STANDARDS
Jump$tart:
Grade: 5
Type: Game
Time: 60 minutes
Synopsis: You work at a community bank, helping customers get good loans and save for their future. Mr. Boar and his clerks from a payday loan company have infiltrated your bank! They want to take over and profit from making bad loans to unsuspecting customers. Rally the troops to stop them! Defeat Mr. Boar and his blue minions to win back the bank!
Type: LessonActivity SheetWorkbook
Time: 30 minutes
Students share several chapters from the book Not for a Billion Gazillion Dollars
Type: Comprehensive Curriculum
JA More than Money introduces students to financial literacy and entrepreneurship, and to social studies learning objectives.
Time: 45 minutes
Program provides students with practical information about the nation’s free market system
Type: Activity SheetWorkbook
Cost/Benefit Analysis; Opportunity Cost. Compound Interest
Grade: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
This lesson introduces the basics of saving, the various ways to save and some of the trade-offs involved in making saving decisions.
Grade: 3, 4, 5
The specific mathematics standards for which tasks and lessons using personal finance content can engage students and strengthen learning
On-line game allows young children to navigate a world, making life decisions that will affect whether their virtual bank accounts shrink or grow.
Type: Lesson
"Money Matters" Explain the difference between needs and wants.
"Get Set for Goals." Identify and develop ways to set short- term and long-term goals for saving. Explain the importance of setting goals for saving. Identify things that might affectdecisions to spend or save money.
