FREE SOCIAL STUDIES LESSON - “Financial Literacy Curriculum Map Saving Investing Guide Teacher Binder Planner”

by StudentSavvy
5th - 9th Grade

✨Free Curriculum Maps✨ | Financial Literacy: Saving, Investing & Risk Unit

Planning your Unit 3 financial literacy lessons just got easier. These free curriculum maps and teacher planning tools are designed to help you stay organized while teaching saving, investing, risk, diversification, and financial protection.

Perfect for upper elementary and middle school classrooms, this free resource provides a ready-to-use pacing guide, binder setup, and lesson planning framework so you can focus on instruction—not prep.

What’s Included Teacher Binder + Spine Covers

Printable binder pages to organize your Unit 3: Saving, Investing & Risk materials in one place.

4-Week Activity Calendar

A clear pacing guide that breaks the unit into:

• Reading passages
• Doodle-style interactive notebook pages
• Gamified simulations and decision-making activities
• Review and assessment
  

Curriculum Maps for 4 Core Unit 3 Resources

Reading Passages
Informational texts focused on:

• Financial portfolios
• Saving vs. investing
• Risk, reward, and diversification
• Fraud and identity theft prevention
  

Doodle Style Interactive Notebook
17 doodle-style pages paired with short readings that reinforce:

• How money grows
• Risk and diversification
• Smart financial decision-making
• Financial protection and fraud awareness
  

STEM / PBL Financial Portfolio Simulation
A roll-the-dice Google Slides project where students:

• Build a starting financial portfolio
• Experience market changes over multiple years
• Calculate percent increases and decreases
• Analyze risk, diversification, and long-term growth
  

Study Guide & Exam
Editable Word documents that include:

• A complete study guide covering all Unit 3 concepts
• A 35-question assessment (multiple choice, true/false, short answer, long response)
• Teacher answer key
  

Why Teachers Love It

• Provides a clear roadmap for teaching saving, investing, and risk step-by-step
• Saves prep time with ready-made pacing guides and curriculum maps
• Fits perfectly into a teacher binder for easy planning and reference
• Supports financial literacy standards with structured, age-appropriate lessons
  

Suggested Use

• Print and add to your teacher binder for Unit 3 organization
• Use the 4-week activity calendar to plan daily lessons
• Follow the curriculum maps to align readings, notebooks, simulations, and assessments
  

✨ This free teacher planning resource gives you a complete roadmap for Unit 3: Saving, Investing & Risk, making it easy to deliver engaging, standards-based financial literacy lessons your students will understand and remember.

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “Grammar Camp Pronoun Freebie”

by The Speech Attic
Kindergarten - 2nd Grade

This fun camping themed pack is perfect for working on pronouns.

Included:

48 cards with answer choices

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FREE SCIENCE LESSON - “Garden Discovery - FREEBIE”

by Love Those Kinders
Kindergarten - 2nd Grade

This is a shortened version of my Garden Discovery Fun resource.
In this freebie, students use their senses to find items in the garden or the schoolyard. A set of task cards and a recording sheet are included in this packet.

You can find the entire GARDEN DISCOVERY FUN packet here.
GARDEN DISCOVERY FUN

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “Emotions Scenarios Feelings Puzzles | SEL Pre-K”

by Sea of Knowledge
Pre-Kindergarten - 2nd Grade

Help preschoolers explore and understand their emotions with these super cute emotion puzzles! This interactive resource is perfect for young learners, focusing on the main and most common emotions.

They are differentiated, so you can choose which ones to use with your group of students.

Working on emotions with preschoolers has numerous benefits that support their overall development. Here are some key benefits:

1. Improved Emotional Awareness: Teaching emotions helps preschoolers recognize and name their feelings, which is crucial for emotional intelligence.
2. Better Communication Skills: When children understand how to express their emotions, they are more likely to communicate their needs effectively, reducing frustration and misunderstandings.
3. Stronger Social Connections: Understanding emotions helps children develop empathy and build stronger relationships with peers and adults.
4. Increased Self-Regulation: Learning about emotions enables children to identify their feelings and choose appropriate responses, fostering self-control and better behavior management.
5. Boosted Confidence: When kids can express and manage their emotions, they feel more secure and confident in social situations.
6. Problem-Solving Skills: Emotions education allows preschoolers to navigate challenges and conflicts, teaching them strategies for resolving issues in healthy ways.

Focusing on emotional development equips young learners with essential tools for their personal and social growth!

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FREE MATH LESSON - “Counting 0-10 Freebie-PreK-K”

by Linda McCormick
Pre-Kindergarten - Kindergarten

These three worksheets give your kiddos practice in counting and writing the numbers 0-10.

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FREE SCIENCE LESSON - “Liquid Volume: Measuring with 30 mL Graduated Cylinders FREE Worksheet”

by Elly Thorsen
5th - 8th Grade

Give your middle school science students practice measuring liquid volume in 30 mL graduated cylinders with this free worksheet. In the worksheet, students record the volume of liquid in graduated cylinders and shade the graduated cylinders to show specific volumes. The tick marks on the graduated cylinders count by one. The graduated cylinders in this worksheet show liquid with a meniscus instead of a straight line. This one-page worksheet includes a complete answer key.

This free worksheet is a sample from the Liquid Volume: Measuring with Graduated Cylinders Worksheet Set for Science. Read more about the worksheets in that set here:

• Worksheet 1: Students record the volume of liquid in 30 mL graduated cylinders and shade in graduated cylinders to show specific volumes. The tick marks on the graduated cylinders count by one. (This is the free worksheet you are about to download.)
• Worksheet 2: Students record the volume of liquid in 30 mL graduated cylinders and shade in graduated cylinders to show specific volumes. The tick marks on the graduated cylinders count by two.
• Worksheet 3: Students record the volume of liquid in 150 mL graduated cylinders and shade in graduated cylinders to show specific volumes. The tick marks on the graduated cylinders count by ten.
• Worksheet 4: Students record the volume of liquid in 50 mL graduated cylinders and shade in graduated cylinders to show specific volumes. The tick marks on the graduated cylinders count by one.
• Worksheet 5: Students record the volume of liquid in 250 mL graduated cylinders and shade in graduated cylinders to show specific volumes. The tick marks on the graduated cylinders count by ten.
• Worksheet 6: Students record the volume of liquid in one 250 mL graduated cylinder. Then they shade that same volume in four different graduated cylinders.

***Or you could get ALL of the worksheets above PLUS some about the water displacement method!

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• Volume and Graduated Cylinders INB Pages and PowerPoint
• Volume Stations
• Graduated Cylinders Exit Ticket
• Volume Exit Ticket
• Volume Worksheet

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “4th Grade Social Emotional Learning Journal - SEL JOURNAL Week 1 FREE SAMPLE”

by Rockin Resources
4th Grade

FREE SAMPLE of our 4th Grade Social Emotional Learning Journal. Try Week 1 for free!

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE YEAR-LONG SEL JOURNAL IN THE LINK ABOVE OR SEE BELOW:

This SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING journal with Casel Framework covers all 5 CASEL COMPETENCIES. To take students confidently through the school year, each of the 5 competencies are scaffolded and repeated 7 times to provide 35 weeks of social emotional learning opportunities. This SEL journal writing helps students build confidence and empathy.

It is perfect for morning work to start off the day on the right foot! DIGITAL NOW AVAILABLE- PDF, GOOGLE, AND POWERPOINT INCLUDED!

COMPETENCIES:

1. Self-Awareness
2. Self-Management
3. Social Awareness
4. Relationship Skills
5. Decision-Making

THERE IS A CHOICE OF TWO COVER PAGES FOR JOURNALS.

6-PRONGED APPROACH INCLUDES:

1.  DAILY CHECK IN: 

Teachers can gain a sense of where students are emotionally each day to determine if there is something the teacher needs to discuss with that student.

2.  MINDFUL MINUTE: 

Practical daily strategies for coping and calming. These vary. Some are the same throughout the week. Others change daily.

3.  SCAFFOLDED SEL VOCABULARY: 

The vocabulary helps students develop the necessary words to express themselves. It increases vocabulary consciousness through encountering, engaging, and applying context via definition, sentence, synonym and ‘What does the word make me think of?’ There is one vocabulary word per week that is aligned to that competency. Each CASEL competency vocabulary word progresses/builds upon each previous competency cycle. i.e.- Look at Decision-Making and see how the vocabulary progresses with each cycle. The vocabulary is consistent in content across grades 3-5 with different words aligned to the reading level (based on a book, Children's Writer's Word Book by Alijandra Mogilner that levels words).

• VOCABULARY SENTENCE:  There is a sample of a sentence in the teacher notes.

• SYNONYM: For some words, you may want students (or use for differentiation) to find antonyms too.

• WHAT DOES THE WORD MAKE ME THINK OF?: This can be anything that comes to mind. It can be shared in a discussion.

A WORD WALL and STUDY CARDS are also included!

4.  TODAY I CAN: 

The “I Can” statements are practical, ‘doable’ and aligned with CASEL 'I Can' ideals. (Many districts require teachers to write the daily 'I Can' 'standards' on the board. Often, they 'sound good' but lack practicality for students. Our 'I Can' statements combine realistic things students can do AND general goal statements. They will mean something to students.

There is overlap across grade levels with 'I Can' statements. This both reinforces previous years' 'I Can' tasks but also introduces different/higher level ones that have been tweaked.

These can be used for discussion. Some have a quick written answer while others have a place to check off for completion or understanding. When checking off for completion, it may need to be checked off at the end of the day or before they start the next day. You might also want to set guidelines to meet your classroom dynamics for some of them. For example- Sit next to someone who is lonely. – You might want to designate a time- at lunch or free time.

5.  QUOTE: 

Quotes were included for inspiration and context. They have cited authors if known and their occupation. They were chosen for practical and thought-provoking analysis.

6.  REFLECTION: 

VISUAL:  The illustration doesn’t have to be specific. It can symbolize the statement. For example-  I can promise myself to not make the same mistake twice. Students can draw a promise sign and the number 2.

WRITTEN:  Practical and thought-provoking reflection prompts to increase students' comprehension and transformation.

WHAT IS THE CASEL FRAMEWORK?

A framework creates a foundation for applying evidence-based SEL strategies to the community. The “CASEL wheel” helps cultivate skills and environments that advance students’ learning and development.

Use the framework to:

• Foster knowledge, skills, and attitudes across five areas of social and emotional competence;
• Establish equitable learning environments and coordinate practices across four key settings that support students’ social, emotional, and academic development.

BEFORE YOU START: 

These are meant to do in the morning, first thing, like DOL or Math Minutes, etc.

Remind students that there are no right or wrong answers. It is to help them grow socially and emotionally. If you need to grade it, it can be for completion.

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