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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Consumer Tools

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Useful age-appropriate lessons and activities meant to educate kids about their finances as they grow. Geared toward ages 3 through 18+, each module identifies 4 specific milestones students should understand in order to achieve...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Economics: Personal Finance

For Students 9th - 10th
Economics learning module on personal finance discusses decision making, banking and using credit.
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Bankrate

Bankrate: Dr. Don's 10 Tips for Better Money Management

For Students 9th - 10th
Dr. Don Taylor provides tips for better money management in this article from Bankrate. Detailed and thorough analysis is given.
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Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Checking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson teaches students about the ins and outs of opening and keeping a checking account.
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Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Types of Credit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lessons and activities to teach students about types of credit.
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Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Managing Credit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lessons and activities to teach students about managing credit.
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Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Insurance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teach students about different types of insurance, and why it's important.
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Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Budgeting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lessons and activities to teach students about creating and living within a budget.
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Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Careers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Help students learn about career options, life skills they might need to develop, and how to pursue a career.
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Practical Money Skills

Visa: Practical Money Skills for Life

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Visa provides a resource that teachers, parents, and students will all enjoy using. There are lesson plans here for all ages, as well as information about spending decisions, budgeting, and money management. Print your own play money,...
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Guide to Financial Management

For Students 9th - 10th
The ultimate source for learning about financial management. This site contains an online book on financial management geared for administrators and staff at the university.
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PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Financial Crisis Glossary

For Teachers 9th - 10th
PBS's NewsHour Extra provides an Economic and Government lesson plan covering the economic crisis and its impact on the U.S. and global markets. Young scholars must utilize current media outlets covering the financial crisis and refer to...
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Other

Wells Fargo Bank: Hands on Banking for Adults

For Students 9th - 10th
Mini-learning modules that teach adults how to manage their money wisely and reach their financial goals.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Financial Education

For Students Pre-K - K
Every goal starts with taking the first step. Teaching kids to save money by collecting in a specific place such as a piggy bank or a jar shows kids concretely how much they are saving. Every time you save up to a certain small, new...
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The Mint: A Glossary of Personal Finance Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
This user friendly site has terms and definitions from A to Z about money and finance.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Money Management

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This month-long experience educates young scholars in differentiating between needs and wants, how to budget resources, and to gain an understanding of the workings of a capitalist society.
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Other

Teen Analyst: Teen Financial Information

For Students 9th - 10th
Believe it or not, most kids graduate high school lacking basic personal finance skills. That's where TeenAnalyst.com comes in. The basic idea was to give kids the information they need to become successful investors.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 1: Money Matters

For Teachers K - 1st
The process of earning money is the cornerstone of financial literacy. In this lesson, learners will identify key terms associated with earning money, explore ideas for earning money now, and evaluate various career options as sources of...
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Other

Money Management International: The Berenstain Bears' Trouble With Money

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
A lesson plan featuring the Berenstain Bears that introduces the concepts of spending, goods, services, income, saving, and interest.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Tracking Income and Benefits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using a case study about an urban family, students calculate monthly net income and explore how irregular income may make it challenging to manage monthly expenses.
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills for Life: Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A series of financial literacy lesson plans broken out by grade range for grades from Pre-K through college, with an additional set of lessons created for students with special needs.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Saving Money 2

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
The purpose of this task is for students to relate addition and subtraction problems to money and to situations and goals related to saving money. A problem is given that will contain multiple solutions, this allows students to think...
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CNN

Cnn: Senate Wall Street Reform Bill

For Students 9th - 10th
CNN briefly discusses the bill, passed by the The Senate, that overhauls the U. S. financial system and establishes a consumer financial protection regulatory agency that would regulate mortgages and credit cards. This legislation is...
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Federal Trade Commission

Federal Trade Commission: You Are Here

For Students 5th - 8th
In this interactive mall environment, students learn how to make smart decisions as consumers. Whether shopping for clothes, choosing the best food deal, searching for a job or buying a cellphone, students will learn how to recognize...