Session Overview

SESSION ONE: Earn, Save, Spend, and Donate (45 minutes)

Knowing we have four choices with money–earn, save, spend, and donate–helps us reach our personal goals and dreams and keeps cities alive and healthy.

SESSION TWO: Invisible Money (45 minutes)

There are different forms of “spend”: cash, credit and debit cards, electronic payment and checks. Cash is visible and easy to see. Other forms are invisible because we don’t see it as money being spent.

SESSION THREE: How Do I Become an Entrepreneur? (45 minutes)

Entrepreneurs create businesses where people can earn money. Entrepreneurs spend money to keep their businesses running. Entrepreneurs also save money for business needs, and donate money for the good of the community.

SESSION FOUR: Money Choices Make the City Go Round (45 minutes)

When people, businesses, and the city balance the four money choices (earn, save, spend, and donate), the city remains healthy and can thrive.

SESSION FIVE: Let’s Build a City! (45 minutes)

Students begin to understand how the individual choices they make with money, affects the economic decisions of businesses and the government.