Making economics FUN (grades 6-12)

Image from https://www.newyorkfed.org/outreach-and-education/comic-books

The Federal Reserve Bank of NY has shared a series of comics (and related activities) to help students with the finance basics.  There is a recorded webinar on the site as well. You can find a review of the site here on TeachersFirst.

Got a financial question

Wetheecomony has the answers!  In these series of short videos,  each one begins with a question ( What is a recession?  Why is our tax system so complicated?  Where does your band deposit go).   This site is suggested for high school grades but I think you could also use it with middle school students. For a complete review of the site, please see Teachers First here.

Financial Planning for Middle and High School students

From Discovery Education- here’s part of their message:

September is College Savings Month, and it is more important than ever to prepare today’s students with the financial education needed so they can plan for their future success if that includes higher education. This month, help high school students get ahead with no-cost digital resources from Pathway to Financial Success focused on planning to pay for college. Developed in partnership with Discover, this program features a full suite of resources to help students build financial literacy and plan for the future.  

Explore more financial literacy resources high school and middle school students in Experience on the Pathway to Financial Success Channel.

Learning about money

TeachersFirst has a large collection of financial literacy resources for April. Please click here to see their curated collection. They cover basic banking, budgeting and investing.

Money makes the world go round

Here’s a joint program (Discovery Education and Jackson Trust) geared to grades K-6 to talk about financial literacy.  From DE:

Entertaining music videos help children learn money management concepts with storylines around earning, saving, spending and donating, all created by children's education media expert and Emmy-award winner, Dr. Alice Wilder (Blue's Clues, Super Why).

These engaging videos are supported with classroom & family activities and educator guides developed by Discovery Education's award-winning curriculum team, designed to provide methods to teach students how to be money smart kids.

Teaching Financial Literacy?

Then you might want to register with Banzai!  They will connect with free resources to help students learn to manage their money. ( I started the registration process, but since I don’t have a real class, I didn’t complete it). It is geared for grades 8-12.

For the complete post from TeachersFirst, please click here.