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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Analyzing Credit Card Statements
Students conduct online research to become familiar with reading and analyzing credit card statements.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Getting a Credit Card and Using It Wisely
Young scholars conduct research to learn about credit cards and explore the effect that using a credit card can have on a person's credit score.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Being a Responsible Borrower
Students watch a role-play to learn about the behaviors of a responsible borrower and answer questions about borrowing.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Understanding Taxes and Your Paycheck
Students analyze statements about taxes to better understand how taxes affect people's paychecks.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Bouncing Ball Budgets
Through an interactive game, learners share spending decisions they've made in the past and start to think about their spending habits in new ways.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Bouncing Ball Money Choices
Students play a game to share how they think and feel about money.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Handling a Lost or Stolen Card
Students conduct research to learn what steps to take if they experience a lost or stolen ATM, debit, or credit card or card number. Includes teaching guide and student worksheet that can be filled in on a computer.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Playing an Insurance Game
Young scholars play a game to explore types of insurance and how they help protect people.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Composing Songs and Verse About Fraud
Students write a song, rap, or poem that warns people about identity theft and types of fraud. Includes teaching guide and student worksheet that can be filled in on a computer.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Playing an Insurance Matching Game
Young scholars play a game to demonstrate their understanding of how insurance reduces financial risk.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Saving Each Payday
Learners use a real-world simulation to learn how saving a little money each payday can be a successful strategy for saving. Includes teaching guide and student worksheet that can be filled in on a computer.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Getting Banked
Students select a local bank or credit union to research to learn about what to consider when choosing a financial institution. Includes teaching guide and student worksheet that can be filled in on a computer.
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Cfpb: Contrasting Long Term and Short Term Savings Goals
Students learn the difference between short-term and long-term savings goals and apply their knowledge in an exercise-oriented game.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Choosing How to Get Paid
Students explore and compare common payment methods and pay periods that employers use. They apply their learning by voting on their preferred methods in a class poll. Includes teaching guide and student worksheet that can be filled in...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Investigating Taxes in Your Life
Students play a game to explore how tax revenues pay for various events and services they encounter in daily life.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Telling the Difference Between Loan Myths
Knowing the difference between loan myths and realities can help you become a responsible borrower. Middle schoolers analyze statements about loans and decide whether they're a myth or reality.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Understanding Prepaid Cards
Students play a game and answer questions to learn about prepaid cards and explore whether they'd consider using them.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Tracking Income and Benefits
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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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Storing My Savings
Students read descriptions of common places to store their money and weigh the benefits and risks of each to decide which one(s) fit their financial goals.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Setting a Smart Savings Goal
Learners discuss short-term and long-term goals and what makes a goal SMART. They then create their own short-term savings goal and make an action plan to meet that goal.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau:discovering the Benefits of Investing Early
Students use an online calculator and answer questions to learn about the value of investing early.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Creating a Buying Plan
Students practice creating a buying plan and apply this strategy to provide buying advice to others.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Saving for Post Secondary Education
Students use an online compound interest calculator to answer questions and create charts that show the value of saving money over time for future education goals.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Ways to Pay for Higher Education
Students use the Internet to explore ways to pay for their higher education and record their findings in an informational brochure.