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Unit Plan
Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Checking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson teaches students about the ins and outs of opening and keeping a checking account.
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Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Paying for College Data Crunch

For Students 9th - 10th
Data Crunches feature one chart or graph followed by five scaffolded questions to guide students through analyzing the data and drawing conclusions. These pertain to paying for college.
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Graphic
Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Career Data Crunch

For Students 9th - 10th
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 career concepts.
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Graphic
Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Investing Data Crunch

For Students 9th - 10th
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 investment concepts.
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Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Types of Credit Data Crunch

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Insurance Data Crunch

For Students 9th - 10th
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 insurance concepts.
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Graphic
Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Taxes Data Crunch

For Students 9th - 10th
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 tax concepts.
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Unit Plan
Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Types of Credit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lessons and activities to teach students about types of credit.
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Unit Plan
Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Managing Credit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lessons and activities to teach students about managing credit.
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Unit Plan
Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Insurance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teach students about different types of insurance, and why it's important.
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Unit Plan
Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Budgeting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lessons and activities to teach students about creating and living within a budget.
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Unit Plan
Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Investing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lessons and activities to teach students about investing.
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Unit Plan
Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance: Careers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Help students learn about career options, life skills they might need to develop, and how to pursue a career.
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Website
Other

Jump$tart: Clearinghouse

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Find over three hundred resources that help in advancing financial literacy among students. Resources vary from website links, lesson plans, and online games.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: The Politics of Global Financial Relations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Take advantage of these resources when analyzing the effects of the globalization of finances domestically and worldwide.
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Handout
US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Financial Analysts

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the nature of the work of a financial analyst or a personal financial advisor. Includes the job market outlook and salary expectations.
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Website
Practical Money Skills

Visa: Practical Money Skills for Life

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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,...
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Interactive
Other

Junior Achievement: Save Usa Interactive Lessons

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive money management lessons teach about spending, saving money, financial responsibility, credit, and financial planning.
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Unit Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Econ Ed Link Collection

For Students K - 1st Standards
Use this collection of economic education lessons for K-12 teachers and students to improve financial literacy. One interesting feature is "This Day In Economic History," a calendar which identifies an interesting event for each day,...
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Lesson Plan
Federal Reserve Bank

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia: Let's Get Financially Focused! [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Should I use credit? This lesson plan provides some insight into why or when it is good to use credit, versus why or when it is not.
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Activity
Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: Is Paying Over Time a Smart Move?

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Handout
Other

Balance Track: Finances for College Students: Credit Cards

For Students 9th - 10th
From BalanceTrack, this section provides students with information about what to look for in a credit card and how to use credit.
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Website
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Guide to Financial Management

For Students 9th - 10th
The ultimate source for learning about financial management. This site contains an online book on financial management geared for administrators and staff at the university.
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Other

National Endowment for Financial Education: Smart About Money

For Students 9th - 10th
On this site students can learn about financial planning and the many decisions adults have to make during life events and their money. Helpful tips, printable worksheets and links to additional resources are provided on a wide variety...