Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Don't Buy It: Get Media Smart!: Create a Pop Star

For Students 3rd - 5th
Follow the story line to create a pop star. You must make good financial choices to achieve success. You can also quiz yourself about commercials and other uses of music.
Interactive
Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Countdown to Retirement

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover whether your budgeting skills will leave you wealthy or land you in the poor house in this engaging interactive game. This game teaches practical life skills for developing sound budgeting practices and making good financial...
Lesson Plan
James Madison University

James Madison University: Online Elementary Economics Lessons

For Teachers K - 1st
James Madison University has developed a variety of online economic lessons for elementary students. Explore basic economic and financial concepts.
Activity
University of Texas at Austin

Francais Interactif Money, Finance & Investments

For Students 9th - 10th
Extensive vocabulary lists of all things financial. Video and audio clips to utilize vocab in context. Has interviews in French and links to internet activities and salient grammar points.
Website
Other

My Money

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Saving Money 2

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
The purpose of this task is for students to relate addition and subtraction problems to money and to situations and goals related to saving money. A problem is given that will contain multiple solutions, this allows students to think...
Graphic
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.
Website
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Cfpb): Private Mortgage Insurance (Pmi)

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the legalities of private mortgage insurance (PMI) and the law protecting homeowners from paying unnessary fees. Links to understanding the basics of PMI, PMI requirements, the Homeowner's Protection Act (PMI), how to cancel...
Handout
Goodwill

Gcf Global: Assessing How You Manage Money

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson examines how to manage your money safely.
Lesson Plan
Save And Invest

Finra Investor Education Foundation: The Emergency Fund

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan teaches students the importance of being financially prepared for unexpected expenses.
Lesson Plan
Save And Invest

Finra Investor Education Foundation: Debt Elimination

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan offers different strategies for eliminating debt and strengthening one's financial position and cash flow.
Article
CNN

Cnn: Senate Wall Street Reform Bill

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Article
Leaf Group

E How: How to Write a Business Analysis Paper

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
This article by Sam Ashe-Edmunds explains how to write a business analysis paper, an in-depth look at a business or company in terms of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, finances, employment, and attaining goals.
Activity
Genius Brands International

Secret Millionaires Club: Webisode Activities

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Backed by Warren Buffett, "the world's most famous investor," the Secret Millionaires Club teaches children about saving and investing money, about how businesses and credit cards work, and about the personal qualities that support...
Activity
Federal Trade Commission

Federal Trade Commission: You Are Here

For Students 5th - 8th
In this interactive mall environment, students learn how to make smart decisions as consumers. Whether shopping for clothes, choosing the best food deal, searching for a job or buying a cellphone, students will learn how to recognize...
Lesson Plan
Other

Actuarial Foundation: Building Your Future: Financing [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In book 2 from the Building Your Future series, students and teachers get resources and practice on how financing works, such as getting loans and buying insurance.
Lesson Plan
Other

Actuarial Foundation: Building Your Future: Investing [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
In book 3 of the Building Your Future series, students and teachers work on the concept of investing, including stock and bonds, mutual funds, risk and diversification, and inflation, through a combination of information and practice.
Lesson Plan
Other

Actuarial Foundation: Building Your Future: Succeeding [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through information, examples, and practice, students learn about the costs and advantages of post-secondary education, how to understand the potential earnings and benefits of a job, how to make a budget, and why it is important to...
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Widows in Israel

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, meet the widowed women of a village in the Galilee who overcame societal expectations and started their own business.
Lesson Plan
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...
Website
Other

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...
Unit Plan
Goodwill

Gcf Global: Creating a Budget

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed lesson highlights strategies to use to create a sound financial budget.
Article
Other

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: Crash of 1907 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A very interesting look at the Panic of 1907, the crash of stocks, the lack of faith in banks by depositors, especially in New York and Boston, and the rescue of the banks by J.P. Morgan. Calling on news reports of the time, this pdf...
Activity
Other

Economic Awareness Council: Getting Going: Your Money Goals [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial focuses on both the mind-set necessary for productive goal setting and the practicalities of how to determine realistic goals and plan the steps to meet them.