Content Area: Career Education and Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

 

Index: 9.2E Grade 8 CPI 1

 

Standard: 9.2 - Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

 

Strand: E - Consumer and Personal Finance

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 -  The student will identify and demonstrate personal finance skills in checkbook maintenance and investing.

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       Resources: http://www.nfte.com/startaprogram/curriculum/

 

·      Preparing A Bank Reconciliation

 

·       Teacher demonstrates the correct way to write a check and record information on a check stub.  Give students several transactions to complete by writing checks and stubs.  What are other methods of paying bills and recording the information?  Why does there need to be a record of expenditures and deposits?

 

·       Students read books such as

    From Beads to Bank Notes - The Story of Money by Neale S. Godfrey;

    Check it Out - The Book about Banking by Neale S. Godfrey;

    Taking Stock - The World of Business by Neale S. Godfrey;

    The Everything Kids Money Book by Diane Mayr

    Barron's Money Sense for Kids by Hollis Page Harman, P.F.P.

    The Motley Fool's Investment Guide for Trends by David and Tom Gardner

    How to be a Teenage Millionaire by T.R. Adams, Rob Adams

    The Teenage Investor by Timothy Olsen

 

    After reading the book, students prepare a multimedia presentation to highlight key information from the book.  Students give presentations to class.

 

·       Resources:     Money Kids Page - http://www.kidsmoney.org/kids.htm

                           Econ Ed Link - Climbing the Saving Mountain - http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM515&page=teacher