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• What Is Financial Literacy?: Learn what it takes to become financially literate, why this set of knowledge and skills is so critical, and what this means for schools. (麻豆传媒入口, 2015)
• The Value of Financial Literacy: Take a look at this infographic for more information about what the research tell us about teaching finance to students. (麻豆传媒入口, 2012)
• Entrepreneurship Education Stresses Learning by Doing: Discover how entrepreneurship education can engage students鈥� critical thinking skills and deepen their financial literacy. You may also want to check out some of 麻豆传媒入口鈥檚 resources and downloads related to entrepreneurship education. (麻豆传媒入口, 2011)
• : Explore takeaways of a biennial survey conducted by the Council for Economic Education that looks at the state of K鈥�12 economic and financial education in the United States; an dissects the costs of financial illiteracy and benefits and challenges of implementing financial and economic education. (Council for Economic Education)
• : Listen to a podcast from Vicki Davis鈥檚 Every Classroom Matters to learn why financial literacy is so important, and hear teacher Beth Werker describe a program called Enterprise City. (BAM Radio Network, 2014)

Discover Lessons, Simulations, Videos, and Apps

• : Find resources for students of all ages in this compilation of games, lessons, hooks, apps, and more. (SmartBlog on Education, 2013)
• : Discover video collections, online games, and structured curricula to help advance your teaching and learning goals. (KQED鈥檚 MindShift, 2013)
• : Review 20 age-appropriate financial literacy lessons and activities for students in grades K-12. The companion website includes tools for educators to integrate personal finance into teaching aligned with the Common Core State Standards.
• : Browse or search a database with hundreds of free personal-finance lessons for grades K-12. (EconEdLink)
• : View or download standards related to personal finance education across all grades K鈥�12. (Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Finance Literacy)
• and : Follow these hashtags on Twitter to keep up to date on the latest trends and resources for financial-literacy education.

Explore Activities for Grades K鈥�8

• Creativity, Candy, and Commerce: Discover how middle school students brought curiosity and passion to learning through the design, manufacture, and marketing of their own signature chocolate bars. (麻豆传媒入口, 2015)
• Make the Money 鈥淩eal鈥�: Read about a counting-change simulation that gives students experience handling money in the lead-up to handling real transactions. (麻豆传媒入口, 2015)
• Teaching Toward an Affordable Future: Learn about a program that helps elementary school students learn about personal finance while saving money every week. (麻豆传媒入口, 2015)
• Elementary Financial Literacy: Lesson Ideas and Resources: Discover how financial literacy can be integrated into elementary English and mathematics, and find a few resources to get started. 鈥�Financial Literacy for Elementary Students鈥� is another great list of resources. (麻豆传媒入口, 2014)
• Teaching Financial Literacy to Middle Schoolers: Explore strategies for integrating financial literacy into middle school curricula and age-appropriate resource suggestions. 鈥�Financial Literacy for Middle School Students鈥� is another good source of guidance, information, and resources. (麻豆传媒入口, 2014)

Explore Activities for Grades 9鈥�12

• Addressing Student, Family, and Community Needs: Find out how one school uses a personal finance class to impart lessons about fiscal responsibility and financial literacy to teens and connect this knowledge to their lives. (麻豆传媒入口, 2015)
• When Financial Education Hits Close to Home: Read about the Home Ownership project, a real-world project that helped students at Maplewood High School in Nashville, Tennessee, learn about homeownership and the power of personal finance. (麻豆传媒入口, 2015)
• 5-Minute Film Festival: We the Economy: Watch and share 20 short films that explain concepts like debt, money, and supply and demand. (麻豆传媒入口, 2015)
• Financial Literacy in High School: Necessary and Relevant: Learn how to make financial literacy relevant to students鈥� lives, and find resources for teaching financial literacy skills to high school students. For more guidance, information, and resources, also see 鈥�Financial Literacy for High School Students.鈥� (麻豆传媒入口, 2014)
• : Discover a few technology-based ways to engage high schoolers in discussions about personal finance. (U.S. News and World Report, 2014)
• A Mobile App Lesson on Financial Capability: Check out a lesson on financial capability that makes use of mobile apps, courtesy of Brian Page, a high school personal finance and AP economics teacher. (麻豆传媒入口, 2013)
• Games to Teach Financial Literacy: Explore some friendly, engaging options to promote financial literacy among secondary students. (麻豆传媒入口, 2013)

Downloads and Examples From Schools That Work

麻豆传媒入口's flagship series highlights practices and case studies from K鈥�12 schools and districts that are improving the way students learn. Below, find downloads used by practitioners at featured schools, and dive into real-world examples of teaching and learning financial literacy.

Piggy-Bank Friday: Life Skills Through Financial Literacy: Through the Piggy-Bank Friday program, K鈥�5 students at Walter Bracken STEAM Academy in Las Vegas, Nevada, have saved over $30,000 in one year. Watch the video, read about their practice, and take a look at this featured download:

• :聽Print out these example deposit slips for your school's Piggy-Bank聽program.

Financial Literacy Makes School Relevant:聽The Ariel Community Academy, a public K鈥�8 school on the South Side of Chicago, has been achieving remarkable success thanks to a number of effective strategies, particularly a financial-literacy program. Watch a video, and learn about the components of their K鈥�8 curriculum to see how they do it. Then explore some of this school鈥檚 resources and downloads; a few highlights from their , organized according to , are linked below.

• :聽Review a lesson suggested for fourth grade that asks students to define and give examples of goods as objects that satisfy people's wants and services.
• :聽Review a lesson suggested for fifth grade that asks students to explain that economic wants are desires that can be satisfied by consuming a good or service or leisure activity and why not all wants can be satisfied.
• :聽Review a lesson suggested for sixth grade that asks students to diagram the relationship among a final good or service, the way it鈥檚 produced, and who consumes and produces it.
• :聽Review a lesson suggested for seventh grade that asks students to compare different ways resources are used to buy and consume goods and services.
• :聽Review a lesson suggested for eighth grade that asks students to explain scarcity and how not all wants for goods and services can be satisfied.