Washington
6th Grade
State Standards
Look below to see how Banzai's courses, worksheets, activities, and games align with the State Learning Standards: Financial Education for 6th Grade. Note, any one activity listed will satisfy the associated competency.
6.SS: Spending and Saving
Develop a plan for spending and saving.
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Defined by State Learning Standards: Financial Education
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*Any of the activities below will satisfy the competency
1: Show how spending priorities reflect goals and personal values.
2: Classify the components of a personal spending plan, including income, planned saving, and expenses.
3: Distinguish between saving strategies, including pay yourself first and comparison shopping.
4: Compare the advantages and disadvantages of saving for financial goals.
5: Identify the importance of an emergency fund.
Develop a system for keeping and using financial records.
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Defined by State Learning Standards: Financial Education
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6: Prepare a sample personal property inventory, including descriptions, locations, and estimates of value.
Under Development
Describe how to use different payment methods.
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7: Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of checks, prepaid cards, debit cards, gift cards, and online and mobile payment systems.
Apply consumer skills to spending and saving decisions.
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Defined by State Learning Standards: Financial Education
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8: Analyze how external factors, such as marketing and advertising techniques, might influence spending decisions for different individuals.
6.CD: Credit and Debt
Analyze the costs and benefits of various types of credit.
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Defined by State Learning Standards: Financial Education
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1: Explain how debit cards differ from credit cards.
2: Calculate the total cost of repaying a loan under various rates of interest and over different periods.
6.EI: Employment and Income
Explore job and career options.
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Defined by State Learning Standards: Financial Education
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1: Give an example of how education and training can affect lifetime income.
2: List the education and training requirements, income potential, and primary duties of at least two jobs of interest.
3: Identify individuals who could provide positive job references.
Under Development
4: Label basic components of a part-time job application.
Under Development
Compare sources of personal income and compensation.
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5: Identify the difference between earned and unearned income and give an example of each.
6: Give an example of a situation that qualifies for a government transfer payment.
7: Identify how local government services assist people.
Analyze factors that affect net income.
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8: List Social Security, Medicare, and Affordable Care Act benefits structure.
6.I: Investing
Evaluate investment alternatives.
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Defined by State Learning Standards: Financial Education
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*Any of the activities below will satisfy the competency
1: Explain the difference between stocks and bonds.
Demonstrate how to buy and sell investments.
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2: Explain how to open a basic deposit account at a financial institution or brokerage firm.
6.RM: Risk Management and Insurance
Identify common types of risks and basic risk management methods.
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Defined by State Learning Standards: Financial Education
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*Any of the activities below will satisfy the competency
1: Give examples of how people manage the risk of financial loss through avoidance, acceptance, control and reduction, and transfer through insurance.
2: Identify the consequences of accepting risk with insufficient or no insurance.
3: Investigate a specific product safety recall.
Under Development
Justify reasons to use health, disability, long-term care, and life insurance.
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4: List the kinds of expenses that health insurance can cover.
6.FD: Financial Decision-Making
Recognize the responsibilities associated with personal financial decisions.
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Defined by State Learning Standards: Financial Education
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*Any of the activities below will satisfy the competency
1: Analyze examples of money-handling decisions that youth could face.
2: List the benefits of making sound financial decisions and the costs of making unsound financial decisions.
3: Illustrate how influences such as current fashion trends, peer pressure, and procrastination can affect financial decisions.
Use reliable resources when making financial decisions.
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Defined by State Learning Standards: Financial Education
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4: Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of various online and printed sources of product information.
5: List methods used to test advertising claims.
Under Development
6: Determine whether information sources are accurate and reliable when comparing products and services.
7: Describe a process for making a consumer decision by combining pre-purchase information with point-of-purchase information, such as unit price data and discounts.
8: List types of consumer fraud, including online scams and phone solicitations.
Summarize major consumer protection laws.
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9: Give examples of behaviors that make consumers vulnerable to fraud.
10: Describe the consumer protection agencies and their responsibilities in one's state and community.
Under Development
11: Give examples of unfair or deceptive business practices that consumer protection laws prohibit.
Under Development
12: List the types of information needed to resolve a specific consumer complaint.
Under Development
Make criterion-based financial decisions by systematically considering alternatives and consequences.
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13: Apply systematic decision-making to setting and achieving financial goals.
14: Prioritize personal financial goals.
15: Determine the cost of achieving a financial goal.
16: Evaluate the results of a financial decision.
17: Give examples of how decisions made today can affect future opportunities.
Apply communication strategies when discussing financial issues.
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18: Recognize how discussing financial matters with household members could help reduce conflict.
Under Development
19: Identify differences in peers' personal values and attitudes about money.
Under Development
20: Illustrate how to negotiate a fee for services such as babysitting or lawn care.
Under Development
Analyze the requirements of contractual obligations.
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21: Devise a sample family agreement that establishes the terms of use of a personal item.
Under Development
Control personal information.
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22: Identify ways that thieves fraudulently obtain personal information.
23: List problems that might occur to a victim of identity theft.
24: List strategies for creating and maintaining strong online passwords.
25: Recommend ways to use social media safely.
Use a personal financial plan or budget.
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Defined by State Learning Standards: Financial Education
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26: List assets and liabilities.
Under Development
27: Construct a hypothetical student's net worth statement.
Under Development