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.
Practical Money Skills
Visa: Practical Money Skills for Life: Financial Football
Football-themed game tests your consumer-finance aptitude regarding interest, banking, credit, budgeting, saving, and spending.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Cards, Cars, and Currency
A unit on personal finance related to debit cards, credit cards, and purchasing a car designed to help students develop financial responsibility.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Q T Pi Fashions Learning About Credit Card Use
Credit cards are convenient, user-friendly, and at times dangerous. In this lesson plan, students learn the joys and dangers of using credit as they help Credit, the main character in this activity, solve her credit problems.
PBS
Pbs Lesson Plan (Affluenza): Credit Quandaries
"Credit cards are not free money." Just how do credit cards work? This site provides a lesson in which students investigate the lure of credit card companies, the pitfalls of credit debt, and the impact of credit debt on our society....
Other
Experian: Ab Cs of Credit Reporting [Pdf]
Students will learn how credit reporting works, what's in a credit report, and how poor financial decisions can affect this record for years to come. Includes teacher materials ,student materials, and answer keys.
Other
Experian: New Credit
Information for late high school students about how to handle credit cards, using the metaphor of playing a card game.
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.
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...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: A Consumer Economy
The booming economy of the 1920s introduced new products and ways of paying for those products. Read about the increase in the kinds of household appliances, places to buy the appliances, and the financing of all those new consumer goods.
Other
Streetlaw: Consumer and Housing Law
Read about contracts, warranties, credit, deceptive sales practices, cars, and housing--important topics for consumers. This website provides introductory material to each of the above topics and links for further information and research.
Other
Experian: Credit Score Basics
[PDF] An explanation of credit scores and credit reports from one of the three major credit reporting companies.
PBS
Pbs: Financial Literacy: On the Money
Explore PBS's "On The Money," program for teens to investigate teens & money, budgeting, bank accounts, credit cards, calculators, and moneymaking ideas.
Other
Wisconsin Educational Communications Board: Financial Literacy: Teach It!
Students at all grade levels learn about basic finance skills and explore ways to make informed decisions about their financial future.
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
Junior Achievement: Save Usa Interactive Lessons
Interactive money management lessons teach about spending, saving money, financial responsibility, credit, and financial planning.
Cato Institute
Atm Surcharges and the Expansion of Consumer Choice
This site is an essay that by advocates of ATM surcharges.
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.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
This page from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta provides access to information in the following categories: the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Federal Reserve System, Banking & Finance, Economics, Publications, Search, Site...
MsMoney
Ms Money: Deciphering Your Bank Statement
This site explains the items that appear on a bank statement and also includes procedures for reconciling a bank statement. Click on the headings for more information. Also, explore the additional financial topics by clicking menu items.
CNN
Cnn: Senate Wall Street Reform Bill
CNN briefly discusses the bill, passed by the The Senate, that overhauls the U. S. financial system and establishes a consumer financial protection regulatory agency that would regulate mortgages and credit cards. This legislation is...
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission: Buying a New Car
Most students won't be buying a new car while in high school, or just out of high school, but it would be good practice for them to go through the motions on paper.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills for Life: Lesson Plans
A series of financial literacy lesson plans broken out by grade range for grades from Pre-K through college, with an additional set of lessons created for students with special needs.