Resources and Downloads for Financial Literacy

Explore resources and downloads for educators seeking to help students learn financial concepts, practice money management, and build strong financial decision-making and economic-reasoning skills.

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1st Graders Run Their Own Business

Meet Ashley Greenway! Ashley is a 1st grade teacher at Elm Street Elementary School in Rome, GA. With the support for Real World Scholars, Ashley and her students have been running Sugar Kids Beauty for the past two years. Sugar Kids Beauty (SKB) produces and sells sugar scrubs and bath sprinkles. The 1st graders run the entirety of the business, which includes marketing, shipping, and creative teams. Students craft their own social media posts, grow their own herbs, distill their own essential oils, and calculate profit margins.

Source: Buck Institute

Entrepreneurship Education Stresses Learning by Doing

Entrepreneurship education engages students in critical thinking and deepens their financial literacy. This article shares the power of Project Based Learning with ties to financial literacy.

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Financial Literacy From Age 5 On

Elementary students study saving, spending, and sharing on the way to putting a collective $30,000 in the bank in a year.

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Piggy-Bank Friday: Life Skills Through Financial Literacy

Through the Piggy-Bank Friday program, K-5 students at Walter Bracken STEAM Academy have saved over $30,000 in one year. Walter Bracken STEAM Academy Elementary School GRADES PK-5 | LAS VEGAS, NV

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The Finance Project: 11th Grade Pre-Calculus

Watch this example of a PBL project in action – the “Financial Planning ” project featuring Telannia Norfar of Northwest Classen High School, Oklahoma City, OK (High School Math). This is one in a series of videos produced by the Buck Institute for Education to showcase Gold Standard PBL projects from a variety of grade levels, subject areas and settings.

Source: Buck Institute

Financial Literacy: Mellody Hobson at TEDxMidwest

Mellody Hobson, President of Ariel Investments, delivers an energetic, thought provoking "Talk" that inspires the audience to determine their own financial destiny. Coming from a not so stable home environment, Hobson's ascension in the academic and business worlds offers a clear example of what's possible when one decides to want more for themselves in life.

Source: TEDxYouth

SENIORS LEARN LESSONS FROM FINANCIAL INDUSTRY PROS

Professionals from across the finance industry volunteered their time to conduct financial literacy workshops with students from Cathedral 7-12 High School’s senior class.

Students heard presentations from and talked in small groups with more than 20 volunteers from sectors ranging from banking and insurance to investment and wealth management firms.

Source: Cathedral High School

How to Turn $100 into $1,000,000: Earn! Save! Invest!

by James McKenna (Author), Jeannine Glista (Author)

From the creators of Biz Kid$ and Bill Nye the Science Guy, here is a comprehensive guide for kids to the basics of earning, saving, spending, and investing money.

Written in a humorous but informative voice that engages young readers, it’s the book that every parent who wants to raise financially savvy and unspoiled children should buy for their kids. It is packed with lively illustrations to make difficult concepts easy to understand—all as a way of building financial literacy, good decision-making, and the appreciation of a hard-earned dollar.

Banzai is free, online financial literacy for students of all ages. It's interactive and fun. Over 40,000 math, business, family and consumer science, and computer teachers have joined the program nationwide.

Next Generation Personal Finance

NGPF is a free high-school personal finance curriculum and professional development partner helping teachers deliver essential money understanding in an easy-to-grasp, engaging way. We offer a complete course of up-to-date, customizable lessons and activities designed to spark participation and make ideas memorable. Professional development and events build personal connections, enable knowledge sharing, and highlight information teachers find truly useful.

The Participatory Budgeting Project

The Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) is a nonprofit organization that empowers people to decide together how to spend public money, primarily in the US and Canada.

We create and support participatory budgeting processes that deepen democracy, build stronger communities, and make public budgets more equitable and effective. Since 2009, PBP has supported dozens of governments, schools, and organizations in launching and deepening participatory budgeting processes. This support ranges from technical assistance with specific stages of PB to fully implementing a PB process. For more details, visit our services page.

Fool Proof for Schools

The problem: Many teachers, for lack of an alternative, are forced to use financial literacy curriculums shaped by marketers rather than educators.

One solution: FoolProof for Schools. We provide a curriculum that focuses on teaching young people consumer life skills, not just rote financial skills. Free, for all teachers.

More than money skills: FoolProof focuses on issues that impact young peoples' money or their welfare.

Based on the power of thinking, not just reacting: FoolProof's curriculum is based on the importance of healthy skepticism: questioning advertising; resisting impulse buying; understanding the dangers of the web, and understanding the importance of protecting personal information.

Our resources are free, and advocate only for the student.

BizWorld

Inspiring Children to Become the Architects of Their Futures

Our Vision - Children around the world will be prepared for bright futures that support global economic growth and vibrancy. Engaging them in entrepreneurship education will inspire and set the stage for future leaders.

For 20 years BizWorld.org® has been teaching elementary and middle school children across the U.S. and in 100 countries around the world how to run a business through our entrepreneurship programs. Our mission is to empower children to become 21st century thinkers by awakening their entrepreneurial spirit, inspiring them to become the architects of their futures, and giving them the confidence to transform their world.