Financial Literacy

Grade 11-12 | 9 Learning Activities

Course Description

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Duration:

Learning Act 1: 30 mins
Learning Act 2: 30 mins
Learning Act 3: 30 mins
Learning Act 4: 30 mins
Learning Act 5: 30 mins
Learning Act 6: 30 mins
Learning Act 7: 30 mins
Learning Act 8: 30 mins
Learning Act 9: 30 mins

Learning Objectives

Learning Activity 1: Financial Football | Visa/NFL Financial Football is a fast-paced, interactive game that teaches money management skills.
Learning Activity 2: Money Magic | Powered by NGPF Learn the tricks of budgeting in this cool interactive game.
Learning Activity 3: Hit the Road | CreditUnion.gov It's road trip time! Sounds like fun, but you'll need to make sure you manage your budget. Learn how to plan a budget in this interactive road trip game.
Learning Activity 4: Payback Game | NGPF This game teaches the importance of planning for the costs of college.
Learning Activity 5: Shady Sam | NGPF Play the Shady Sam game to demonstrate how loan terms can hurt you if you don’t pay attention.
Learning Activity 6: Stax | NGPF
Learning Activity 7: The Uber Game | Financial Times This game puts you into the shoes of a full-time Uber driver with bills to pay. Can you earn enough to pay the bill and make more than other players? Find out!
Learning Activity 8: Spent | McKinney Can you make it through the month living paycheck to paycheck? This game will test your budgeting skills as you learn the concept of trade-offs.
Learning Activity 9: The Fiscal Ship | Hutchins Center at Brookings and the Serious Games Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson Center The Fiscal Ship game challenges you to put the federal budget on a sustainable course. Your mission is to pick from a menu of tax and spending options to reduce the debt from projected levels over the next 25 years. To win the game, you need to find a combination of policies that match your values and priorities and set the budget on a sustainable course.

Skill Focus

Enhances Critical Thinking Skills

Resource Links

Course: https://students.yourlearning.ibm.com/recommended/aoi/PROFESSIONAL_SKILLS/FINANCIAL_LITERACY

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