Grades 3–5 · 20–30 minutes
Sort the Earner
Eight people, eight ways of getting paid. Read each one and name the income type — wages, salary, profit, freelance, investment or passive.
Careers & Income · Free · With answers
5 free careers & income worksheets.
Where money comes from, what gets taken out before it arrives, and the difference between what you earn and what you keep.
Answer page on every sheet. No account, no email.
3rd to 5th Grade · 2 worksheets
Grades 3–5 · 20–25 minutes
What Taxes Buy
Walk out of your front door and list six things you pass that taxes helped pay for. Then say which one you would miss the most, and why that one.
6th to 8th Grade · 1 worksheet
Grades 6–8 · 25–35 minutes
Where Did $177 Go?
Miller worked 80 hours at $15 and expected $1,200. His paycheck says $1,023. Students build the pay stub from gross to net and name who gets each deduction.
High School, 9th to 12th Grade · 2 worksheets
Grades 9–12 · 30–35 minutes
Four Ways to Get Paid
Employee, entrepreneur, investor, hybrid. Where the money comes from in each, what you trade for it, and what the ceiling and the floor really are.
Grades 9–12 · 30–40 minutes
Reading a Form 1040
The eight lines of a Form 1040 that matter for a first job, with sample numbers from a W-2. Work down to the line that decides whether money comes back or goes out.
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Where these come from
A 266-lesson K–12 curriculum.
Each sheet is one activity from a Financial Foundations™ unit of 10 to 12 lessons, with teacher scripts, family letters and a checkpoint.