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FINANCIAL LITERACY: ON THE MONEY is a DVD that highlights the rewards of money management and how it can give young people a head-start to financial independence. Experts give tips on opening checking and savings accounts, avoiding credit card problems, and how to create a personal budget. An economics teacher explains how supply and demand, inflation, interest rates, and opportunity costs relate to teen lives. Also with Spanish subtitles.
YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS -- BE YOUR OWN BOSS is a DVD that shows how a Junior Achievement volunteer from New York trains high school students in financial literacy skills as they develop their ideas into business plans. We also meet ambitious teens who have created successful businesses such as a magician, musician, jewelry designer, sports store owner, furniture designer and a personal trainer. They share their motivations, experiences, rewards (emotional and financial) and advice on entrepreneurship.
$ucce$$ PROGRAM (aka Success Program), by James Langford, is a video based financial literacy curriculum. Lessons each take 20-35 minutes, including video, classroom activity, and classroom discussion. Lessons include saving, banking, debt, investing, and an online stock market game, Virtual Stock Exchange (VSE), from MarketWatch. More lessons being added continually.
10 QUESTIONS TO ASK WHEN CHOOSING A FINANCIAL PLANNER is a brochure that will help you interview and evaluate several financial planners to find one that’s right for you. It will help you select a competent, qualified professional with whom you feel comfortable, one whose business style suits your financial planning needs. An interview checklist is included for your convenience.
21st CENTURY MONEY MANAGEMENT is a 5-DVD set that contains the following titles: Checking Accounts, Saving, Credit Cards, Loans, and Financial Planning. Young people learn the basics of online banking and gain important knowledge and skill in how to manage money successfully.
360 DEGREES OF FINANCIAL LITERACY is a website where consumers can find extensive free resources to help them make sound financial decisions through every stage of life, from childhood to retirement. The site is free from all advertising, sales and promotions.
5 LAWS OF CREDIT provides simple approach to understanding the criteria lenders such as banks, car dealerships and landlords use when considering a person's creditworthiness. The 5 Laws address a person's character, conditions (such as length of employment and income level) capital (net worth) collateral (things you own) and cash flow (does your income exceed your expenses?).
A CONSUMER'S GUIDE TO E-PAYMENTS provides tips on how to make online transactions as safe and secure as possible. Although fraud and deception on the Internet cannot be controlled, steps can be taken to recognize, avoid and report it. Most consumers use credit or debit cards to pay for online purchases, but other payment methods, like e-wallets, are becoming more common.
A FINANCIAL FLOWER GARDEN helps students expand their knowledge of whole number computation by solving multiplication and division math problems. Students use online technology and other reference materials to research their projects. The United States Mint H.I.P. Pocket Change™ Web site (www.usmint.gov/kids) offers many additional free educational resources in personal finance.
In this lesson, students read a story about a young girl, Sara. Having always made gifts, Sara wants to buy a gift for Mama. Students create/illustrate a booklet describing Sara's and their short-term savings goals. Lesson uses the children's book, A GIFT FOR MAMA, by Esther Hautzig.
"A Penny Saved" explains why and how people save, and the importance of saving to the U.S. economy. The cartoon-style booklet focuses on advantages and disadvantages of various savings methods, such as U.S. Savings Bonds, stocks, and mutual funds. The concept of compound interest is explained. All public info materials are for download only on the website, www.ny.frb.org
The video and teaching guide help students understand the power of compound interest or how money can grow with time. Use A PENNY SAVED to teach the basics of interest, compounding, liquity, yield, inflation, and savings choices.
A PRINCESS LOVES TO SAVE is a fun and colorful book that inspires girls to save, spend wisely and share. The images and ideas create enthusiasm among girls and gets them excited about saving. It is suitable in elementary classrooms and can be used with the PRINCESS MONEY MANAGER SAVINGS BANK.
ENCHANTED COLLAR is an adventure story series designed to teach children aged 7 and older financial lessons, including budgeting, savings, spending, banking, credit, insurance, and job skills. In Book 1: A STRANGE GIFT, a puppy named Eli gets a strange gift and learns the use of money and the importance of honesty and dependability.
A STUDENT'S INTRODUCTION TO INSURANCE explains the concepts, principles and origins of insurance. Students learn about the most common types of insurance: LIFE, HEALTH and AUTO. Typical auto insurance coverages are explained, including bodily injury liability, personal injury protection, property damage liability, collision, comprehensive, and uninsured motorist coverage. Also included are teen crash statistics, what to do if you are involved in an accident, and tips on reducing premiums.
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