ideas If we borrow something, we owe it back.


following:

What could happen if we don’t give back what we owe?

Skills Identify characteristics of responsible borrowing.

BC-13

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Want to Trade?


Lesson Overview Students will practice trading and learn about the value of items.

Big Ideas We need to understand people’s needs and wants to make fair trades.


following:

How can we make a fair trade?

Skills Identify characteristics of responsible borrowing. Identify others’ needs and wants.

Vocabulary Owe Need Want

Materials Poster paper

BC-14

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Helpful Gifts: II


Lesson Overview Students will practice giving by recognizing others’ needs and wants.

Big Ideas We need to understand people’s needs, to give helpful gifts.


following:

How can we be sure that we are giving a helpful gift?

Skills Identify characteristics of responsible borrowing. Identify others’ needs and wants.

Vocabulary Owe Want Need

Materials WANTS and GIVING cards (Student Guide)

BC-16

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Income, Careers, & Business

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Income, Careers, Business &

Entrepreneurship

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Different Roles in Our Community


Lesson Overview Students will explore job roles in the community through discussion, drama, and play.

Big Ideas There are different kinds of jobs and businesses.


following:

Why do people have jobs or businesses? What are the different kinds of jobs or businesses?

Skills Identify cause/effect relationship of working at a job/business and earning money.

Vocabulary Job Business

Materials Pop-out Community Buddy The People in Our Town song lyrics Classroom drama or puppet collections

(whatever is standard in the classroom) Brown paper bag for each child (with cutting directions) Crayons

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Community Helper Buddies


Lesson Overview This lesson is an experiential learning activity, intended to be conducted over time and using multiple exposures. Students will learn the many factors involved in being a productive, contributing member of society through this experiential activity. This project will work best on a day when you have extra adult volunteers or older student “reading buddies” in the classroom for support.

Big Ideas We do various tasks as ways to earn money. There are different kinds of jobs and businesses.


following:

What are some different kinds of jobs or businesses?

Skills Identify jobs and businesses.

Vocabulary Job Business Helper

Materials Pop-out Community Buddy Zip-top plastic bags Markers

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Helpers Tour the City: I


Lesson Overview Students will work together to make scripts for phrases that people in different jobs might say. They will then use Community Buddies to act out the jobs, using the scripts.

Big Ideas We do various tasks as a way to earn money. There are different kinds of jobs and businesses.


following:

What are different kinds of jobs or businesses?

Skills Identify jobs and businesses.

Vocabulary Job Business Helper

Materials Classroom set of Community Buddy pop-outs Tools, props, uniforms of different kinds of jobs Scripts for Community Buddies will be brainstormed by the class as

a practice session, but free play also will be encouraged.

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Earning Money


Lesson Overview Students will practice deciding how to spend money.

Big Ideas We do various tasks as ways to earn money. There are different kinds of jobs and businesses.


following:

What are the different kinds of jobs or businesses?

Skills Identify jobs and businesses. Demonstrate relationship between money and work.

Vocabulary Job Business Money Earn

Materials Classroom set of Community Buddies Cup of ten pennies (for each child) Pictures of typical snack items labeled with price in pennies

BI-4

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Community Helpers: I


Lesson Overview This lesson is an experiential learning activity, intended to be conducted over time and using multiple exposures. Students will learn the many factors involved in being a productive, contributing member of society through this experiential activity.

Big Ideas We can earn money by having a job or starting a business.


following:

How can I earn money?

Skills Identify money-earning activities.

Vocabulary Work Job Money

Materials Pop-out Community Buddies Zip-top plastic bags Markers Smart Money to enact payment during dramatic play

(Instructor Guide) Shoeboxes or other boxes that can be used to create buildings

(may be brought from home) Paper and art supplies to decorate the boxes

BI-5

51


Helper Wall


Lesson Overview Students will identify ways that they can help others and ways that they may need help.

Big Ideas Everyone is interested in different activities.


following:

What am I interested in doing?

Skills Identify age-appropriate money-earning activities. Identify personal interests.

Vocabulary Helper Skill Strength

Materials Hole punch Yarn Flashcards with skill words

BI-6

52


Old Rhymes & Community Jobs


Lesson Overview Students will generate their personal ideas about jobs by free drawing and making associations to nursery rhymes that are read aloud.

Big Ideas We can earn money by having a job or starting a business. Everyone is interested in different activities.


following:

How do jobs help the community?

Skills Identify age-appropriate money-earning activities. Identify personal interests.

Vocabulary Work Interest

Materials Crayons Drawing paper

BI-7

53


Helpers Tour the City: II


Lesson Overview Students will explore the importance of different jobs through a dramatic role-play.

Big Ideas We can earn money by having a job or starting a business.


following:

How can I earn money? What am I interested in doing?

Skills Identify personal interests.

Vocabulary Work Interest

Materials Community Buddies cutouts

BI-8

54


Careers


Lesson Overview Students will develop an understanding of how their skills and interests can be aligned to a career.

Big Ideas We can choose a job or business that we would enjoy and that relates to our interests.


following:

What type of job or business appeals to me?

Skills Identify jobs that match personal preferences.

Vocabulary Service Product

BI-9

55


Community Helpers: II


Lesson Overview This lesson is an experiential learning activity, intended to be conducted over time and using multiple exposures. Students will learn the many factors involved in being a productive, contributing member of society through this experiential activity.

Big Ideas We can choose a job or business that we would enjoy and that relates to our interests.


following:


Skills Identify jobs that match personal preferences. Identify jobs that provide a service, create a product, or both.


Materials Pop-out Community Buddies Zip-top plastic bags Markers Smart Dollars (Instructor’s Guide) Shoeboxes or other boxes that can be used to create buildings

(may be brought from home) Paper and art supplies to decorate boxes

BI-10

56


The Business Plan


Lesson Overview Students will create a basic business plan and explore the possibilities of entrepreneurship.

Big Ideas A job or a business can perform a service, create a product, or both.


following:




BI-11

57


Making Sales


Lesson Overview Students will develop an understanding of basic business functions.

Big Ideas A job or a business can perform a service, create a product, or both.


following:




Materials Any materials needed for student business

BI-12

58


Know Your Strengths


Lesson Overview Students will look inwardly to identify skills and talents that make them unique and valuable.

Big Ideas We can choose our professions or businesses, based on our strengths.


following:

What are my personal strengths? What jobs or businesses might I be good at doing?

Skills Identify jobs that match personal strengths.

Vocabulary Strengths

BI-13

59


Share Your Strengths


Lesson Overview Students will understand the benefits of basic networking by sharing their talents to the benefit of others.

Big Ideas We can choose our professions or businesses based on our strengths.


following:

What are my personal strengths? What jobs or businesses might I be good at doing?

Skills Identify jobs that match personal strengths.

Vocabulary Strengths

BI-14

60



Risk Management

& Insurance

61


Safe Choices & Consequences


Lesson Overview Students will learn about safe choices through reading storybooks and playing a game.

Big Ideas Making good choices will help keep you safe.


following:

What things are safe? What things are unsafe? What choices help us stay safe?

Skills Identify safe and unsafe choices. Identify cause and effect scenarios.

Vocabulary Safe Unsafe

Materials Red and green strips of paper (enough for each child to have a set) Blank white paper Paper plates or recycled cardboard

BR-1

62


Consequences: Good or Bad


Lesson Overview Students will use a flowchart to help them see the consequence of different decisions.

Big Ideas Thinking before acting will help you choose your consequences.


following:

What are the consequences? Are consequences always good or always bad?

Skills Identify cause and effect scenarios. Identify good consequences and bad consequences.

Vocabulary Choice Consequence Neutral — neither good nor bad.

BR-2

63


Keeping Safe Is Good for Everyone


Lesson Overview Students will practice safety signals to help remind themselves and their friends how to keep safe.

Big Ideas Making good choices will help you stay safe.


following:

What choices help us stay safe?

Skills Identify cause and effect scenarios.

Vocabulary Consequence Safe Support

Materials Safe/Unsafe Choices scenarios (i.e., The Story about Ping by Flack and Wiese)

Poster visuals (can use Kindergarten work products from similar lesson as examples): Looking Eyes; Walking Feet; Listening Ears; Helping Hands

BR-3

64


Pictures of Playground Safety


Lesson Overview Students will demonstrate safety knowledge through the creation of posters.

Big Ideas Making safe choices.


following:

What things are safe? What things are unsafe?

Skills Identify good consequences and bad consequences. Identify safe and unsafe choices.

Vocabulary Safe Unsafe Consequence Choices

Materials Crayons

BR-4

65


Making Choices


Lesson Overview This project will work best on a day when you have extra adult volunteers or older student “reading buddies” for support.

Big Ideas Choices have consequences. Consequences can be neutral.


following:

What choices lead to safe consequences? What choices lead to unsafe consequences?

Skills Identify cause/effect scenarios. Identify safe consequences and unsafe consequences.

Vocabulary Choice Good choice Bad choice

BR-5

66


Playground Safety Posters


Lesson Overview Students will act out safety rules on the playground, and will make Playground Safety posters.

Big Ideas Choices have consequences. Consequences can be neutral.


following:



Vocabulary Neutral Consequence Choice

Materials Poster paper Crayons, markers, or colored pencils Hallway display area (temporary)

BR-6

67


Safety Walk


Lesson Overview Students will learn about safe choices and unsafe choices by going on walks and making posters of safety choices

Big Ideas Choices can lead to safe or unsafe consequences.


following:



Vocabulary Safety Choice

BR-7

68


Safety Drills


Lesson Overview Students will practice general safety drills of the school handbook by acting them out.



following:



Vocabulary Safety drills Tornado drill Fire drill Lockdown drill Public space awareness 911

Materials Crayons

BR-8

69


Safety Circles


Lesson Overview Other people to ask might include the physical education teacher or the school counselor.



following:



Vocabulary Safe Unsafe Consequences.

Materials Hula hoops (20 #12 size)

BR-9

70


All about Risks


Lesson Overview Students will learn about consequences or risk through coin, dice, and cards probability.

Big Ideas When we take a risk, there is a chance we will have a good consequence, and a chance we will have a bad consequence.


following:

What risks would you take? When is it a good idea to take a risk?

Skills Identify possible consequences of a risk. Identify wise and unwise risks.

Vocabulary Risk Chance

Materials One coin Pairs of dice for each small group Once deck of playing cards (jokers removed) Small treats — enough for each student to have up to four

BR-10

71


Don’t Risk It!


Lesson Overview Students are going to play a game called Never Have I Ever to explore the concept of negative risk.



following:

What risk would you take? When is it a good idea to take a risk?



Materials Basket of Bingo chips

BR-11

72


Risk It!


Lesson Overview Students will play a game to learn about the concept of positive risk.



following:

What risk would you take? When is it a good idea to take a risk?



Materials Basket of Bingo chips A softball or bean bag

BR-12

73


Risk ‘n’ Roll Game


Lesson Overview Students will play a board game to explore the concepts or risk and predicting consequences.



following:

What risk would you take? When would it be a good idea to take a risk?


Vocabulary Risk

Materials One six-sided die One token per student (counter, coin, or button)

BR-13

74


Look before You Leap


Lesson Overview Students will explore the idea of risk by learning to think before acting, and to make good decisions.

Big Ideas Thinking before acting can help us lower risk.


following:

How can thinking before acting lower risk?

Skills Make choices that lower risk.

Vocabulary Natural consequences Logical consequences

Materials Balloons Balls

BR-14

75


What Happens Next?


Lesson Overview Students will use storytelling to explore the differences between natural consequence and logical consequence.

Big Ideas We can make careful choices by predicting the natural or logical consequences.


following:

How can we predict possible consequences of our choices?

Skills Predict consequences.


Materials A token such as a stuffed animal, talking stick, toy, or hat.

BR-15

76


What’s Your Story?


Lesson Overview Students will write a story about good consequences and bad consequences.

Big Ideas We can make careful choices by predicting the natural or logical consequences.


following:

How can we predict possible consequences of our choices?

Skills Predict consequences.


BR-16

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