Earning Income Standards and Resources

The Earning Income standard focuses on the income people earn or receive. Students should gain a basic understanding of the benefits and costs of increasing income through gaining skills, training, and/or education. They examine entrepreneurship, labor markets, taxes, and decision-making as related to jobs and careers. 

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Use the News Articles with Standards-based questions

Check out the standards alignments  to our Use the News articles on Earning Income. Some of our latest articles include student guides! 

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Why do we pay taxes?

If we have good economic growth, why are some families struggling?

To college loan or not to college loan?

Are you ready for the real world?

Will robots take your job?

Is debt scaring you away from college?

Do you want to work for someone else or yourself?

Can you create an app for that?

Are you prepared for college or a career?

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Earning Income Resources from the Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve has some great resources and lesson plans

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Financial freedom

Florida teachers, order free copies of Financial Freedom for your students. Chapters 3 and 9 align to the standards, as illustrated in the alignment chart.

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Below, download instructional guides for the chapters 3 (Searching for a Job and Earning Income) and 9 (Planning for Higher Education), which include teacher instructions and standards alignments.

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Better Money Habits Resources For inquiry

Better Money Habits includes a variety of engaging diverse texts on college and earning income and paying taxes. These include videos, infographics, and other informational texts to engage students in inquiry about the standards.

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practical Money skills Resources and calculators

Check out some of the Practical Money Skills financial calculators:

•  Education and College
• Work and Taxes

​Then check out some of the other resources.

Information and texts on finding a job

Background information on learning to earn money

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Next Generation Personal Finance 

Next Generation Personal Finance (NGPF) is a free online curriculum for educators. Although it is aligned to the JumpStart standards, in the chart below, we have created a matrix to illustrate connections with the Florida Standards. Here are three curriculum units you can use for teaching about earning income:

1. Curriculum Mini Units on college
2. Career Curriculum 
3. Taxes Curriculum

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Econedlink lessons

EconEdLink.org has some excellent lessons you can use with your students:

What are the hidden costs of college?

What are the costs and benefits of going to college?

Do you want to become an entrepreneur?

Do you know how to prepare Form 1040?

What about income inequality?

What is the challenge of living on the minimum wage?

Who decides wage rates?

How do I understand an income statement?

How do you raise your human capital?

Enjoy this tax time scavenger hunt!

Why does Eli Manning make 24 million a year?

Could you earn a million dollars?

What do you want to make? Research wages of different careers!

If you are so smart, why aren't you rich?

Be all you can be . . . for minimum wage.

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