Foundations: Earning Money

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For Grades 3–5 · 100% online — learn at your own pace

Course Overview:

This course is designed to help students understand the importance of earning money through personal effort and responsibility. It covers age-appropriate ways to earn money, the importance of effort in work, and how to choose tasks that align with their skills, interests, and time availability. Students will explore various opportunities such as chores, babysitting, lemonade stands, and more.

What Will You Learn?

  • Name safe, age-right ways kids can earn money.
  • Explain the difference between earning money and getting money.
  • Work out what a small job pays and what it costs in time.
  • Plan a first earning goal and how to reach it.

Course Content

Module 1: Age-Appropriate Ways to Earn Money
Objective: By the end of this module, students will be able to identify various ways to earn money that are appropriate for their age and understand how these activities can teach them responsibility and the value of effort.

  • Lesson 1.1: Introduction to Earning Money
  • Lesson 1.2: Earning Money Through Chores
  • Lesson 1.3: Babysitting and Pet-Sitting
  • Lesson 1.4: Running a Lemonade Stand or Small Business
  • What did you learn?
  • Lesson 1.5: Earning vs Getting Money

Module 2: How to Choose Tasks to Earn Money
Objective: By the end of this module, students will be able to evaluate and choose age-appropriate tasks to earn money, based on their abilities, interests, and goals.

Module 3: Your First Small Business
Objective: By the end of this module, students will be able to plan a simple small business, count its costs, set a fair price, work out profit, and keep a simple record book.

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