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The Stock Market Game is a simulation designed to help you learn about investing at a young age so that you can invest safely and wisely for your future.
Benefits: You are able to try investing in real capital markets and develop an investment portfolio without risking real money. You can compete against other teams at the state and national levels.
Limitations: Users must be part of a registered team and session to participate.
Yahoo Finance is a comprehensive site for researching current data on stocks.
Benefits: This site offers free, up-to-the-minute information on all stocks traded in major markets.
Limitations: The information included is intended for professionals, so it can be overwhelming if you are not sure what to look for.
This Compound Interest Calculator helps you determine how much your money can grow over time through the power of compound interest.
Benefits: This calculator is easy to use, offers a visual graph, and allows you to see how different factors could impact your investments over time. The site also includes a saving goal calculator and college savings calculator.
Limitations: This calculator is not well suited to calculating how much would be owed on a loan that accrues compound interest, and it does not explain how the calculation is figured out.
NPR's Planet Money releases frequent podcast episodes discussing current economic issues in an accessible and humorous way.
Benefits: Episodes allow you to learn about a wide array of economic issues and their impact on current events around the world in an interesting and funny way. The ones linked above are short cuts curated for students, but the full library of episodes can be accessed here.
Limitations: The curated episodes linked here are not the most current. Some current episodes may have content that is not appropriate for middle schoolers.
The 'What is Your Why' Video Series, released by the creators of the Stock Market Game, shows diverse stakeholders explaining why financial literacy is important to them.
Benefits: The people interviewed in this series are diverse, and they offer unique perspectives about the real world impacts and importance of financial literacy.
Limitations: All of the interviewees are adults, so they may have different perspectives than kids. There are a limited number of clips available.
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