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Certified Financial Planner: Board of Standards

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the home page of the CFP Board of Standards. The site describes what a Certified Financial Planner(CFP) is, how one becomes a CFP, and how CFPs benefit consumers.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Banks & Credit Unions (Part I)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about banks and credit unions, identifying similarities and differences between the two types of financial institution. They also evaluate a local bank and credit union to determine which one would be better suited to...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Avoiding Debt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers read a short story and a handout to learn about excessive debt and ways to avoid or reduce debt.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Tracking Income and Benefits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Economy for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
Hearing about the economy can be scary, especially when you don't know what it all means. Scholastic provides a glossary of economic terms, explanations about the problems facing the U.S., and ways to actually spend less in our own lives.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Lesson Plan: Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich..

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This multipart lesson plan the cost of opportunities when you have limited resources. It uses the hilarious children's book, "Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday" by Judith Viorst to drive the lesson home.
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Consumer Action

For Students 9th - 10th
Consumer Action serves consumers nationwide by advancing consumer rights, referring consumers to complaint-handling agencies through their free hotline, publishing educational materials in Chinese, English, Korean, Spanish, Vietnamese...
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Business Education Resource Consortium: Accounting and Finance Online Manual

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: That's All I Have to Spend for a Whole Month?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
As a part of the study of personal economics, middle schoolers will research a career, costs of rent, insurance, food, transportation, etc. and prepare a monthly budget based on their research.
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Federal Reserve Bank

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Why Is Good Credit Important?

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Creating a Budget

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed lesson highlights strategies to use to create a sound financial budget.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Working in a Global Economy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Debating the theories of globalization? Take advantage of the reading recommended here as well as the possibilities for discussion topics.
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University of Missouri

University of Missouri St. Louis:wise Pockets: Kermit the Hermit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: It's My Life Managing Money: Spending and Saving

For Students 3rd - 8th
It is important for kids to learn how to manage their own money. This section of It's My Life-Managing Money focuses on spending and saving. Additional topics including money goals, expenses, savings, budgeting, and money tips are listed...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: It's My Life Spending Smarts Think Before You Buy!

For Students 3rd - 8th
It is important for kids to learn how to manage and spend their money properly. This section of It's My Life - Spending Smarts include a number of different topics relating to wise shopping and purchases.
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Debt

For Students 9th - 10th
This website focuses on debt including debt load, debt basics, borrowing, bankruptcy, and getting out of debt.
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Other

Austin Community College: 3 1 Simple Interest

For Students 9th - 10th
Austin Community College provides an explanation of the simple interest formula along with some example problems. Provides the correct answers if you click in the empty boxes.
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College Grad

College Grad: New Job Proverbs

For Students 9th - 10th
Words of wisdom and helpful tips to guide you in your new career and new life after college.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Analysis: Simple and Compound Interest

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students solve real-world problems involving simple and compound interest. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and...
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Nolo

Nolo: An Overview of Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

For Students 9th - 10th
This page from Nolo provides an overview of what happens during the process of Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
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Other

Legal Guide for Immigrants to Maine

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive but easily understood legal guide for noncitizens in Spanish and English. Though directed to immigrants to Maine, the basic principles apply to immigrants to any state in the United States.
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: The Causes Behind Hunger in America

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource discusses hunger in America and explores the reasons behind it. In question and answer form, discussions include housing costs, poverty, food insecurity, and the many other problems the poor face. (Published Nov. 22, 2005)
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Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: Multiple Percents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Have you ever seen an item that you wanted on sale for 15% of its original price? Have you tried to figure out what the sale price would be? Using this interactive lesson from T.V. 411, you can learn to calculate discounts with percentages.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Work, Earnings and Economics: Using Lyddie by Katherine Paterson

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In reading and discussing Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson, students examine basic economic concepts and explore the growth of labor unions and the role of government in a market economy.

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