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Center for Personal Financial
Education > High School Teachers
Online Resources
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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