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 | | The Stock Market Game gives students
the chance to invest a hypothetical
$100,000 in a real-time portfolio.
They think they're playing a game.
You know they're learning economic
and financial concepts they'll use
for the rest of their lives. |
| | The Illinois Council on Economic Education (ICEE), an affiliate of the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE), is the premier provider in Illinois of economic education programs for K-12 schools. ICEE helps schools integrate the teaching of economics across all grade levels, preparing students to meet Illinois Learning Standards, and providing them with the fundamental economic concepts and skills needed to understand and succeed in our market economy. |
| | The National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) is a nationwide network that leads in promoting economic literacy with students and their teachers. NCEE's mission is to help students develop the real-life skills they need to succeed: to be able to think and choose responsibly as consumers, savers, investors, citizens, members of the workforce, and effective participants in a global economy. |
| | First convened in December, 1995, the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy determined that the average student who graduates from high school lacks basic skills in the management of personal financial affairs. Many are unable to balance a checkbook and most simply have no insight into the basic survival principles involved with earning, spending, saving and investing.
Many young people fail in the management of their first consumer credit experience, establish bad financial management habits, and stumble through their lives learning by trial and error. The Coalition´s direct objective is to encourage curriculum enrichment to ensure that basic personal financial management skills are attained during the K-12 educational experience. The wheels of education do not need to be reinvented, they simply require balance.
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| | Managing your money effectively as a student can be a real challenge. But you don't have to do it alone. Nellie Mae offers several resources to help students make wise decisions about borrowing, budgeting, using credit, repaying loans, and handling other financial issues. Visit the links below for more information… |
| | Managing money is not an innate skill, as the high rate of debt in the U.S. shows. Lessons on managing money should be part of a formal education, many believe. Programs like Hands on Banking give students practical lessons in handling their finances. Included: Descriptions of how to use a financial literacy program in the classroom.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/chat/chat211.shtml |
| | This site teaches middle grades students all about U.S. Savings Bonds. It includes a downloadable curriculum booklet that teaches math using real-life examples from personal finance. |
| | This guide will help teens "learn how to make good decisions about money, right from the start." The guide is written especially for teens and includes the following topics: Saving Money, Where to Keep Your Money, Spending Money, Borrowing Money, Protecting Against Fraud, Banking Basics, Extra Points, and How to Learn More. Included is an online quiz for testing your money management IQ. Additionally, permission is granted to reprint the article in full or part to distribute to teens and families. Teachers could reprint it for an entire class for required reading to supplement their economics curriculum. |
| | From TeAchnology, this online simulation engages students in the real-life task of running a business—a Lemonade Stand. The goal is to make as much money as they can within 30 days. They will have complete control over almost every part of their business, including pricing, quality control, inventory control and purchasing supplies. As students sell their product, people will decide whether they like it and how much they like or dislike it. If students sell a good product for a good price, they will build business over time; if they overcharge for inferior products, they will be out of business sooner than they’d think.
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| | These instructional resources for Economics from the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) are a real find for teachers. The lesson plans and other activities are organized under thematic topics such as budgets, debts, Economic decision-making, investment, savings, unemployment, and supply and demand. The lessons are all standards-based and use research-proven instructional strategies. The Related Resources section is also worth a look as it brings together some of the best Economics resources from various areas of government agencies and several universities. These include interactive resources for kids, the role of government, U.S. monetary policy, and general economics resources.
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| | Visualizing Economics offers anyone interested in the field of economics some interesting and understandable information. Users will find posters for download such as “How much do you earn?” illustrating the distribution of income in the U.S. and “How rich is the U.S.?” that graphs the top five countries in each region of the world. Also available is an historical graph showing the adoption of new technologies in the United States, a graph of the highest paid American athletes, and a United States poverty map. Visitors can browse through the most popular posts, search for particular posts using keywords or locate posts by a number of categories and post their own comments about them as well as sign up to receive updates about new maps via email. |
| | ME:TAL (Mathematics for Economics: Enhancing Teaching and Learning)
Math gets real: math for economics.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0308-17.shtml
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Social Studies teachers will appreciate the easy access to the standards-based materials and video clips that C-SPAN’s Classroom offers. There are six major topics: Principles of Government, U.S. Constitution, Legislative Branch, Executive Branch, Judicial Branch, and Political Participation. Users will want to register (free) for full access to all of the materials and to be able to search the video clip library by keyword, speaker, or teaching concept. Included with the video clips is a short description, discussion questions that are linked to national standards, primary source material, keywords, rating and comments from other teachers. Additionally, users will find links to other topic resources.
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| | According to the National Endowment for Financial Education, "Personal financial literacy is the ability to read, analyze, manage, and communicate about the personal financial conditions that affect material well being. It includes the ability to discern financial choices, discuss money and financial issues without (or despite) discomfort, plan for the future, and respond competently to life events that affect everyday financial decisions, including events in the general economy."
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