Practical Money Skills
Visa: Practical Money Skills for Life
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,...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Electric Money Teaching Guides (History of Money Resources)
Five teaching guides containing interdisciplinary lessons that can be used to explore the characteristics of money; how credit, debit, and smart cards work; financial markets and transactions; and similar topics. Designed as complements...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: My Credit Rating: Why Should I Care?
This site provides an interesting lesson on credit and how we use it, the dangers of over-using it, bankruptcy and its consequences, and more.
PBS
Frontline:secret History of the Credit Card
Visit this PBS site before getting a credit card. Read the "Eight Things A Credit Card User Should Know" and find out what the real cost can be to use one. Take the credit card quiz to see how much you learned.
Other
St. Petersburg Times: Money Stuff
This resource makes finance and all aspects of managing money understandable, including budgets, banking, credit, buying a car, and more.
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PBS
Pbs: Frontline: The [Credit] Card Game
Information and analysis on the practices of the loan industry in America. Focus is on the wave of financial services legislation, which attempts to curb abusive tactics of banks and credit card issuers, that came into effect in 2010.
Utah Education Network
Uen: How Credit Works
Learn credit terminology and analyze an actual loan application.
Other
Washington State Department of Financial Institutions: Right on the Money
[PDF] Booklet provides practical advice on topics such as banking, creating a spending plan, and finding college money.
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission: Consumer: Prepaid Cards
Tips for using and choosing a prepaid card. Learn about and compare other ways to spend your money.
Next Gen Personal Finance
Next Gen Personal Finance: Types of 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 credit concepts.
Save And Invest
Finra Investor Education Foundation: Before You Choose a Credit Card
This lesson plan covers the differences between credit cards and how to choose the right one.
Next Gen Personal Finance
Next Gen Personal Finance: Types of Credit
Lessons and activities to teach students about types of credit.
US Department of the Treasury
Help With My Bank
Helps you find answers to your questions regarding national banks and federal savings associations.
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.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Credit Cards
Thinking about opening a credit card? This resource gives consumers information about maneuvering the credit process. Use the interactive guide to learn more about terms and fees offered by credit cards. Also, open the online calculator...
PBS
Pbs Lesson Plan (Affluenza): Credit Quandaries
"Credit cards are not free money." Just how do credit cards work? This site provides a instructional activity in which learners investigate the lure of credit card companies, the pitfalls of credit debt, and the impact of credit debt on...
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.
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: Credit Card i.q.
Test your knowledge about credit cards by taking a quiz about the true tales of credit cards.
Thinkport Education
Maryland Public Television: Sense and Dollars
Engaging, fun tutorials and interactive games related to earning, spending, saving, and budgeting money.
Other
Business Education Resource Consortium: Accounting and Finance Online Manual
This online manual will provide examples of integrated performance activities developed to coordinate with the Accounting and Finance Career Path in the Business Education Career Path and Model Curriculum Standards. Included with the...
Other
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.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Is Paying Over Time a Smart Move?
At T.V. 411 you can explore the concept of paying over time with situations involving credit cards, rent to own items, and more. This interactive lesson gives the learner an opportunity to make decisions about money management.