Title: Identify strategies for earning and saving money.
Course: Family and Consumer Sciences Exploratory I (19903-12) > Section: Examining Consumer and Family Resources

Identification should include strategies to earn money such as

- babysitting
- washing cars
- walking dogs/pet sitting
- lawn maintenance
- shoveling snow
- running errands.

Strategies for saving should include

- setting a goal to accumulate money for a special purpose
- regularly setting aside a portion of earnings and/or gift money.

Teacher Resources:

- Financial Fitness, FCCLA National Program (available in FCCLA portal)
- U.S. Economic Empowerment Project

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- Why is it important for young adults to earn money?
- Why is it important for young adults to save money?

Communication

- How can communicating with others help you discover ways to earn money?
- What resources are available to help you find ways to earn money?

Leadership

- How can working to earn money help you develop leadership skills?

Management

- What can be the long-term results of saving money? Of not saving money?
- What service learning or community project(s) could the FCCLA chapter conduct to promote personal finance?