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Financial Fitness for Life: Shaping Up Your Financial Future - Grades 6-8 - Teacher GuideFinancial Fitness for Life: Shaping Up Your Financial Future - Grades 6-8 - Teacher Guide
Grade: 6-8   Published: 2001
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Theme 1: Lesson 1 - The Economic Way of Thinking
In this lesson, the students practice the economic way of thinking, a strategy for analyzing their own decisions as well as those of others.

 
 
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