Budgeting & Banking Doodle Notes Unit for Middle & High School Personal Finance
Banking & Budgeting Basics for Teens: Build financial literacy and life skills through fun, interactive guided doodle notes!
This unit of visual guided notes is in PDF format and includes these personal finance topics and life skills:
- Bank Accounts (deposits, withdrawals, fees, interest, etc.)
- Savings vs. Checking vs. Investment Accounts, CDs
- Simple Interest
- Understanding Paychecks (gross pay, net pay, different types of withholdings, benefits)
- Income, Expenses, and Emergency Funds
- Real World: Reading a Sample Paycheck
- Compound Interest
- Managing Spending
- Credit, Debt, and Assets
- Real World: iInterest Can Work For you or Against You
- Real World: Balancing Income and Expenses
- Budgeting (needs, wants, and savings)
- Creating a Budget (choosing between a 50% /30% / 20% plan and a 70% / 20% / 10% plan and breaking it down further from there)
- Real World: Choose, Calculate, and Revise (Create your budget and build a pie chart using budget categories)
- Interactive practice and examples to help students really understand!
Through this guided doodle note method, students learn the concepts in a creative way that transfers well to long-term memory.
**INCLUDES GUIDED AUDIO LECTURES where my voice can walk your students through each lesson!
You and your students can access the online guided audio lectures that accompany all the lessons in this book at mathgiraffe.com/supplement
Doodle notes activate both hemispheres of the brain and lead to increased focus and retention! Because of dual coding theory, the student brain can process the new content more easily through the interactive tasks, visual memory triggers, and opportunities to sketch, color, and embellish!
*This unit is just one of six chapters in a full course on financial literacy, so if you teach more finance topics to teens, check out the full bundle:
The Personal Finance Doodle Note Book offers your middle or high school students the brain benefits of visual note taking all throughout their financial literacy coursework! The doodle notes include:
- taxes
- budgeting
- credit
- interest
- stocks
- banking
- insurance
- mortgages
- investing
- loans
- net worth
- and more!
For that full book, select this option instead: Financial Literacy for Teens