Standard 1: Understanding the attitudes and behaviors of personal financial decision making.

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Number: SS.912.FL.1
Title: Understanding the attitudes and behaviors of personal financial decision making.
Type: Standard
Subject: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Strand: Financial Literacy

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What are my options?:

Using the case study, Drowning in Debt: Making Healthy Decisions to Manage Money, students will consider various actions a consumer can take to minimize expenses and budget their money.

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Drowning in Debt: Making Healthy Decisions to Manage Money:

Using the outcome of case study, Drowning in Debt: Making Healthy Decisions to Manage Money, students will work in pairs to analyze a monthly budget, research strategies for decreasing monthly expenses and compose an email to request assistance from a banking associate

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Media, Herd Mentality, and Public Policy:

This lesson plan is an introduction to explain how media (social media, news, etc.) affects herd mentality in the age of viral videos and commercials. This lesson entails analysis activities in which students will consider how herd mentality forms and how people can be influenced in their thinking on public problems.

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Financial Literacy: Budgeting for Life Events:

Using the case study, Spending Your Life Away: Budgeting for the Future, students will create a monthly budget sheet. Students will analyze and identify ways in which saving for a future life event can be accomplished and research different ways to save.

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CPALMS mile$tones: Mapping Out Life’s Financial Choices Podcast:

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