Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Tracking Income and Benefits
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.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills for Life: Lesson Plans
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.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Peter Pig's Money Counter
Interactive learning game in which students gain practical skills in financial literacy by learning how to identify and count coins. Students choose one of three levels of difficulty.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 4.oa Carnival Tickets
The purpose of this task is for students to solve multi-step problems in a context involving a concept that supports financial literacy, namely inflation. Aligns with 4.OA.A.3.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A sse.b.4: A Lifetime of Savings
The purpose of this instructional task is to give young scholars an opportunity to construct and find the value of a geometric series in a financial literacy context. Aligns with A-SSE.B.4.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Outlook on Money: Basics of Budgeting
Explore the basics of budgeting and get tips for personal money management. View a video segment that shows how one woman is achieving her goals of financial independence by learning to set priorities. Includes a classroom guide and...
Other
Center for Media & Democracy: George W. Bush Campaign
Information on George W. Bush and his campaign for reelection is presented here by the Center for Media & Democracy.
Federal Reserve Bank
Katrina's Classroom: Teaching Money Skills for Life
Students will participate in Katrina's Classroom curriculum provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The lesson emphasizes the importance of being prepared for a financial emergency. This is a Commerce and Information Technology...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Help How Do I Pay for My College Education?
This lesson plan is designed to guide students through the process of searching for financial aid information by utilizing technology. This lesson plan contains a financial aid component.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Liquidity for Success
This instructional activity will input values to calculate financial ratios and intepret the information derived from the calculations. This is a Commerce and Information Technology lesson plan.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Don't Buy It: Get Media Smart!: Create a Pop Star
Follow the story line to create a pop star. You must make good financial choices to achieve success. You can also quiz yourself about commercials and other uses of music.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Countdown to Retirement
Discover whether your budgeting skills will leave you wealthy or land you in the poor house in this engaging interactive game. This game teaches practical life skills for developing sound budgeting practices and making good financial...
James Madison University
James Madison University: Online Elementary Economics Lessons
James Madison University has developed a variety of online economic lessons for elementary students. Explore basic economic and financial concepts.
University of Texas at Austin
Francais Interactif Money, Finance & Investments
Extensive vocabulary lists of all things financial. Video and audio clips to utilize vocab in context. Has interviews in French and links to internet activities and salient grammar points.
Other
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...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Saving Money 2
The purpose of this task is for young scholars 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...
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Why Is Good Credit Important?
Introduces students to the relationships among credit history, credit report, and credit score and shows how essential maintaining a good credit history is to financial stability.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Cfpb): Private Mortgage Insurance (Pmi)
Understand the legalities of private mortgage insurance (PMI) and the law protecting homeowners from paying unnessary fees. Links to understanding the basics of PMI, PMI requirements, the Homeowner's Protection Act (PMI), how to cancel...
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Assessing How You Manage Money
This lesson examines how to manage your money safely.
Save And Invest
Finra Investor Education Foundation: The Emergency Fund
This lesson plan teaches students the importance of being financially prepared for unexpected expenses.
Save And Invest
Finra Investor Education Foundation: Debt Elimination
This lesson plan offers different strategies for eliminating debt and strengthening one's financial position and cash flow.
CNN
Cnn: Senate Wall Street Reform Bill
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...
Leaf Group
E How: How to Write a Business Analysis Paper
This article by Sam Ashe-Edmunds explains how to write a business analysis paper, an in-depth look at a business or company in terms of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, finances, employment, and attaining goals.
Genius Brands International
Secret Millionaires Club: Webisode Activities
Backed by Warren Buffett, "the world's most famous investor," the Secret Millionaires Club teaches children about saving and investing money, about how businesses and credit cards work, and about the personal qualities that support...