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Educator Essentials Forum Resources
Thanks for attending the Council for Economic Education’s sessions on Thursday during the Educator Essentials Forum and Friday during the Maine Jump$tart conference. We’ve placed all the links from Ruth Cookson’s presentations in one place to make it easier to find everything you need.
The go-to-place for K-12 economics and personal finance resources, providing high-quality lesson plans, videos, assessments, activities, professional development webinars, and more for educators.
Financial Fitness for Life Lesson Plan links
Links to the slides and/or activities with educational technology tools such as Kahoot! and/or Quizlet for each of the lessons in Financial Fitness for Life. PACED Decision Grid is available to download in the Decision Making Lesson.
Video: Tax Basics: Marginal Tax Code
Video explaining how a progressive tax code works using pockets for brackets. End at 2:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJhsjUPDulw
Taxes: Tic Tac Toe Student Game
https://econedlink.org/resources/taxes-tic-tac-toe/
Video: Standard vs. Itemized Deductions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP8PU0IAG7I
TurboTax simulation, where students practice filing taxes alongside a fictional user – Antonio Davis. https://intuit4education.app.intuit.com/home/simulation/turbotax/practicing_exploring_taxes
5-part simulation that goes more in-depth https://turbotax.everfi.com/tax-curriculum/
Budgeting Tools from Visa’s Practical Money Skills
https://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/en/resources/financial-calculators/budget-goals.html
CEE’s Compound Interest Calculator https://econedlink.org/resources/compound-interest-calculator/
Budget Odyssey Game
https://econedlink.org/resources/budget-odyssey-classifying-expenses/
Student Budget Analysis
https://econedlink.org/resources/student-budget-analysis-calculator/
Video – Money Management and Budgeting
https://econedlink.org/resources/budgeting-video-and-quiz/
Video – What Goes Into Your Credit Score?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozbGWLtZdoY
www.econedlink.org/national-economics-challenge
National Personal Finance Challenge
https://econedlink.org/national-personal-finance-challenge/
Invest In Girls
https://www.investingirls.org/for-students/
CEE’s 64th Financial Literacy and Economic Education Conference
New Orleans, LA October 17-18, 2025
https://www.councilforeconed.org/programs/for-teachers/educator-conference/
