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This webinar presents an overview of the CEE publication Learning, Earning and Investing for a New Generation. Join one of the authors, Scott Niederjohn from Lakeland College, and learn how the authors improved this curriculum resource for classroom use. Scott will highlight some of his favo…

In this personal finance lesson, students will learn to compound interest and amortization to calculate the cost of a car.

Washington state has the highest minimum wage in the nation at $9.32. Can the state’s low-wage workers can meet their basic needs without assistance? Economics correspondent Paul Solman explores the quality of life for a baggage handler at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport and an employee of McDonald's.

In this personal finance lesson, students explore entrepreneurship by earning money and advertising their business. Learners are given advice on how they can earn extra money by becoming an entrepreneur. After investigating several web pages that offer examples of what other people …

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 2: Invest in Yourself from CEE's Learning Earning and Investing for a New Generation publication (Lesson 3 in the previous version). To explore the concept that people invest in themselves through education, the students work in two groups an…

This lesson is designed to acquaint students with the relationship between earnings and education. The data are very clear regarding one’s earning potential and educational attainment. That is, the more education an individual has the greater his or her earning potential. This is an…

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 1: Why Save? from CEE's Learning Earning and Investing for a New Generation publication. Following an introduction that defines saving, the students discuss the idea of "paying yourself first" and the reasons why people save. After reporting …

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 14: How are Stock Prices Determined from CEE's Learning Earning and Investing for a New Generation publication (Lesson 18 in the previous version). Students participate in a simulated stock market activity that shows how the price of a share …

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 5: What is a Bond? from CEE's Learning Earning and Investing for a New Generation publication (Lesson 6 in the previous version). Students learn what bonds are and how bonds work. They learn basic terminology related to bonds. They participat…

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 3: What is a Stock? from CEE's Learning Earning and Investing for a New Generation publication (Lesson 4 in the previous version). The students work in small groups that represent households. Each household answers questions about stocks and …