Financial Literacy
Financial Freedom
Financial Freedom
Financial Freedom for Kids
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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
Strive to Drive
Strive to Drive
Table-Sized Discovery Map® and Card Set
Grade Levels 6-12
Strive to Drive is a fun, fast-paced program that allows students to make collective decisions related to the purchase of a car. They’ll learn to research and negotiate prices, get and keep a job, secure loans and insurance, make decisions about deductibles, plan for car maintenance and more.
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.
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
National Council on Economic Education
Financing your Future
Free if attending regional workshop or $99 through NCEE
Teacher unit materials and DVD
Grade Levels K-12
With 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.
Workbooks
are provided free of charge to schools by the Florida Council on Economic
Education.