Lesson Plan

Grades 6-8

If Money Won’t Buy It

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40 minutes

SUBJECTS: Math, Science, Social Studies

TOPICS: Community Connections, Energy, Natural Resource Use - General, Personal Consumption

Resource Overview

Students participate in a budgeting activity to weigh everyday actions against their environmental impact.

Students will be able to:
  • Determine how their lifestyle choices would change if based on environmental impact rather than monetary value.
  • Make lifestyle decisions based on an environmental impact budget.
  • Express their values through personal choices and decisions.
  • Calculate the environmental cost of everyday actions.
Everyday decisions about our how we use energy have an environmental impact to balance against personal choice

Features of This Resource

  • Great lesson plan for social economics
  • SEL core competency of responsible decision-making – students reflect on their own priorities and actions

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This lesson plan must be purchased as part of a lesson packet or as part of a full curriculum that is available in our store.

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