Curated OER
Debit or Credit-You Decide
Learners identify the similarities and differences between an debit and credit card. In this debit or credit lesson plan, student explain the advantages and disadvantages of using cash and consumer credit to purchase good and services...
Curated OER
Consumer Credit: Buy Now, Pay Later, and More
Students explore the concept of consumer credit. In this consumer credit activity, students discuss the costs and benefits of buying with credit. Students examine scenarios to determine the costs and benefits of using a particular method...
Curated OER
Financial Literacy - Consumer Credit
Learners investigate consumer credit and how it works. They also examine basic types of credit, risks and responsibilities associated with credit, ways to establish and maintain good credit, ways to avoid hurting ones credit and what one...
Curated OER
Financial Literacy - Consumer Credit
Young scholars explore consumer credit and how it works.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: What's Up in Finance?: It Costs What?
An interactive game helps students learn the extra costs involved with using credit cards. Find out how a group of teens can purchase the exact same products in the same store yet pay different amounts for them.
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission: Consumer Information
The Federal Trade Commission has developed helpful investment articles and videos to assist consumers in making educated decisions about how they spend, manage and invest their money.
Organization for Community Networks
Academy Curricular Exchange: Consumer Borrowing and Saving
A lesson plan which has students learning the realities of borrowing and saving money.
University of Missouri
University of Missouri: Wise Pockets: Four Dollars and Fifty Cents
This is a lesson geared towards elementary level students. Using the book Four Dollars and Fifty Cents by Eric Kimmel, the teacher instructs students about the terms creditor, debtor, collateral, credit, and credit report. Lesson...
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...
Other
Southwestern Academy: The 1950s: The Search for Consensus and Conformity [Pdf]
A good review of the culture of the 1950s including a look at big business at the time, the affluent society, and the beginnings of youthful rebellion.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: 1920s Consumption
In the 1920s, assembly line production and easy credit made it possible for ordinary Americans to purchase many new consumer goods.
Cornell University
Cornell University: Law School: Consumer Credit Overview
Resource provides an overview of what consumer credit is. It gives several examples of consumer credit such as credit cards, loans, and mortgages.