bct-l: Financial Apps/Mgt Resources

["Dionne Hodges" <dionnehodges@webster.k12.ms.us>]

I recently attended the Personal Financial Literacy Teacher Conference in Starkville and walked away with good recources. I'm including some of the resources provided at the conference, located on my own and from others who teach some form of financial apps.

 
A.  NEFE HSFPP  - National Endowment for Financial Education- High School Financial Planning Program

  Have used this in the past, but now student guides and instructor's manual are updated and it's all FREE. Order as many student guides as needed. Units include: (1)Financial Planning: Your Roadmap, (2)Career: Labor of Love, (3)Budget: Don't Go Broke, (4)Savings and Investments: Your Money at Work, Credit: (5)Buy Now, Pay Later, and (6)Insurance: Your Protection (auto, health, property, life, disability, liability). To order instructor's manual and student guides:

Elizabeth Schiever, Director
NEFE High School Financial Planning Program
National Endowment for Financial Education
5299 DTC Boulevard, Suite 1300
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
(303) 224-3510 (telephone)
(303) 220-0838 (fax)
eas@nefe.org

The materials will be sent to you (via UPS), at no charge, within three weeks. With your order, please specify:
code number 2108
the number of student guides you need
your name
the name of your school/institution, UPS address, and telephone number

B.  Iowa State University Extension Consumer and Financial Publications. Includes many publications free of charge that deal with everything from income taxes, to allowance games, to life insurance to computer peripherals to computer viruses to Netiquette!

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/pubs/co2.htm

C.  Social Security Teacher's Lounge. This site has files (including teacher manual, worksheets, handouts and quizzes) to assist in introducing SS to students. You can also send them a blank video tape and they will duplicate a 25 minute video free of charge. The video deals with teens learning about ss (the write-up seems interesting an on their level).

http://www.ssa.gov/teacher/teacher.html

D.  Maryland Public Television - Sense and Dollars - Money Games for Teens

http://senseanddollars.thinkport.org/

E.  Shopping for School Clothes Budget Activity - Teacher and Student page with printable worksheet.

http://score.kings.k12.ca.us/lessons/shoppinglist.html

F.  The Insurance Education Foundation - Lesson Plans and Worksheets

http://www.ief.org/materials/lessons.htm

G.  Understanding Taxes: Just a Point and Click Away! - Lesson Plans, Fact Sheets, Simulations, Activities

http://www.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/index.jsp

H. U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing | New Money | Partners Program

THANK YOU NAN WYCKOFF! Great link with FREEBIES as well!    Introducing the NEW MONEY due out this fall.

U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing | New Money | Partners Program Main Page

 http://www.moneyfactory.com/newmoney/main.cfm/partners/about?CFID=238397&CFTOKEN=36660970

 U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing | New Money | Partners Program Order Page

http://www.moneyfactory.com/newmoney/main.cfm/partners/order

Bulletin Board/Display Ideas:

Money In Money Out (list of income and expenses)
Smart Shopper
Shopping Online
Money Around the World
Money Scams
Counterfeit Money
Comparision Shopping
New Money

Quotes:

If you can't pay as you go, you're going to fast!
Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.
Buy land. They're not making it anymore. ~Mark Twain
Creditors have better memories than debtors. ~Benjamin Franklin
Credit cards make buying easy and paying hard.

Misc:

Lendor decides to loan you money based on the three C's.
Character-your reputation as a reliable and trustworthy person.
Capacity-your ability to pay back a loan.
Collateral-sum of all assests you have that can be taken by the creditor if you don't repay your loan.

When discussing Internet shopping, money scams, etc. - Show a  can without a label and have students guess the contents of the can.  You can introduce labeling, advertising, marketing strategies, etc.

Freeze Frame-Break students down into small groups. Introduce a topic with expense account (Family preparing for a vacation trip; Teens planning a birthday party; Friends shopping at the mall). After the students get a bit into the skit, FREEZE FRAME. The next group has to pick up where the last group left off and continue with the skit. Encourages students to pay attention and continue along with the financial spending).

Teach Children to Save Day - April 10, 2003.

Dionne S. Hodges
Business & Computer Technology
Webster County Vocational Center
dionnehodges@webster.k12.ms.us