Teaching Tools....
Consumer Credit Counseling Service (CCCS)
CCCS is a non-profit, community service organization dedicated to helping households resolve financial problems by promoting the wise use of credit. This site is loaded with helpful information on budgeting, tips for reducing spending, and tools for determining what credit really costs, savings growth projections, and mortgage costs. Lesson sets for use in the classroom are available for purchase.
EconEdLink's website offers:
NetNewsLine - is an online resource with student lesson and teacher guides to help students and teachers understand the economic forces behind current issues.
CyberTeach - is an interactive guide that provides information to instructors on how to use the Internet to teach economics. CyberTeach also links to web sites that have been selected for their ability to inform and enliven any level of economics curriculum.
EconomicsMinute – has timely, current event topics and offers links to news media, classroom discussion questions, and activities that help students understand the economics behind the news.
ECONnections
This site is designed for teachers to use in classroom of grades 3-12 or to assign as independent or group study. These lesson plans are adapted and expanded from published NCEE materials and include concepts such as: interest rates, trade labor and spending.
Education World
This site includes lessons about budgets, credit cards, producers and consumers, opportunity costs, and business plans.
Federal Reserve Education
Here you can find links to free instructional materials and tools that can increase your understanding of the Federal Reserve, economics and financial education.
Financial Football
Students tackle financial questions like professionals in this fast-paced, quiz-style game. Classrooms are divided into two teams that compete by answering finance-themed questions to earn yardage and score touchdowns.
It All Adds Up
It All Adds Up is a web-based, interactive program designed to help high school teachers and students understand responsible personal finance management skills and the proper care and use of credit. This site provides interactive learning, promotes standards-based education, and provides real-world applications relevant to high school students. The 5 modules address credit cards, budgeting, saving and investing, as well as specialized lessons about buying a car and going to college.
Marketplace
Visitors can listen any time (via this site) to recent broadcasts of this popular radio show on personal finance. The resources section includes listings of web sites, books, etc. related to weekly broadcasts. There's also a forum for sharing tips on saving money.
Moneyopolis
In this fun and educational game, students practice their math skills in a personal financial planning context. Sign up for free.
National Council on Economic Education (NCEE)
The NCEE is a nationwide network to promote economic literacy in students and their teachers. Programs include EconomicsAmerica, which creates standard-setting materials and resources for teachers and students; EconomicsInternational, which is primarily supported by the US Department of Education and provides educational assistance to teachers in societies that are in transition to market economy; and EconomicsExchange, which is designed to reach out to adults and give them applicable economic and personal finance skills. Online resources include free and for sale lesson plans for K-12 teachers and their students and recent news stories for education on current issues in economic literacy. It also provides information on affiliated networks and centers in states throughout the country.
Planet Orange
The Planet Orange Teachers Resource Center (TRC) provides fun ways to explain the basics of earning, spending, saving and investing to your students. The TRC offers free educational materials, such as lesson plans and quizzes, and many other great resources.
Practical Money Skills for Life
This web site offers free lesson plans, classroom tools, and student activities relating to personal finance. Also allows you to match the information provided on the site to your state standards.
The Mint
This site is designed to help teach 6-12 graders to manage money. Lessons can be found on budgeting, credit, scarcity, choice and the stock market. It also includes information and fun activities for students.
UM-St. Louis Center for Entrepreneurship
and Economic Education
Your secondary students will benefit from these free lessons, complete with interesting classroom activities, visual aides and discussion questions, focusing on economics concepts.
US Securities and Exchange Commission
You're devoting your time and talents to teaching others. Here's some information to help you learn how to save and invest wisely. Also included on this site are some useful resources for teaching others about saving and investing.
Wise Pockets
Wisepockets.com is an interactive site for kids, parents, and teachers to learn about managing money. Teachers will find printable lesson plans and activities around financial education for grades 3-6.
Statistic Sites
Census Bureau
Current Economic Indicators
FedStats
Internal Revenue Service
Justice Department/Antitrust Division
