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Middle School Course

5.2 Building Your Saving Habits

APPROXIMATE TIME: 60 MINUTES

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TEACHER FACING SLIDES

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ASSESSMENTS & GRADING

Please do NOT include any NGPF assessments or answer keys in your Nearpod lessons.

Each NGPF lesson ends with an Exit Ticket which NGPF recommends for grading.

IMPORTANT

GRADING TIP

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CUSTOMIZE IT!

Please review the Nearpod slides and customize the content and activities based on your teaching environment using Google Slides and/or Nearpod.

Delete teacher facing slides before facilitating lesson to your students!

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FACILITATION

Make sure you have the lesson guide available when you are facilitating (for time management, organization of lesson) and the answer key available when you are grading.

If a resource or activity in a lesson was not transferable to Nearpod there will be a teacher facing slide making you aware.

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Building Your Saving Habits

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JUMP$TART STANDARDS

Spending

1a: Identify personal goals for spending and saving

Saving

1b: Create a savings plan that will allow someone to make a large purchase in one year, 5 years, and 10 years
2c: Identify life situations that can make it difficult for a person to save or to stick to a savings plan
2d: Discuss how savings decisions can affect financial wellbeing

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LESSON SKILLS

MATH SKILLS

Order of operations

ELA SKILLS

Conduct research to locate information
Understand and summarize key topics from a text or visual

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TALK TO A PARTNER

Imagine your cousins are chatting and say, “We don’t need to start saving NOW. We only have to do that when we’re older!” What counterpoints could you tell them?

Write your explanation on the next slide. Then, discuss your reasoning with a partner.

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INTERACTIVE: Money Magic

You understand the importance of saving, but what are some ways we can make our short-, medium- and long-term saving goals become a reality when there are other things we want to use our money on? Delaying gratification is a tough, but useful skill in developing strong saving habits!

Money Magic is a game about an eager magician named Enzo who needs help managing his spending in order to reach his savings goal of making it to a Las Vegas show. On the next slide, play the game to learn about the importance of planning ahead for saving goals. Good luck!

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CALCULATE: How to Save

As you learned from playing Money Magic, it can sometimes be tricky to plan ahead for saving goals. One helpful saving strategy to address this challenge is to calculate how much money you need to save and create a plan on how to achieve a goal! Follow the directions in the activity to learn how to break down your saving plans.