Money Talks guides teens through the basics of earning, spending, saving and investing money, through a series of questionnaires about their personal spending and saving habits. Online videos provide tips on topics such as buying a car and establishing good credit. There are also a variety of games for students to sharpen their money skills. Information on the site is available in English and En Espanol.
Financial Football
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The Financial Football Training Camp is a lesson plan that will help you teach important financial literacy skills to your students. The four modules, each designed to teach in a 45 minute class, cover skills and information that will be vital to students’ futures.
Module 1: The Fundamentals of Investment
Module 2: Strength Training Savings and Interest
Module 3: Defensive Spending Tackling Credit & Debit Cards
Module 4: The Game Plan The Art of BudgetingOnce youve taught the lessons, its time for the big game! Financial Football is an electronic football game in which students answer finance-related questions to earn yardage and score points.
Hands on Banking
From site: Hands on Banking® is designed for both self-paced, individual learning and classroom use. Here are resources to help you share this fun, free, and valuable program with groups of any size in four age groups.
- The Instructor Guides can help you prepare, extend or modify lessons, and assess participant progress.
- Each Guide may be used alone or as an adjunct to the online/CD program.
Wise Pockets World
From site: [Kids] Wise Pockets knows a lot about earning, saving and spending money. He often helps his friends when they have money problems…
[Parents] Welcome to Wise Pockets Treehouse! A parent place to pick up some easy tips, activities, and ideas to help teach children how to use money wisely…
[Teachers] The Wise Pockets World Schoolhouse is designed to provide educators with strategies for teaching personal finance education in the classroom. As you prepare students to become more knowledgeable consumers, wise savers and investors, responsible users of credit, and careful decision makers, we encourage you to visit these web pages frequently to discover innovative methods of teaching personal finance.
ThatQuiz Money
Students can practice adding coins and dollars in an interactive quiz format. You can customize the quiz for type of money (USA, Canadian, Euro), level of difficulty, number of problems, and timed or untimed up to 30 minutes.