Personal Finance

Welcome to Personal Finance!  This nine-week course is designed to make you a more educated earner, consumer, and saver.  Students will complete two projects over the course — tracking stocks and developing a budget.  You will learn about basic economic concepts, savings plans, credit, and cash management.

 

This week’s schedule:

 6/18/18

    to  6/21/18

Assignments

Homework
  Monday
  • Stock graph due
  • Lesson 15: Credit
  Tuesday
  • Lesson 15: Credit
 Wednesday
  • Lesson 15: Credit
  Thursday
  • Financial Football
  Friday  

 

We use the NCEE’s Financial Fitness for Life curriculum.  If you are interested in purchasing the supplemental parent edition, Talking to Your Kids About Personal Finance, it is available on the NCEE website at www.ncee.net

Fun Personal Finance Websites and Online Games:

The coolest personal finance game ever at genirevolution.org; copy and paste  http://www.genirevolution.org/join.php   into your URL to get started.

Banking for Kids http://www.bankingkids.com/pages/teen.html

Bite Club, Groove Nation, and other games to learn about personal finance at http://financialentertainment.org/

Debt Ski – play to learn about credit http://www.indebted.com/the-game/debtski/

Get a reality check on the cost of living at http://jumpstart.org/reality-check.html

It All Adds Up http://www.italladdsup.org/   Select an picture from the bottom to play and learn!

Mapping Your Future is not a game site, but a great source of helpful information about college and personal finance.  http://www.mappingyourfuture.org/

Money management advice just for teens http://www.kidsmoney.org/teens.htm

Money Talk for Teens http://moneytalks4teens.ucdavis.edu/    is loaded with practical information.

Practical Money Skills games to learn about money skills including Financial Football and Soccer  http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/games/

Sense and Dollars http://senseanddollars.thinkport.org/    is loaded with advice in a fun, down-to-earth format.

Stocks – learn about them at http://www.prongo.com/stock/index.pl

U.S. Mint website with games and info http://www.usmint.gov/kids/

Wall Street Journal Student Edition –  Personal Finance Page http://online.wsj.com/public/page/2_1581.html