Module 31: Save or Spend?- Social Studies 2 - Course Guide

Module Overview:

In this module, students will learn to explain the personal benefits of saving money, explain the personal benefits of spending, describe the choices that people can make about earning, spending, and saving money, and make decisions about whether to earn, spend, or save money.

Module Materials:

  • Pencils
  • Crayons or colored pencils
  • Notebook
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Highlighter
  • Markers
  • Blank paper

Module Objectives:

Lesson # Lesson Title Objective(s)
1 Saving
  1. Explain the personal benefits of saving money.
2 Spending
  1. Explain the personal benefits of spending.
3 Choices
  1. Describe the choices that people can make about earning, spending, and saving money.
  2. Make decisions about whether to earn, spend, or save money.

Module Key Words:

Key Words
saving
spending
choice
earning

Module Assignments:

Lesson # Lesson Title Page # Assignment Title
1 Saving 5 Saving My Money Assignment
2 Spending 5 My Spending Assignment
3 Choices 5 My Choices Assignment

Learning Coach Notes:

Lesson # Lesson Title Notes
1 Saving After completing this lesson, ask your student to explain why it is important to save money.
2 Spending After completing this lesson, ask your student to explain responsible ways to spend money.
3 Choices

Module Guiding Questions:

When a student starts a lesson ask them questions to check for prior knowledge and understanding and to review concepts being taught. At the end of the lesson ask the questions again to see if their answer changes.

Lesson Title Question
Saving
  1. Why is it important to save money?
Spending
  1. What are responsible ways to spend money?
Choices
  1. What choices can people make when earning, spending, and saving money?

Module Video Questions:

When a student watches a video take time to ask them questions about what they watched. Suggested questions for the videos in this module are listed here. Suggestion: Have the student watch the entire video first all the way through. Then have them watch the video a second time, as they watch it pause the video and ask the questions.

Lesson Title Video Question

Module Suggested Read Aloud Books:

Take time to read to your student or have them read aloud to you. Read a different book each day. While reading the book point out concepts being taught. You may purchase these books or find them at your local library. Suggested things to discuss while reading the book:

  • What is the main idea?
  • What are three things new you learned?
  • How does this book relate to what you are learning about?

# Book Author Lexile Level
1 Rock, Brock, and the Savings Shock Sheila Bair and Barry Gott

Module Outing:

Take some time to apply what your student is learning to the real world. Suggested outings are below.

# Outing