Resources

American Savings Education Council
Retirement worksheets to help you prepare for your future.

Choose to Save Education Program
A great web site with numerous financial calculators for budgeting, savings, credit cards, retirement, home mortgages and many more.

Consumer Jungle
Online interactive teaching tool aimed exclusively at preparing kids under the age 18 to become responsible consumers. The site provides information about credit card use, car buying, choosing phone and online services, renting apartments and other important life skills in a format that doesn’t put students to sleep.

Federal Reserve
A web site of the Federal Reserve to educate economics and social studies classes about the Fed’s history, how it changes short-term rates and has a quiz to test users knowledge.

Financial Literacy 2010 Website
Official web site of Financial Literacy 2010. Newsletters, chat rooms with other teachers, and updates on the FL2010 program are available. Download FL2010 High School curriculum "Personal Economics For The Classroom" from this site.

Foundation for Financial Literacy
Offers a personal finance fitness online course at no cost, providing you with key information and skills to successfully learn to manage your money, your financial future, and achieve personal financial independence.

Insurance Education Foundation
“Insurance and You – Because Life is a Risky Business” – a teacher and student guide about insurance.

Investment Company Institute Education Foundation
Provides a two-hour interactive, multimedia web course designed to benefit anyone who wants to learn - or review - the basic principles of investing.

Jump$tart
Jump$tart’s web site provides a database of over 250 high quality education materials and multiple additional web sites for students in grades K-12. The web site also contains 12 principles that every young person should know about personal finance and contains a mini-lesson for each month.

Kids' Money
Books, games and activities on teaching money to kids.

Making Allowances
A site where kids learn about money.

Merrill Lynch Global Philanthropy
Features "Investing Pays Off", a curriculum that covers 15 strategies for grades 1-12.

Money Math: Lessons for Life
4 lesson plans designed to teach middle school math students about personal finance. Grades 7-9

National Endowment for Financial Education
Offers at no cost the High School Financial Planning Program.

Practical Money Skills for Life
Online clearinghouse of personal finance education tools and lesson plans for parents, teachers and students.

Social Security Benefit Calculators
Social Security Calculators

Stock Market Game Website
Web site of the Stock Market Game provided to all North Dakota teachers and student teams by the North Dakota Securities Department.

US Bank
An adventure game played on the Internet focusing on financial decision making.

US Treasury
Information on Savings Bonds, games and a download of the curriculum "Money Math: Lessons for Life" for teachers.

Young Biz
The mission of Kidsway, Inc. is to empower youth with entrepreneurial, business and financial skills through innovative education and real-world experience.

Young Investors Network
A web site of Citigroup Smith Barney that includes a component for teaching financial literacy.