Resources for Teaching Financial Literacy
Check our classroom resources for educators to add a little spark to the classroom. Use our educational technology resources to enhance your lessons and engage your students. These ideas will help to plan for fun classroom activities along with education.
Free Forms
We encourage everyone who is conducting the ABCs of Wealth financial literacy programs to conduct pre and post-class questionnaires. Various predefined or customizable forms with different goals and objectives can be found on the internet free of charge. Following are what we have designed based on the goals and objectives of the ABCs of Wealth Curriculum.
Free Budgeting Tools
Budgeting is an essential aspect of financial literacy. It is also a habit that is developed over time. There are many tools such as spreadsheets, software, and apps to help you with budgeting and tracking your income and expenses. If you have never created a budget before you can start by tracking your income and expenses first for a short period.
Videos
Videos are a terrific way to help students learn more about a topic or concept in a simple and visual way. Following a few sample videos that we often use as a supplement to the lesson or activity, or as a review for students.
How do you beg for the things you want?
Play Pump
Marquis’ Story
Importance of education
Chicken Al Cart
School Desks
Videos on Plastic
Unfortunately we have become a plastic generation. It seems like life without plastic is impossible however a closer look reveals that plastic is just a matter of convenience. It’s up to each one of us to change our life styles and become independent of plastic.
Free Power Point Presentations
PowerPoints are a great visual resource to use with the students. Here are the couple of presentations which helps students learn about the connection between global issues and financial literacy.