Owning A Car - A Personal Finance Lesson

Many students think all they have to do is raise enough money to buy a used car and they are all set.  Not thinking about insurance,  repair expenses, etc.  Here is a website that has a 45 minute personal finance lesson plan for you to use.  To see the webpage click here.

Pear Budget

If you are teaching a personal finance course or math course that deals with budgeting you might want to look at this website by clicking here.  This is a step by step guide to help you develop your budget.  It does not give you the information needed to put realistic dollar values on each category, but that is what the students will need to research.

Economics / Personal Finance Lesson Plans

Here is another set of Economics/Personal Finance lesson plans you might want to look at.by clicking here.

Economic Lesson Plans

If you would like some Economic Lesson plans (some might be good for Personal Finance too) try clicking here.

Wages and Me

If you are teaching a course in Careers, Personal Finance or Mathematics this lesson might be for you.  The Wages and Me lesson click here.  One of the links in this lesson points to the US Department of Labor Occupational  Employment Statistics.  You can see that page by clicking here.

Compound Interest Calculator

If you are teaching compound interest in your Economics, Personal Finance or Math class, this compound interest calculator allows you to adjust the starting age, the interest rate and monthly savings amount.  It then slowly draws a graph of your savings and shows how much is principal and how much is interest.  To see the calculator click here.

Dollar$ and Sense

These pdf lesson plans on personal finance can be used in a business or math class.  They are about 30 minutes long and are produced by H & R Block.To see the lesson plan on budgeting click here.  To see the lesson on credit cards click here. To see the lesson on student loans click here.

Online Personal Finance Game

Last week I posted about a site "What's up in finance".  To see that click here.  Today I am posting about an interactive game site that has two games to help students with personal finance.  To see the website click here.

Banzai - Financial Literacy

If you are teaching Financial Literacy you might be interested in this free website that stresses real life financial situations.  To see the website click here.    Askatechteacher reviewed the website in August 2015 and this is what they said:

Jump Start - Personal Finance

If you teach personal finance in your business, guidance or mathematics course there is a short reality check where you pop in some things that your students expect to have when they move out into the real world.  It then calculates what they will need to make and the type of jobs that pay around that.  If you are a student you may just want to try this yourself.

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