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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Consumer Tools
Useful age-appropriate lessons and activities meant to educate kids about their finances as they grow. Geared toward ages 3 through 18+, each module identifies 4 specific milestones students should understand in order to achieve...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Choosing the Best Cell Phone Plan for You
Learners research the features and costs of cell phones and cell phone plans and use a decision matrix to compare options and determine the best one for their needs, wants, and budget.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Making Spending Decisions
Students practice a commonly used decision-making model called PACED to help make spending decisions.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Playing a Credit and Debit Game
Students play a game to practice and explore positive credit and debit card behaviors.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Evaluating Savings Scenarios
By analyzing real-world scenarios, students practice making informed decisions about savings tools to meet financial situations and needs. Includes teaching guide, a handout on options for saving money, and a student worksheet that can...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Financial Literacy Activities
A large collection of lesson plans and activities for high school students. The activities can be completed within a single class period. Each activity comes with a teacher guide and supporting student material, so it's easy to implement...
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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...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Paying for College
A website dedicated to helping students make informed financial decisions through their road to college. Website focues on filling out financial aid to choosing a loan.
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Cfpb: Distinguishing Between Earned and Unearned Income
Students play a game to help them learn the difference between earned and unearned income.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Creating a Savings First Aid Kit
Students learn the importance of developing an emergency savings fund to deal with unexpected challenges and unplanned expenses.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Comparing Stock Investments
Students learn how calculating capital gains and capital losses can help them evaluate stock investments.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Managing Credit Card Payments
Students use a simple formula to calculate the true cost of items bought with a credit card.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Avoiding Debt
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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Cfpb: Understanding How Insurance Works: A Case Study About Lucy
Students read about how insurance works, then review a case study to see how insurance choices can affect personal finances for a rural young adult.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Exploring Savings Habits
Students learn about the benefits of forming their own savings habits and explore what it looks like to save a percentage of income.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Exploring the Minimum Wage
Students conduct research on a U.S. Department of Labor webpage to learn about the minimum wage and some laws affecting workers.
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Cfpb: Investigating Payroll Tax and Federal Income Tax Withholding
Young scholars analyze W-4 forms and paystubs in order to better understand payroll taxes and federal income tax withholding.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Calculating the Numbers in Your Paycheck
Students review a pay stub from a sample paycheck to understand the real-world effect of taxes and deductions on the amount of money they take home.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Investigating Investing
Students explore the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's investor.gov website to learn about some common types of financial investment products.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Creating a Presentation on 529 Plans
Students conduct Internet research on 529 plans and create a digital slide presentation to inform others about how these plans can help people save for future education costs.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Calculating Rate of Return
Students calculate the rate of return to measure an investment's performance and answer questions about investing.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Comparing Saving and Investing
Students explore the differences between saving and investing and answer questions about which one they'd use to reach different financial goals.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Banking Basics Card Game
Students play a game to learn about common banking products and services and to consider which ones they might use now and in the future.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Acting Out Fraud
Students act out a skit to learn about different types of fraud.