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NEFE Teen Resource Bureau

http://www.ntrbonline.org/

Choose Your Own Financial Adventure! Teens can practice making smart financial decisions by going on a financial adventure without ever leaving home or opening their wallet.

 

NYS Banking Department Resources

http://www.banking.state.ny.us/fec/

Comprehensive listing of financial education resources

 

Are you Financially Fit?

Find out and test your common "cents" when it comes to money! Family, Career and Community Leaders of America and the National Endowment for Financial Education have come together to help students learn more about banking basics, cash control, making money, consumer clout, and financing your future. Take a minute to find out exactly how much you know about using money wisely today to prepare for tomorrow by taking FCCLA's Financial Fitness Literacy Quiz. Then use the 60 Ways to Serve Your Community Using Financial Fitness booklet to develop a financial literacy project. When your project is complete, log back on and take the post quiz to see how much you have learned. Results for both the pre and post quiz are submitted directly to FCCLA. Go to: http://www.fcclainc.org/quiz/index.html to take the Financial Fitness Online Quiz and take your first steps to become Financially FIT!

To order your free copy of 60 Ways to Serve Your

Community Using Financial Fitness, go to:

http://www.fcclainc.org/fccla.tmpl?pagename=store/store.tpl

 

Money Management For Young Adults

The Spring 2005 issue of FDIC Consumer News (http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/news/cnspr05/) helps young adults (including those just beginning a career or family and others still in school) learn how to save and manage money. Information includes common mistakes young adults make with money and how to avoid them. Other topics include ways to protect against identity theft and other fraud, five things to know about credit cards and checking accounts, electronic banking services that young people might find attractive, and the right way to fix a problem with a financial institution.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Consumer News

Receive the latest issue of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Consumer News every quarter for timely, reliable and innovative tips and information that will help you and your students protect and stretch your money. To subscribe to this free online delivery service, follow the instructions posted on the FDIC website at: www.fdic.gov/about/subscriptions/

 

BizWorld (www.bizworld.org) is a game and a curriculum that teaches money, finance, business and entrepreneurship skills to elementary school age children. Children learn about venture capitalism by becoming venture capitalists - designing, creating, marketing, and selling their own friendship bracelets. The curriculum is flexible and takes about 10 hours to teach. The website explains the program further and allows educators to receive a free kit ($79 value) for the cost of shipping and handling ($9).

 

 

 
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