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April is Financial Literacy Month!

Financial Literacy Month - Resources for High School

Use these Grade 9-12 resources as you celebrate Financial Literacy Month. Teach a different theme each week – Earning Income, Saving and Investing, Spending and Budgeting, and Managing Credit and Risk.

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April is Financial Literacy Month!

Financial Literacy Month - Middle School Resources

Use these Grade 6 – 8 resources as you celebrate Financial Literacy Month. Teach a different theme each week – Earning Income, Saving and Investing, Spending and Budgeting, and Managing Credit and Risk.

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April is Financial Literacy Month!

Financial Literacy Month - Resourcs for Grades K-5

Use these K-5 resources as you celebrate Financial Literacy Month. Teach a different theme each week – Earning Income, Saving and Investing, Spending and Budgeting, and Borrowing.

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Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Power Up Your Economics & Personal Finance Instruction with Design Thinking!

Design thinking skills are creative, innovative problem-solving skills for the…

Apr 21
7:00-8:00pm ET

Grades 6-8, 9-12, Higher Education

Rockonomics 101: History, Economics, Rock and Roll

This presentation explores how music can serve as a powerful…

Nov 11
7:00-8:00pm ET

6-8, 9-12

Basics of Personal Finance Video Collection

Learn the basics of personal finance by watching 2-5 minute concept videos on current event topics like insuranc…

6-8, 9-12

Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues

Help your middle school and high school students think critically with 16 ready-made lessons about ethical issue…

9-12

Financial Fitness For Life 9-12, 3rd Edition

Financial Fitness for Life, 9-12 Third Edition is a CEE publication that helps teachers prepare students for lif…

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Personal Finance Bell Ringers, Warm-ups, and Hooks

In this personal finance activity, teachers will be able to find a variety of bell ringers and warm-ups.

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Personal Finance

5 mins

Activity

Grades 9-12

Personal Finance Looping Cards: Spiraling Reality into the Classroom

Students use a looping activity to review personal finance vocabulary.

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Budgeting/Money Managment, Buying Goods and Services…

45 mins

Lesson

Grades 9-12

Thinking in Webs: Hexagon Personal Finance Puzzle

In this personal finance lesson, students will use hexagonal thinking to define and make connections linking personal finance terms and...

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making, Personal Finance

60 mins

Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Teaching PACED Decision Making in Grades 6-12

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making

Video

Grades 6-8

Mario's Choice - Decision Making and Opportunity Cost

In this middle school lesson, students use decision-making skills to solve a scarcity problem and then write their own stories...

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Buying Goods and Services, Decision Making…

45 mins

Lesson

Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

National Content Standards in K- 12 Economics

This economics manual provides a framework for teaching economics in kindergarten through 12th grade.

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts

Manual