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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 2: Plans and Goals
Planning is essential to financial success. In this instructional activity, students will define the word "budget" and identify the three key components associated with creating a budget, evaluate wants versus needs, and demonstrate an...
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...
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Lessons: College
Ten financial literacy lesson plans allow college learners to build on their skills and cover topics such as budgeting, living on your own, managing credit cards, cars and loans, and saving and investing.
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.
University of Missouri
University of Missouri St. Louis:wise Pockets: Kermit the Hermit
This is an elementary level lesson that deals with spending, saving, income, and interest. Requires the book Kermit the Hermit by Bill Peet. Includes detailed lesson plan along with procedures and activities.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Finding the Right Combination of Clothes
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Harry has a fixed budget for clothing, so he uses algebra to figure out what combination of jackets and pants he can buy with $100. [3:24]
University of Missouri
Wise Pockets World: Wise Pockets Clubhouse for Students
As students read the stories in the library, they learn about earning money, spending and saving money, and a bit about borrowing and lending money as well. Each story is followed by a short quiz and a printable activity.
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...
Other
The Mint: Ideas for Teachers: Budgeting Your Financial Resources
This lesson plan teaches students about different types of income and expenses and allows them to develop a personal budget.
Bankrate
Bankrate: How to Budget
This site shows you how to set up and manage your own budget. Includes several bullets points and information for understanding. (2001)
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.
Other
Met Life: Monthly Expense Record [Pdf]
This site provides a form for keeping track of monthly expenses, with space for housing, food, and transportation expenditures.
Other
Economic Awareness Council: Getting Going: Your Money Goals [Pdf]
This tutorial focuses on both the mind-set necessary for productive goal setting and the practicalities of how to determine realistic goals and plan the steps to meet them.
Other
Economic Awareness Council: Your First Paycheck [Pdf]
Learn what all that information on your paycheck means, and learn to make smart decisions about how to use the money you earn.
Other
Economic Awareness Council: Budgeting Basics [Pdf]
Learn practical steps to take when building a budget that you can realistically live with.
Other
Economic Awareness Council: Ben Knows $: Money Smart Activities for Kids [Pdf]
It is never to early to begin saving money. Use this printable workbook to help young students learn concepts like the difference between want and need, the difference between saving and spending, what banks do, and how to budget to...
Other
Rich Kid Smart Kid: Ima's Dream
Animated learning games for students in all grades K-12, teaches them about basic finance, how to save, give and invest.
Other
Biz Kids: Break the Bank
In this interactive game, you are a worker at a community bank, helping customers get good loans and save for their future. However, the terrible Mr. Boar and his clerks from a payday loan company have infiltrated your bank! Rally the...
Other
Biz Kids: Bring Home the Bacon
Bring Home the Bacon is an exciting interactive way to learn the concept of supply and demand. More demand, more customers, but don't get too carried away because upgrading your investments might be worth the wait!
Other
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...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Money Comes and Goes
Students read two online stories that introduce them to the elements of a budget and show that a successful budget balances money coming in (income) with money going out (expenses and savings). Follow-up activities point out the value of...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Personal Budget
Get some tips here on how to set up a personal budget by analyzing expenses, budgeting for the whole year, reducing expenses, tracking expenditures, paying off debts, planning for emergencies, and investing.