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FDIC: Money Smart for Young People

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This standards-aligned curriculum series empowers educators with engaging activities to integrate financial education instruction into subjects such as math, English, and social studies. Here is a brief overview of what you will find: Educator’s Guide with lessons and hands-on activities to promote student participation in the learning process. Grade-level modifications are identified throughout the activities. Teacher Presentation Slides, optional overhead visuals that include fill-in charts to support the activities of each lesson. Student Guide features worksheets for students based on topics covered in each lesson that can be used at school or at home. The worksheets can be found in the Educator Guide for grades Pre-K-2, and in a standalone Student Guide for grades 3-12. Parents’/Caregivers’ Guide with a summary of the key concepts covered in the module, and that offers exercises, activities, and conversation-starters for parents.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment

Author: FDIC

Uncle Jed's Barbershop

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Students listen to the book Uncle Jed's Barbershop, about an African-American barber who, despite significant setbacks, saves enough money to buy his own barbershop. From the story, students learn about saving, savings goals, opportunity cost, and segregation. The students participate in a card game to further investigate what it takes to reach a savings goal.

Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan, Reading

Author: Andrew T. Hill

Financial Education K-12 Learning Standards

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Washington’s Basic Education Act requires that school districts provide opportunities for every student to “understand the importance of work and finance and how performance, effort, and decisions directly affect future career and educational opportunities.” Financial education attends to the development of short-term and long-term skills and competencies for academic and personal growth. Financial education supports students’ academic performance in several subject areas and plays a major role in preparing students for college, career, and a life of financial stability and well-being

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Real World Class Documentary: Student Voices for Financial Education

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This video from Next Gen Personal Finance follows the stories of five remarkable students from Maryland, New Mexico, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Washington. The short (19 min.) documentary film demonstrates how student activism is behind the movement to increase access to financial education.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Case Study, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Next Gen Personal Finance

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