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Smart About Money: 40 Money Management Tips Every College Student Should Know
[PDF] This downloadable brochure will help high school students prepare for the financial decisions they will need to make once high school is over.
Next Gen Personal Finance
Next Gen Personal Finance: Managing Credit Data Crunch
Data Crunches feature one chart or graph followed by five scaffolded questions to guide students through analyzing the data and drawing conclusions. These sets of data help students understand financial concepts.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Financial Football
Make personal finance fun with Visa's fast-paced interactive NFL-themed video game that engages students while teaching them personal finance skills.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Financial Calculators
Explore your own financial information in greater detail by using these powerful tools for forecasting and assessing your financial choices. During the process, you might discover expenses you can eliminate or more effective ways to...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Plan, Save, Succeed! Achieving Financial Literacy Goals
Students will understand how a budget is created and how it can support good financial decision-making. They will begin to consider the role that saving plays in financial planning.
California Digital Library
University of California: Money Talks
Money Talks is a hands-on, interactive, on-line program that increases the financial literacy capability of youth and young adults by giving them applied experiences that encourage fiscally sound decision-making in marketplace transactions.
Digital History
Digital History: Consumer Economy and Mass Entertainment
This article traces the rise of consumerism; from the car to installment credit buying, and the rise of chain stores such as Woolworths.
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Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia: Let's Get Financially Focused! [Pdf]
Should I use credit? This lesson plan provides some insight into why or when it is good to use credit, versus why or when it is not.
University of Missouri
University of Missouri: Wise Pockets: Four Dollars and Fifty Cents
This is a instructional activity geared towards elementary level students. Using the book Four Dollars and Fifty Cents by Eric Kimmel, the teacher instructs students about the terms creditor, debtor, collateral, credit, and credit...
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Debt
This website focuses on debt including debt load, debt basics, borrowing, bankruptcy, and getting out of debt.
PBS
Pbs Lesson Plan (Affluenza): Credit Quandaries
"Credit cards are not free money." Just how do credit cards work? This site provides a lesson in which students investigate the lure of credit card companies, the pitfalls of credit debt, and the impact of credit debt on our society....
PBS
Pbs: Secret History of the Credit Card
A site designed for teachers to accompany the PBS documentary by the same name. Lists of resources and handouts can stand alone.
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My Money
This Federal Government website provides consumers with many resources and much information to help them to manage their money better. Topics include budgeting, taxes, saving, investing, retirement planning, credit, and checking...
Bankrate
Bankrate: Dr. Don's 10 Tips for Better Money Management
Dr. Don Taylor provides tips for better money management in this article from Bankrate. Detailed and thorough analysis is given.
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Economic Awareness Council: Credit Control [Pdf]
Learn about responsible use of credit and credit cards, your credit score and why it is important, and how to get out of debt if you've already overextended your finances.
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Credit Reports
This site explains credit reports, credit bureaus, denial of credit, credit counseling, credit fraud and protection, improving credit, and filing for bankruptcy.
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How to Avoid Foreclosure
Advice from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on avoiding foreclosure.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: A Consumer Economy
The booming economy of the 1920s introduced new products and ways of paying for those products. Read about the increase in the kinds of household appliances, places to buy the appliances, and the financing of all those new consumer goods.
Cornell University
Cornell University: Law School: Consumer Credit an Overview
This Cornell Law School site describes the consumer protection acts that protect creditors, Uniform Credit Consumer Code and Consumer Protection Act.
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Hamilton Project: Undergraduate Student Loan Calculator
Want to figure out a student loan payment? Try this loan calculator to determine an estimate for an individual situations.
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Credit Info Center: Everything You Need to Know About Credit Cards
This site provides a wealth of general information about credit cards. Topics such as secured credit cards, PIN numbers, and MasterCard versus Visa are discussed.
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Pine Tree Legal: Legal Guide for Immigrants: Housing
Comprehensive, easy-to-understand explanation in English and Spanish of how to acquire housing in the United States. Legal issues associated with buying or renting a residence are also presented. Though the site caters to immigrants to...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The War Against the Bank
Read about Andrew Jackson's animosity toward the Second Bank of the United States and some reasons for his feelings. Was his veto of the Recharter Bill good for the country? Take the little survey to express your views.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Math in Daily Life
Read about what math has to do with cooking, chances of winning a game, even decorating your home. Teachers may want to peruse this site for ideas about real world applications in their lesson planning.