Financial Literacy
Financial Freedom
Financial Freedom
Financial Freedom en Espanol
Student Workbook, CD ROM and PDF
Grade Levels K - 12
Offered at no cost to you, Financial Freedom is a student
workbook designed to improve middle and high school
students’ financial literacy while reinforcing FCAT tested
skills. Each section of the workbook contains interesting
facts and information, personal finance vocabulary,
illustrative worksheets and more! Sections include:
- Managing Cash
- Banking Basics
- Job Search
- Consumer Credit and Debit
- Automobiles
- Automobile Insurance
- Finding a Place to Live
Katrina in the Classroom
Katrina in the Classroom: financial lessons from a hurricane
Free DVD with Accompanying Curriculum
Grade Levels 6-12
Meet Nick, Jacquelyn, and Jamie. Through these teenagers’ stories, middle and high school students and their families will learn the importance of being financially prepared.
Katrina’s Classroom: Financial Lessons from a Hurricane is a four-chapter, DVD-based curriculum that teaches students about financial responsibilities such as budgeting, banking, savings, and wise use of credit. The curriculum includes lesson plans and student activities tied to each five-minute video segment.
Financing your Future
Financing your Future
Free if attending regional workshop or $99 through NCEE
Teacher unit materials and DVD
Grade Levels K-12With Financing Your Future, you’ll use a rich mixture of 5 video segments and 15 in-class activities (3 for each video segment) to give your students a solid grounding in key personal finance concepts.
Virtual Economics V3.0
virtual economics V3.0
Free if attending regional workshop or $99 through NCEE
Grade Levels K-12he Virtual Economics®: Version 3.0 CD-ROM is an interactive tool that helps you understand the most important concepts in economics and personal finance and find the right lessons to teach them at your grade level. The CD-ROM allows you to search a database of over 1,200 lessons by grade level, concept, Voluntary National Content Standard in Economics or your state economics standards. Then view and print the lessons you want. The CD-ROM also contains multimedia explanations for 51 key economic concepts and a glossary with over 500 economics terms and definitions.
Financial Fitness for Life
financial fitness for life
CD ROM and Multiple Activities Books
Prices Vary, avilable through NCEE
Grade Levels K-12
FFFL helps students understand the basics of economics and personal investing, spending and saving. Some of the skills they will gain from this curriculum include:
- Teaches younger students the ABC’s of how to manage money and make smart choices while they learn to read, add and subtract.
- Enhances the middle school child’s growing awareness of the world by imparting knowledge of how the world works.
- Helps high school students consider the future, set goals and make realistic plans for their futures.
- Gives students at every level the opportunity to learn by doing.
- Moves in a developmentally sensitive way from concrete to abstract learning.
- Uses web links and a CD-ROM for interactive and technology-based experiences.
- Provides a start-to-finish personal financial education that is comprehensive, rewarding and enjoyable, and involves the whole family.
National Endowment for Financial Education
NEFE H.S. Financial Planning Program
Teacher and Student Workbook
Grade Levels 9-12
The NEFE HSFPP was designed and developed around a special type of education called performance-based learning. With performance-based learning, students take what they learn and apply it directly in the course of each unit. Carefully designed exercises and activities move the student step-by-step toward each of the seven core competencies that the program teaches. In the process, students
- Create their own financial plan
- Create their own budget
- Propose a personal saving and investing plan
- Select strategies to use in handling credit and managing their debt
- Demonstrate how to use various financial services
- Create a personal insurance plan
- Examine how their choice of career and lifestyle will affect their financial
plan