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IBAT Career Day Tool Kits

This site teaches personal finance concepts through the use of children's books for grades  3 - 6.   

Here are over a thousand sites to give you ideas for subjects including Mathematics.

The American Family’s Financial Turmoil

This is a good source of articles about financial literacy in the NY Times for High School.

This is a good source for articles to help you teach children about money. 

Here are some super links for your students in a variety of financial topics. http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2010/04/02/national-financial-literacy-month-2010/

Here is a great site for information and a quiz for your students about money. http://www.wdfi.org/ymm/kids/history/quiz.asp

www.fdic.gov/about/learn/learning/index.html
Learning Bank is set up to teach and entertain children, teachers and parents. 

Education World
A site for mathematics games and lesson plans for teachers.

The Card Game: The Deal With Overdrafts

Building Your Future
One free copy of  teacher's and student's editions available through October 2009. This material helps students grasp the essentials of personal finance, offers opportunities to practice core skills and showcases the real-world impact of the financial decisions they make.

www.feedthepig.org/about
This website will remind you to feed your piggy bank using fun tools, a quiz, tons of tips and other resources.

Foundation for Financial Literacy

Texas Jump Start - Financial smarts for students

Kids.gov Money

www.themint.org
Provides tips and activities to help you teach 6-12 graders how to manage money wisely.

www.edutopia.org
Provides hands-on activites and real-world projects in economics, money management, and business skills.

www.valueyourmoney.org 

Smart About Money

360 Degrees of Financial Literacy

Don't Laugh at Me
The basis for 'Operation Respect' to eliminate bullying, ridicule and violence in our schools.

www.microSociety.org
An innovative way to help kids learn about real life by taking an active role in their learning through a curriculum that focuses on real world settings.

library.thinkquest.org
This web site, designed by kids for kids, examines stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and such, and teaches the principles of saving and investing. A stock game is also included.

Junior Achievement
Hands-on experiences to help young people understand the economics of life.

LEI (Learning, Earning, and Investing) is a comprehensive investor education program for middle and high school students focusing on benefits of and strategies for investing for long term.

Department of the Treasury for Kids

JrFinance.com
Provides personal finance, credit education, investor education, and homebuyer education to youth and adults.

Newly Revised Building Wealth - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Unbiased Information on Saving and Investing

Resources for High School Teachers

Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition, Teacher Lounge
Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition, Current Issue

Financial Security in Later Life, Tools for Teachers

Articles and links just for you.

NEFE High School Financial Planning Program.

Econ EdLink is a free Web site featuring Web-based economics and personal finance lesson plans for grades K-12.

Financial Fitness for Life is a complete personal finance curriculum for grades K-12.

Operation Hope
Promoting financial literacy for the underserved

Money In Motion
Financial literacy program to help teachers educate grades 7-12 on basic financial skills.

Education Appreciation
A time-saving internet resource created by teachers for teachers.

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Community Affairs

JA Student Center - Learn about ethics

Financial Literacy 2010 - A national campaign to increase the average high school student's savvy about personal finance and investment
 
Banking Kids - "Teaching financial literacy to kids"
 
www.italladdsup.org/
Web-based interactive program designed to help high school students and teachers understand responsible personal finance management skills and proper care and use of credit.
 
MyMoney.gov
Understand more about your money: how to save it, invest it, and manage it to meet your personal goals. Spanish version here.

www.practicalmoneyskills.com
A free resource designed to help educators, parents, and students practice better money management for life.

Money Math: Lessons for Life
A four-lesson curriculum supplement for middle school math classes, teaching grades 7-9 math concepts using real-life examples from personal finance.

Articles

Point, Click, and Save: Mashup Mom’s Guide to Saving and Making Money Online by Rachel Singer Gordon provides easy to understand advice and resources for saving money.

Federal Citizen Information Center: Articles on Money, Credit, Investing, and Savings

Simple quiz for April's Financial Literacy Month - read

The Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement - read

Your First Year of Retirement - Do You Know how Much You'll be Able to Spend? - read