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Teaching financial literacy to children: 5 best money apps for kids.
Try out these activities, challenges and calculators. Some deal with spending, some with saving, some with borrowing. See just how sharp your money smarts are.
The United States Mint H.I.P. Pocket Change™ Web site is all about coins! And taking a close look at coins can help a youngster begin to grow into a fiscally responsible adult! Check out some of this site's fun activities and lesson plans that promote basic economic understanding.
Your $: Financial Literacy for Kids.
Teaching Financial Literacy
to Kids.
Money as You Grow.
Financial Literacy Fun.
The 5 Most Important Money Lessons to Teach Your Kids.
The knowledge and wisdom students gain with real-world, hands-on, meaningful experiences is the foundation of My School Bank. Teachers are welcome to use a variety of tools, and each School Bank program can include a selection of curriculums and activities.
My School Bank works with sponsoring banks to be a powerful resource and benefit to each school it serves.
Recommended curriculums:
Texas Council of Economic Education
The recent recession and slow recovery strongly suggest that Americans need to have a healthier economic lifestyle—one that emphasizes savings and reduces debt. Yet our “spend now and worry about the bills later” attitude is a hard habit to break. So how do we establish a SMARTER TEXAS: one that allows families a comfortable, economically secure lifestyle maintained by the use of sound economic and financial principles?
The Texas Council on Economic Education (TCEE) has a vision that by working with kindergarten through grade 12 educators, TCEE can establish the seeds of a healthier U. S. economy and personal financial stability. TCEE’s goal is to provide teachers with hands-on lessons and programs that allow students to practice implementing real life economic and financial skills, and thus pave the way to a life of economic security and a Smarter Texas. As a 501(c) 3 nonprofit founded in 1949 and incorporated in 1969, TCEE has strong program roots throughout the state.
TCEE offers free curriculums, the Stock Market Game, Student Challenges, Economics TEKS, and many other resources for teachers, such as student engagement activities and competitions, and including:
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Free Economics Class Books
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Free Math and Personal Financial Books
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Free History and Socials Studies Books
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Free Entrepreneurial and Personal Financial Literacy Books K-12
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Free Language and Personal Finance K-12
FDIC Money Smart for Young People
The FDIC’s new Money Smart for Young People series features four free age-appropriate curriculums that are designed to promote financial understanding in young people. Money Smart for Young People curriculums are available for:
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Grades Pre-K-2,
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Grades 3-5,
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Grades 6-8, and
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Grades 9-12.
The innovative standards-aligned curriculums can be incorporated into subjects such as English language arts, Mathematics and Social Studies.
Special features of each curriculum are:
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Multiple lessons that can be taught alone or in combination,
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Ideas for grade-level modification,
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Real-life exercises and examples, and
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Suggestions for optional books or online games/tools that can reinforce student understanding.
They are available for immediate download.
Building Your Future Financial Literacy curriculum resource
The Actuarial Foundation is proud to make Building Your Future, an award-winning financial literacy curriculum resource, available to U.S. high schools. Building Your Future is designed to help teens master the elements of personal finance and prepare for life on their own.
Building Your Future gives students multiple opportunities to practice core skills and showcases the real-world impact of the financial decisions they make. Each of the four books in the series are classroom-ready with a teacher's guide that includes handouts, answer keys, instruction and assessment suggestions. Building Your Future aligns with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Jump$tart Coalition for Financial Literacy.
FoolProof's Financial Literacy Curriculum is free, web-driven, highly interactive, and self-grading.
Our middle school and high school curriculum was developed with input from teachers, students, and consumer advocates, not with input from marketers. We teach kids to be skeptical of anyone or any company that wants to touch their money or their welfare. Our online "modules" teach young people personal financial responsibility and consumer self-defense skills.
Classroom activities and individual essay assignments are also included to reinforce module lessons. FoolProof's modules take students about 22 45-minute sessions to complete. You can use one or all modules, and modules can be assigned as homework.
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FoolProof is free and will always be free. Is there a catch? No.
Practical Money Skills for Life
Give your students a deeper understanding of money management using a curriculum offered by Practical Money Skills. Here you’ll find lesson plans for students of all ages – from preschoolers and elementary school students to teens and college students. We also offer course materials for students with special needs.
Topics range from the basics for the very young, such as “What is Money?” and “Spending Plans” to more comprehensive courses for young adults who are about to venture off into financial independence. These more advanced courses cover everything from budgeting and bill paying to the influence of advertising and issues of consumer privacy.
Here, educators will find everything they need to teach a class on personal finance. Our lecture guides, worksheets and even quizzes and tests are free to download and ready to use.