Objective:  Students will create a family budget for a group of 3 students on a limited budget, similar to the Curtis Brothers.

Materials:  grocery store ads, Excel

Lesson:  A group of 4 students will be given the task of budgeting meals for one week for the four of them on a $50.00 budget.  They will have to prepare 3 meals a day for 7 days.   You do receive school lunch for free, so these meals are not in your budget.  This should be presented in an Excel document and then presented to the class as a whole.

Evaluation:  Excel budget