Students learn about creating a realistic budget.
A lesson for students on how to build wealth and navigate your financial future by setting solid and achievable goals with our step-by-step guide. Covers everything from prioritizing objectives and creating SMART goals to budgeting and progress tracking. The tutorial covers various topics such as prioritizing individual financial objectives, whether that involves paying off student loans, purchasing a home, or embarking on investments. The lesson demystifies seemingly daunting financial goals, breaking them down into manageable tasks and highlighting the importance of creating realistic budgets. Students will understand how to allocate funds properly to avoid financial pitfalls, enabling them to take control of their financial destinies.
In this lesson, students learn to figure out their desired financial objectives by planning smart and effective financial goals that will help them achieve their goals. They will set financial goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound.
A lesson on how to balance and prioritize between short-term and long-term financial goals, laying a foundation for a stable and independent financial future. Students learn about setting and prioritizing financial goals through a video lesson. Topics discussed include defining short-term and long-term goals, along with providing real-world examples of each. Students are guided through a step-by-step process of assessing their financial situations, listing, categorizing, and prioritizing goals, as well as developing actionable plans to achieve them. Strategies such as creating budgets, allocating income, and utilizing appropriate financial tools like high-yield savings accounts or tax-advantaged accounts like IRAs or 401(k)s are covered to facilitate understanding of the pathway to financial freedom.
A lesson for students on cash envelope budgeting, commonly known as cash stuffing or envelope stuffing, and how it can transform your financial habits and help you save effectively. Students learn about cash envelope budgeting, a method that involves allocating cash to different spending categories such as groceries, entertainment, and dining out. The lesson covers the fundamentals of setting up a cash envelope system, the psychological impact of spending physical cash versus using cards, and how this method can improve spending habits by encouraging mindfulness and discipline.
Students learn the significance of financial transparency and responsibility through "Loud Budgeting," a trend made popular on TikTok and social media. This personal finance approach involves openly discussing financial constraints and balancing savings with joyful activities. Utilizing budgeting apps and specific-goal savings accounts, students learn effective money management and challenge luxury spending trends. While not new, loud budgeting has gained attention for its blend of humor and seriousness in financial decision-making. By adopting this method, students embrace financial honesty, overcome spending stigmas, and pursue financial stability, inspiring a redefinition of success.
Many college students discover too late that they need to learn how to budget their money. Use this budget lesson plan and worksheet on the subject of college budgeting to help teach related principles.
A car is often one of the more expensive items we purchase.
Read the car advertisements and answer the questions about taking a car loan with this loan worksheet. Learn about down payments and finance charges.
Learn about purchasing and financing a car by filling in the missing financing calculations.
An introductory lesson on basic car insurance terminology. Learn about car insurance monthly premiums and answer the questions about choosing car insurance. Teaching lesson focus is on price comparison, and early understanding of basic liability insurance.
Learn to read the apartment advertisements and answer the questions about choosing an apartment to rent.
Lesson focus is on rent comparison.
A worksheet introducing students to the concept of a mortgage loan. Also introduces the concepts of down payment and closing costs.
Students assess their own financial management skills by taking the money management self-assessment. This assessment will help students identify their current knowledge or money management as well as areas that need instruction regarding money and finances.
Credit cards, credit, and paying interest.
A fundamental understanding of credit cards is important since people often exceed their budget by overspending on their credit card. Use these lessons to help with your understanding of credit and credit cards.
Students must design a cottage and stay within the specified budget. Practice real-word budgeting problems, while actively applying logic and algebraic knowledge. Students must understand evaluating alternatives, cost/benefit analysis, work with a budget, and substantiate their analysis.
Costs for vacation and travel can often be more than we anticipate. Use this lesson to help teach and learn about budgeting and spending for vacation travel.
Worksheets and Lessons with a spending money theme. Learn about spending money issues to help with budgeting lessons.
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Lessons designed to provide an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals of money management. This field entails strategic planning and effective oversight of budgeting, saving, investing, and spending to optimize financial resources. It encompasses key financial practices, including setting clear financial goals, developing and adhering to a practical budget, managing debt efficiently, and proactively planning for future financial needs. These lessons are crafted to equip individuals with the essential knowledge and skills for sound financial decision-making.
This lesson explores the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), focusing on its eligibility, benefits, and how it aids Americans in maintaining a healthy diet affordably. It introduces the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card for essential purchases and addresses the stigma associated with SNAP. Highlighting SNAP's crucial role in ensuring access to nutritious food, the lesson underscores its importance in providing security and supporting personal aspirations during challenging times.
This lesson introduces students to the concept of being responsible for managing money through accurate record-keeping.
This lesson begins with dispelling common myths about millionaires. Students then have an opportunity to give their opinions of wealth in a brainstorming activity that culminates in a formalizing of the definition of wealth through the equation of “assets – liabilities = net worth.”
With financial goals in mind, students work in pairs to complete a budget analysis for a fictitious high school senior who needs to save money. The lesson concludes with a personal budget development activity that uses the information on expenditures that was collected during the two-week data gathering period.
Students work in pairs to participate in a “Track Star” game that illustrates positive and negative spending behaviors. Each pair analyzes the game results, identifies effective and ineffective budgeting behaviors, and generates a list of budgeting principles.
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Teach teens financial fitness now so they have a prosperous future.
If we let students graduate high school without learning key skills like saving and budgeting, we’re doing them a real disservice. These budgeting activities are terrific for a life-skills class, morning meeting discussion, or advisory group unit. Give teens the knowledge they need to make smart financial choices now and in the future!
Before you get into the nitty-gritty of numbers, start with this clever activity that gives kids practice allocating assets in a low-stakes way. They’ll use jellybeans to decide what they need, want, and can truly afford.
Learn more: The Jellybean Game
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has developed lots of tools to help teens and adults learn to manage money. Show kids how to use their Income Tracker, Spending Tracker, Bill Calendar, and Budget Worksheet (all at the link below). Start by having kids consider their current financial situation. Then, give them hypothetical “adult” situations to plan for, with income and expenses drawn from typical people in your area.
Learn more: Budgeting Worksheet Tools
This activity encourages kids to think about purchases, especially major ones. Saving money is just one part of the process—they also need to consider what makes a good purchase and whether they should pay up front or borrow the money instead.
Learn more: Creating a Buying Plan
Most kids probably have no idea how much groceries cost. Use grocery store websites to your advantage, and have kids take a virtual shopping trip. They can plan meals and determine what they’ll need to buy. Or have them start with a weekly food budget and work backwards from there. Either way, remind them to make sure their menus include healthy options.
Learn more: Make a Great Grocery List at WebMD
It’s no secret that things can and do go wrong. Budgeting activities like this one help students learn what to do when unexpected expenses crop up. Students learn about real-world costs and come up with ways to save in advance and adjust on the fly.
Learn more: Savings First Aid Kit
Ask students to list some jobs they think they’d like to do someday. Then, have them research average salaries for those jobs. Encourage them to factor in where they plan to live (salary ranges can be dramatically different across the country). Plus, ask them to think about the education they’ll need to land those jobs, and how long it will take them to earn the money to pay back any loans they’ll have to take.
Learn more: Job Salaries by Field
These days, most people pay with plastic instead of cash. Sometimes they use debit cards, but often they’re credit cards. If you’re going to use them, you need to know how they work. Divide your class into groups, and ask each to research a different question about credit cards, like how they work, what interest they charge, and how to use them safely.
Learn more: Best Credit Cards at Money Under 30
There’s no one right way to set up a budget. Expose students to a variety of models, like proportional budgets, the “pay yourself first” model, the envelope budget, and more. Ask them to think about which kind of person each model works best for and which one they’d choose.
Learn more: 6 Different Ways To Budget Your Money at Young Adult Money
Teens are usually pretty attached to their phones, so show them one way to make really good use of screen time: budgeting apps. Learn how to choose a good one in this video.
When you invest your money in an interest-bearing account, it earns money just by sitting there! That money can really grow over time too. Have students complete budgeting activities like looking up current interest rates and then calculating the potential interest from using those accounts for short and long periods of time. Explore local bank offerings, and take into account things like fees too.
Learn more: Compound Interest Calculator
Kids generally don’t think about all the costs of daily living. Start by brainstorming a big list as a class of all the things people need to spend money on each month: rent or mortgage, car payments, credit card payments, food, entertainment, utilities, Internet access, and more. Break kids into groups and have each group research the average costs of those items in your area. Come back together as a class and add up their findings to see what “living expenses” can really be.
Learn more: Monthly Expenses at Inspired Budget
Everybody’s got dreams, but how realistic are they? That’s where the Jump$tart Reality Check program comes in. By making choices about the future they want, teens will learn what they’ll need to earn to make it happen. The answers might really surprise them.
Learn more: Reality Check—Online Tool for Students
Ask students to reflect on what they truly need to survive vs. things that just make life easier or more fun. Budgeting activities like this can help them identify items they can eliminate when funds get really tight.
Learn more: Needs vs. Wants
If teens don’t learn smart skills like avoiding phishing scams, how to choose good passwords, or identifying fraudulent sites, they can lose everything they save. Take time to learn about the most common fraud issues, and teach them how to be responsible online.
Learn more: 8 Ways To Protect Your Money That All Students Should Know at We Are Teachers
The title pretty much says at it all: By playing this game, students learn how to manage their money and use it responsibly.
Learn more: How Not To Suck at Money
Let students imagine life as an Uber driver. This game is based on actual Uber driver experiences and can be a real eye-opener.
Learn more: The Uber Game
Think of this like Oregon Trail for the modern age. A group of friends is setting off on a cross-country trip, but they’ve got to manage their funds to get where they want to go. Try this one as a group activity so kids have to work together to make smart choices.
Learn more: Hit the Road
Budgeting and saving is important, but students should also learn about the importance of having the right kind of insurance. Because sometimes life really is just a bummer!
Learn more: Bummer
College-bound kids might figure they’ll take loans now and figure out how to pay them back later, but do they really have a handle on the true costs? These interesting online simulations let you pick your school, then walk through four years of potential expenses and income opportunities to find out how you fare in the end.
Learn more: Payback
This online game feels a bit like a graphic novel, and it helps kids learn the basics of budgeting and money management. Explore multiple topics and complete missions to learn valuable skills.
Learn more: Misadventures in Money Management
Managing your own money can feel a little dull, so why not try your hand at managing a multimillion-dollar movie budget instead? This one has levels for both middle and high school students too.
Learn more: Lights, Camera, Budget!
Living on the financial edge is a sad reality for so many people. Show kids what that can feel like with this online simulation. When the game starts, you have no housing and no job and just $1,000 in the bank. Can you get a job and make it to the end of the month?
Learn more: Spent
This cool online game assigns you a career (or lets you choose one) and tailors your experience to your location. You get to make choices about housing and other expenses, and the game calculates how those things fit into a responsible budget.
Learn more: Claim Your Future
This online game guides kids through a shopping trip with financial literacy questions along the way. It’s simple but a terrific way to introduce a discussion on spending, saving, and budgeting.
Learn more: The Biggest Bang for Your Buck
For kids who are sure they can make enough money to live on with their social media accounts, this game might be a bit of a reality check.
Learn more: Influenc’d
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Whether you want to use an Excel spreadsheet or a Google Sheet to define and track a budget — or a fully functional online calculator — the budgeting tools below are among our favorites.
How it works: Maintaining a spreadsheet requires discipline, and creating a spreadsheet from scratch takes time. Save yourself the hassle of setting up rows, columns and formulas by using a pre-made Excel template from Office. Templates include a household expense budget , holiday budget planner and event budget.
What we like: There’s a template for just about every budget situation, from simple to complex. Access Excel online and collaborate with others in the same document at the same time.
Where to get it: Visit templates.office.com and type “ Budgets ” in the search box to find an Excel file to download. Or sign in to Microsoft and edit in your desktop browser.
How it works: Google Drive is a file storage service where users can create, upload and share files. Get 15GB of storage for free or upgrade if that's not enough. The Sheets app for Drive includes pre-made templates, such as an annual budget and monthly budget. Google Sheets also provides annual business budget templates for entrepreneurs who want to track their expenses.
What we like: You can bring your budget with you by logging in to your Google Drive account from your smartphone, tablet or computer. You can also share access to a household budget with other members of your family.
Where to get it: Sign in at google.com/sheets , then browse the template gallery, which you can find at the top right of the page.
How it works: The budget planner enables you to input your monthly income and expenses. With that information, the worksheet shows how your finances compare with the 50/30/20 budget breakdown, which recommends that 50% of your income goes toward needs, 30% toward wants and 20% toward savings and debt repayment. That said, it’s OK if your budget doesn’t perfectly align with the 50/30/20 breakdown. For instance, if you live in an area with a high cost of living, your “needs” bucket may be a little higher, and your “wants” bucket might be less.
What we like: This thorough planner prompts you to consider a wide range of expenses — from life insurance premiums to travel expenses to credit card payments — so you don’t miss anything. You can also see worksheets specific to your situation, whether you’re a college student, parent, homeowner, senior or none of those. We also like that the worksheet compares your budget to the 50/30/20 breakdown.
Where to get it: Learn more about the free budget planner and use it directly on NerdWallet. You can also download the spreadsheet here .
How it works: The Federal Trade Commission offers a website to educate consumers about money, including how to budget. To get started, consult its "Make a Budget" worksheet. Download the PDF and fill in the fields to see whether you’re making more than you spend or spending more than you make.
What we like: Numbers and formulas can make budgeting a turnoff, but this simple worksheet is the furthest thing from intimidating. It’s a great jumping-off point if you’ve never budgeted before.
Where to get it: On Consumer.gov, download the budget PDF from the "Toolbox" tab.
Wherever you find a budget spreadsheet or template, do some research before downloading it. Checking online reviews and only downloading budget templates from websites you trust will help you avoid phishing viruses.
Researching budget spreadsheets and templates is already a solid start in managing your money. If the tools above aren’t a good fit, you’ve got other options — including signing up for a free NerdWallet account to view your cash flow and see how it matches the 50/30/20 budget guidelines .
Learn about the various monthly expenses you’ll want to track .
Try an app that tracks and categorizes your spending. Check out the best budget apps for 2023.
Or, if you need to back up and learn more about budgeting, read how to make a budget .
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When you first begin the project, have students create detailed budgets. They will learn how to modify budgets based on income, expenses, investments, and saving. Afterward, have them make new budgets with the power of compounding included, showing students that they can increase their wealth and adjust their budgets based on ever-changing data and increased cash flow.
Reminding learners that the more detailed a budget is, the better. Focus on the positive and show them how budgets can do more than keep tabs on your spending: they can help build wealth, especially when they prioritize themselves in their spending.
When the project is complete, students present their findings, explaining how they managed to figure out their budgets using the income from their job. They also gain valuable experience in Google Drive, creating and using materials found there.
Many students may not think about how budgets change depending on life circumstances. This project shows kids that different phases of life require varying budgets, and which expenses may come up in those times.
This project is great for your high school students as it results in practical and applicable information for their future. They calculate student loans and even gift expenses and factor those costs into budgets.
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Students determine how to balance their needs and wants when budgeting for household bills.
Budgeting helps ensure that you’ll have enough money for the things you need and the things you want, while still building your savings for future goals.
Teacher guide.
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cfpb_building_block_activities_creating-monthly-household-budget_worksheet.pdf
Note: Please remember to consider your students’ accommodations and special needs to ensure that all students are able to participate in a meaningful way.
By: Author Amanda L. Grossman
Posted on Last updated: May 9, 2024
Need a project-based way to teach your teens about managing a limited set of money?
These budget projects for high school students will help them to self-discover some pretty important money lessons, such as:
And I’m starting the list off with my favorite budget project!
We’re going to start off these budget projects with my very new one, a bill-paying budget project scenario.
Stick around for the other three, too!
Hint: you'll also want to check out my article on how to teach budgeting , from beginner to advanced levels.
Bill-paying is not something we’re born knowing how to do.
And it can feel like a slap in the face when you hit the real world and suddenly must be able to:
Most teenagers never deal with a monthly bill due date until they hit the real world – and at that point, slipping up can mean late fees, services turned off, lower credit scores, etc.
Why not give them a heads-up by working on a bill-paying budget project ahead of time?
Here’s a 30-day budget project, including a printable pack I created and am giving away for free for now (yes, I have plans on charging for this in the future – so go ahead and grab a copy!).
At the beginning of the month, assign your high school students one of four jobs. Based on the job they get, they’ll be assigned a list of bills with due dates, and a blank monthly money calendar.
Let your students know they’ll be paying bills over the course of the next month, according to when they are due. Also, tell the students there will be two paydays for the month, and that they’ll be paid pretend money on these days (here is free printable money for kids ).
They’ll take their bills sheet, and correctly fill in their monthly money calendar with each of the due dates, plus their paydays. They are then responsible for paying each of these bills by the due date (or face a late fee).
You can choose how to keep track of everything, but I would recommend a bill pay pocket chart.
Here’s how I set mine up to test everything out:
These two items were enough for a class of 30 students:
You’ll need an area of the classroom to collect their money and to sign off on their bill-paying sheet to show they’ve paid.
The person in charge of this can be a teacher, teacher’s aide, or student treasurer (you can switch out each week who fulfills this role).
Choose what schedule the bill-paying station will be open, and use the printable bill-pay chart to communicate times/dates.
Students are now in charge of paying their bills, as they become due (or ahead of time). The treasurer/banker is in charge of keeping the bill-paying station running, as well as filling in the one-sheet student ledger for when each person pays and how much they end up paying.
And someone else (perhaps the teacher) is in charge of paying the students on each of the two paydays.
At the end of the month, there is a set of reflection questions for students to fill out.
To increase the “budgeting” part of this, you could come up with things that pretend money can buy.
This would mean that the students need to prioritize their money and make sure they have enough of it left to pay for each bill by its deadline.
For tight budgets, you can use privileges.
Could make things more interesting!
Hint: you'll also want to check out my article on how to teach budgeting .
Have you checked out my article on sample budgets for an 18-year-old ?
One of the things I stress is a teen should create a budget for more than one scenario for their next step in life since an older teen’s life opportunities can change so quickly.
Hint: you could show one of these free financial literacy movies for students as to why they need backup plans.
You can take your own high school students through this, as a project.
Choose a teen budget worksheet for your students (you can get mine, for free, below), and print out three copies each.
Get your students to help you brainstorm some common (and not-so-common) next steps that can happen in a teen’s life.
Either pick three scenarios from the brainstormed list that every student in your entire class will work on, or let your students pick three different scenarios they’re thinking about living out after they graduate.
Hint: one of the scenarios can be to create a teen budget for their life right now. Then, they can choose their ideal scenario to budget around, and finally, their backup plan scenario to budget around.
Help your students to first brainstorm the budget line items for each scenario.
For example, for a first-apartment scenario, they would want to include:
Ultimately, you want your teen students to see how much they’ll need to earn in order to survive on each of three different scenarios.
You’ll then want to guide discussion on the pros and cons, from a financial perspective to each of the three different paths post-high school.
Decide to throw an end-of-year party for your class, and let them not only handle most of the logistics but also handle the budgeting for it.
You’ll need to have a budget for this, which can be gained from fundraising, donations, etc.
Have each student in the class be in charge of something, perhaps broken up into groups. Then, have the entire class be in charge of the big budget decisions.
Budget decisions to be made:
There are also some great budgeting decisions that need to be made at the group level.
Group budget decisions to be made:
Did you know I have a free, fun budget activity PDF for high school students?
Students use a fun fortune teller to be assigned one of 4 avatars, with a backstory that includes:
They’re asked to fill in a budget worksheet based on their brief. Then, they’re thrown a few budgeting scenarios where they need to think on their feet (based on the budget info they filled out) about how to handle it.
Things like:
It’s pretty fun!
Psst: you'll also want to check out these personal finance project examples .
I hope I’ve shown you some budget projects high school students can really get behind because they’re at least a bit fun, they teach real-life information, and they’ll make them think. I’d love to hear from you as far as how it goes!
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Student materials. cfpb_building_block_activities_creating-monthly-household-budget_worksheet.pdf. Note: Please remember to consider your students' accommodations and special needs to ensure that all students are able to participate in a meaningful way.
Step #2: Brainstorm Next-Step Scenarios in Teen's Lives. Get your students to help you brainstorm some common (and not-so-common) next steps that can happen in a teen's life. Such as: Getting a first apartment alone. Getting a first apartment with a roommate. Going to college. Going to a trade school.
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