Financial Literacy
NEFE’s financial workshop kits provide money management tips for taking control of their finances.
National Financial Educators Council (NFEC) is an independent organization that provides practical financial education to people of all ages. The personal financial curriculum includes instructors’ guides, testing, games, and other educational resources. The literacy programs are intended to prepare students to manage their own personal finances, prevent high school dropouts, and improve graduation rates.
The National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) provides a financial literacy program that focuses on personal finance skills that are relevant to young adults. The program is organized with six topics that include planning, borrowing, earning capability, investing, financial services, and insurance. The High School Financial Planning Program provides a variety of forty-five minute lesson plans and a collection of online resources.
Practical Money Skills For Life is a program developed by Visa and leading consumer advocates, educators, and financial institutions to help students learn the essentials of personal finance. The website provides a wealth of information to educators interested in improving financial literacy including lesson plans and educational games for the classroom. This website not only includes lessons for children from pre-kindergarten to college level but also includes material for teaching money sense to students with learning disabilities.
The WingaDoos are a band of musical pigeons that teach kids K-3 the basics of financial literacy and responsible financial decision making through interactive stories. WingaDoos is available for both in the classroom and at home.
Banzai is an interactive, award-winning course that has taught millions of students real-world finance.
FoolProof provides teachers a completely remote, turnkey and free consumer life skills curriculum.
Gen i Revolution is an online game for middle and high school aged students to gain personal financial skills and compete against students their age.
Money As You Learn is a resource for educators to incorporate financial literacy into their common core lessons.
Payback is an online game that nudges students to think about how to succeed in college without taking on excessive student debt.
Spent is an online game and challenges players to survive the struggle of low-income living.
Sesame Street in Communities is an online community for sharing Sesame Street’s free educational resources with the adults in children’s lives.