US Department of Education
Nces Kids' Zone: Dare to Compare: 12th Grade Economics
Find out how you compare with students nationally and from around the world by taking the interactive online quiz.
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Economic Awareness Council: Student Budget Builder
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this series of questions and calculators to estimate how to pay for your college education. Use this as an exercise in finance, or with the real amounts you will have available to pay for your...
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Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: Chair the Fed: A Monetary Policy Game
The resource consists of a tutorial and learning game about monetary policy. Some topics investigated are reserve requirements, open market operations, discount rate, and tight monetary policy.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: Why Johnny Can't Choose
If you don't know what the economy is or how it works, this site is for you. It is broken into subsections that make it easy to understand the economy.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lesson Plan: Financial Institution Comparison
The lesson plan investigates financial literacy. Teachers can use the lesson plan to help students learn how to choose a financial institution. Objectives, instructional procedures, and additional resources are included.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Avengers Comic Teaches Mad Money Skills
The Avengers teach Spider-Man the principles of saving and spending as they save a bank from the evil powers of Mole Man. This site includes an online comic book, an instruction guide for teachers, and a budget worksheet.
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.
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In Charge: Financial Literacy for Kids
The following lessons provide guidance, lesson plans, and activities for teachers interested in introducing financial literacy concepts to students in grades K-6.
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Pricewaterhouse Coopers: Financial Literacy Curriculum
A supplemental curriculum composed of easy to follow lesson plans, accompanied by interactive handouts and dynamic multimedia components. The goal is to provide students and educators access to financial literacy education.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Field Day Scarcity
Students will learn about managing money and scarcity while practicing addition and subtraction. They will be given a certain amount of money to spend at a fictitious store. Included are discussion questions about how students decided to...
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...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Delayed Gratification
You won first place at your school Science Fair and have 2 choices for your prize!! The purpose of this task is for young scholars to compare two options for a prize where the value of one is given $2 at a time, giving them an...
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.
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Wells Fargo Bank: Hands on Banking for Kids
Mini learning modules that teach kids about money and its worth. Students also learn how to set financial goals during these interactive activities.
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Wells Fargo Bank: Hands on Banking for Teens
Mini learning modules that teach teens how to manage their money wisely and reach their financial goals.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" by Mildred D. Taylor
Selected (8) reading passages (grades 6-10) to pair with "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" by Mildred D. Taylor. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry tells the story of the Logan family combating racial tension and segregation in Mississippi during...
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Visa: What's My Score
When you are ready for a car, for a place of your own, for nice furniture, would you be able to charge it on a credit card? Here's a site that can give you great advice about building good credit when you head out on your own.
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Wells Fargo Bank: Financial Information for Young Adults
Mini learning modules that teach young adults how to manage money wisely and reach their financial goals.
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Wells Fargo: Hands on Banking: Elementary School Course
Learning game for younger students in a lesson in economics in which students learn about banking, saving, budgeting, and money.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Lessons: Pre K Grade2
Four lessons on basic money skills for young learners cover topics such as identifying money, spending money, and earning money.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Lessons: Grades 3 6
Four fiancial literacy lessons on allowances, money responsibility, saving, and comparison shopping. Lessons can be evaluated separately or as a group.
