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Financial Fitness for Life Check out these new e-Book versions of the Council for Economic Education’s popular Financial Fitness for Life® Parent Guides. Parent Guides are a first-time-ever curriculum developed for parents to begin sharing Financial Fitness for Life® with their childre…

This lesson uses the Better Money Habits video Steps to Help You Get Out of Debt to explain the concept of debt.

In this personal finance lesson, students explore budget constraints by solving a contextual problem.

International trade allows countries to buy and sell both domestic and foreign goods, as well as services and financial assets. A country's transactions are summarized in a set of accounts called the "Balance of Payments (BOP)." Students will learn how to record transactions in the BOP acco…

Adjust the numbers in this interactive to see if you can balance the budget. This interactive is intended for use with our National Budget Simulation lesson plan.

In this economics lesson, students will examine political forces influencing the federal budget.

Students will learn how productivity and government policy influences the distribution of income and create and analyze Lorenz curves and the Gini coefficient.

Students use a looping activity to review personal finance vocabulary.

In this lesson students learn about banks and banking. The study the fractional reserve system, and the role the Fed plays in the money creation process.

Students will investigate the concept of total cost of ownership. They will brainstorm the costs of owning a dog or a cat. Students will calculate the total cost of ownership to help determine which might be the best pet for them.