The Virginia Council on Economic Education 2015-2016 Featured Books: Tia Isa Wants a Car by Meg Medina, Helen’s Big World: Life of Helen Keller by Doreen Rappaport, and Uncle Jed’s Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell with discussion questions and lesson plans. These books are used to teach about savings,savings goals, opportunity cost, productive resources, and human capital.

In the story, Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday, Alexander receives a dollar from his grandparents that he plans to save, but he spends it all, a little at a time. In this lesson, students count by 2s to fill a container with 100 pennies. They are asked whether 100 pennies is the same amount of money as one dollar. They listen to the story, and as Alexander spends his money, students come up and remove the correct number of pennies from a container. At the end of the story, students are again asked if 100 pennies is the same amount of money as one dollar. Students discuss the choices that Alexander made and give advice on how he could save his money to reach his goal of buying a walkie-talkie.

Imagine if vocabulary could come alive with the click of a button! Students create video posters to demonstrate knowledge of new economics vocabulary.

In this lesson, students learn about credit card usage and credit card consumer protection laws. By the end of the lesson students will be able to analyze the terms of credit cards and recognize what it means to use credit cards responsibly. They will understand the cost of credit and be able to analyze credit card disclosures and credit card statements. This content from Econ Lowdown also features alignment to national Financial Literacy and/or Economics standards.

In this lesson, students learn about credit card usage and credit card consumer protection laws. By the end of the lesson students will be able to analyze the terms of credit cards and recognize what it means to use credit cards responsibly. They will understand the cost of credit and be able to analyze credit card disclosures and credit card statements. This content from Econ Lowdown also features alignment to national Financial Literacy and/or Economics standards.

Credit can be a powerful tool in your financial toolbox if you understand how to use it wisely. In this module, you’ll learn about different types of credit and the costs associated with using credit. You’ll learn the importance of building strong credit by borrowing wisely and paying promptly, arranging credit for making major purchases like a car or home, avoiding common credit mistakes, and monitoring your own credit. You’ll also learn about credit reports, your credit score, and steps you can— and should— take to build your own credit cred! This content from Econ Lowdown also features alignment to national Financial Literacy and/or Economics standards.

A collection of financial literacy lesson plans from EconEdLink for grades K-12. The search results can be further refined by National Standards in Economics, National Standards in Financial Literacy, Common Core ELA, and Common Core Math standards, instructional strategy (e.g. direct instruction, interactive lesson), and personal finance concept.

What can be done to get people back to work? Students get the answer to this and other questions — including why education might be the best way to avoid unemployment in the future — in this short online module. This content from Econ Lowdown also features alignment to national Financial Literacy and/or Economics standards.

Young children are not likely to think past their piggy banks when it comes to safe places to set money aside for those special items. In this short module, your students will learn that a bank account offers security and a return on their savings. This content from Econ Lowdown also features alignment to national Financial Literacy and/or Economics standards.

A collection of financial literacy activities and mini-lessons from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The search results can be further refined by national standard (Council for Economic Education or Jump$tart Coalition), student setup (e.g. full group, pairs, small group), duration, and teaching strategy used.

This financial literacy content package is a collection of educator-curated instructional materials to support the planning and money management strand of the Ohio Financial Literacy Learning Standards for the middle grades 7-8. Click View Resource to explore the package or Remix to make a copy for your own use. 

This is a full 18-week curriculum organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The resources, lessons and activities in this guide are aligned with Ohio’s high school Model Financial Literacy Curriculum. The guide covers 18 weeks (1 semester) and is divided into 3-week long units for each of the six topics. Each topic’s content statements have been sequenced so that new subject matter builds on concepts already covered. Learning expectations are found under each day's lesson selection.

This guide contains resources drawn primarily from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s Econ Lowdown® economic education website, with additional material from the Cleveland Fed and other Federal Reserve System websites, and from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Multiple resources are provided for teaching each content statement to allow for more choice when tailoring lesson plans.

According to Ohio's Learning Standards for Financial Literacy, "Financial Literacy is defined as the ability to read, analyze, manage and communicate about personal financial conditions that affect one's 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 completely to life events that affect every day financial decisions, including events in the general economy."This content pack is intended to be a way to discover new resources and lessons for financial literacy that can be used in grades 9-12. The standards being referenced are ODEW Site: Ohio's Financial Literacy Standards for Financial Literacy, page 9 (high school). Though it is not mentioned here, it may hit additional standards within Social Studies, Mathematics, or other topics within Financial Literacy. Specific content standards that were used to find relevant resources are:

This content package offers resources for grades K-6 in Financial Literacy and related math skills. There are a variety of resource types in the package: individual lesson plans, mini-units, lesson collections, videos, interactive resources, and eReading materials.

This choice board, created from Google Slides, includes 15 different eBooks and videos about saving and investing money for high school students. These eBooks and videos will help build background knowledge on Financial Literacy standards. Share this choice board directly with students and allow them to choose the eBooks and videos they would like to watch and read to learn more about the topic.

This link points to search results on the Jump$tart Clearinghouse that lists all free comprehensive curricula or lessons about financial literacy for grades K-12. The Jump$tart Clearinghouse is the premier online resource for educators, parents, students and others to find effective, financial education resources from various sources. When searching for resources, you may want to refer to our Best Practices for guidance.

We're hosting an online Financial Literacy course for middle school and high school students. Courses are broken down into 4-5 week Modules and students can participate in any of them. Choose your Module to earn a certificate in or take all four Modules!

Students complete a short survey to find out about their current money skills and explore things they can do to manage money better.

Engaging, fun tutorials and interactive games related to earning, spending, saving, and budgeting money.

The purpose of this task is for students to solve problems involving decimals in a context involving a concept that supports financial literacy, namely inflation.