2. Financial Education Public Private Partnership
3. EconEdLink Resource Collection
4. EconLowdown Resource Gallery
5. CFPB Financial Literacy Activities
6. NGPF Arcade Games
7. NGPF Units
8. Biz Kids Teacher Resource Page
9. Take Charge Today - Search Lesson Plans
DigitalGames&ActivitiesforStudents6-12
SpanishResourcesK-12
FEPPP Suggested Resource Collections
Overview
Financial education resource collections suggested by Financial Education Public Private Partnership during their training sessions.
Introduction
The Washington Financial Education Public-Private Partnership (FEPPP) was created by the legislature to bring public and private stakeholders together to improve and advocate for financial education in Washington schools and communities by providing teacher trainings and quality resources.
Resource collections in the sections below are ones frequently shared during FEPPP training sessions throughout the state.
- Washington Educators, check out upcoming FEPPP Training and Events
- Learn more about FEPPP
- View the Washington State Financial Education Standards
EconEdLink
Description
EconEdLink is brought to you by the Council for Economic Education, the leading organization in the United States that focuses on the economic and financial education of K-12 students.
Search their collection of over 1200 resources by grade or topic area.
Though a free registration is required to save resources into an online personal dashboard, registration is not required to view or download materials.
Professional Development
Register for upcoming webinars and view archived sessions on demand
EconEdLink Professional Development
Permitted Use
Users may use and make a limited number of copies of the Website images, text, programs, and other materials for non-commercial, classroom and instructional use. EconEdLink Permission Policy
Econ Lowdown - Online Learning Resources
Description
Econ Lowdown is brought to you by the St. Louis Federal Reserve's Education Program. On this portal, you’ll find hundreds of ready-made online economic and personal finance lessons for use at no cost. Formats include video, audio and reading Q&As with post-tests; online modules with pre- and post-tests; and FRED® interactives. You can sort by grade (K-2, 3-5, middle school, high school, and college) as well as subject, topic, language and duration.
Online learning modules and Reading Q&A are available without registration.
In order to access other types of online resources, create online classrooms or monitor student progress, free teacher registration is required.
Visit their FAQ page for more information regarding creating classrooms, student accounts, and FERPA compliance.
Professional Development
The Federal Reserve Banks of St. Louis and Atlanta now offer graduate credit for our online professional development. Teachers in certain states can earn one hour of CPDU credit by working with their students to complete an online course in one of more than a dozen topics spanning concepts in economics and personal finance. There is no fee.
Econlowdown Professional Development options
Permitted Use
Permission is granted to reproduce and distribute downloadable individual resources in their entirety for non-commercial, personal or educational purposes.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Description
These classroom activities from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can be completed within a single class period. Each activity comes with a teacher guide and supporting student material, so it’s easy to implement whether you’re an experienced personal finance teacher, integrating financial literacy into another subject area, or supplementing your existing financial education curriculum.
Professional Development
CFPB has created informational materials to support educators in putting this research into practice.
Grade Level Guides
Use these brief guides to incorporate developmentally appropriate strategies into your classroom to help students learn and practice skills to develop financial capability.
Effective Teaching Strategies
Although many strategies can be effective for teaching youth financial education, the Bureau has identified and defined some that are well suited for teaching particular building blocks.
Permitted Use
Information created by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is in the public domain and you may reproduce, publish, or otherwise use it without the Bureau’s permission. Please consider appropriate citation to the Bureau as the source.
Next Gen Personal Finance
Description
Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF) provides FREE, openly licensed, up-to-date curriculum, engaging professional development and advocacy resources to increase access to financial education.
- Arcade Games
These free online games provide the hooks to get students engaged in decision-making around paying for college, budgeting, investing, and more. - Units
Browse the Unit library below to find lessons, interactives, assessments and other resources for engaging students with quality personal finance curriculum. - Video Library
- Questions of the Day
Registration is not required to view or download materials. In order to access exclusive resources for teachers in the Teacher Toolkit, free registration is required.
Professional Development
Register for upcoming webinars and view archived sessions on demand
Next Gen Personal Finance Professional Development
Permitted Use
Except as expressly otherwise noted, all CFCI Content (including CFCI Curriculum Material) is made available to Users in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution – Non-Commerical 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC) License
Biz Kids
Description
Biz Kid$ lesson plans are aligned with all national and state Educational standards. Biz Kid$ is used in classrooms across America and the world.
Biz Kid$ is a national financial education initiative based on an Emmy Award-winning public television series about kids, money, and business. The series includes Six Seasons with 71 episodes -six released in June 2017 on PBS with over one million viewers per episode. Using a clever blend of entertainment and education, each Biz Kid$ episode shows kids how to make and manage money by introducing concepts of financial literacy and entrepreneurship. To keep young viewers engaged, the series is a fast-paced mix of direct education delivered by young actors, sketch comedies, animation, and stories featuring real life young entrepreneurs.
Resources Available
Users may view the videos online, download lesson plans, activity sheets, family connection activity sheets, key topics and learning objectives are also provided. The standards are laid out and so are curriculum connections to other content areas.
Permitted Use
BIZKID$ authorizes you to copy materials on thieir site to a hard drive for the purpose of viewing and using the site on your computer. You may also print portions of the site in hard copy for the sole purpose of facilitating your personal, noncommercial use and retention of information from the site. BizKid$ Terms of Use.
Take Charge Today
Description
Take Charge Today, from the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom in the Office of Research, Innovation & Impact at The University of Arizona, .provides curriculum materials designed in a ready-to-teach, modular format. Each lesson includes hands-on learning activities, note-taking guides, worksheets, student reading, PowerPoint presentations and conclusions to reinforce key concepts, along with assessments to test knowledge retention.
Lesson plans are based on the multiple intelligences model and active learning theories. The materials offer maximum flexibility and can be taught sequentially as a complete personal finance course or as modular components that can be easily inserted into other courses.
In order to download materials from the Take Charge Today website, free registration is required.
Professional Learning
Ongoing professional development opportunities help educators develop the skills and confidence to teach financial education are available. Offerings include:
- Trainings and Interactive Workshops
- Take Charge Today Forum
- Video Library and Webinars
- Facebook and Twitter
Permitted Use
The Take Charge Today curriculum copyright University of Arizona is not available under an open license. However, the curriculum is intended for classroom/educational purposes and use of the use of the curriculum materials for educational purposes is permitted , as long as the materials are not altered and/or used for profit-making purposes. Take Charge Today Copyright Letter.
Spanish Resources for K-12 Students
This PDF contains links to financial resources in Spanish.
Digital Games & Activities for Students K-5
This PDF contains links to financial education games and activities for students K-5.
Digital Games & Activities for Students 6-12
This PDF contains links to financial education games and activities for students 6-12.
Attribution and License
Attribution
Notes icon by Gregor Cresnar from the Noun Project
- Econ EdLink | Council for Economic Education
- Econ Lowdown | St. Louis Federal Reserve's Education Program
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Government
- Next Gen Personal Finance | Next Gen Personal Finance
- Take Charge Today | Take Charge Today The University of Arizona
Logos from each of the organizations listed above are used under fair use.
Permitted use of resources from each of the sites above is outlined in their respective sections.
License
Except where otherwise noted, this website guidance document by the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. All logos and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Sections used under fair use doctrine (17 U.S.C. § 107) are marked.
This resource contain links to websites operated by third parties. These links are provided for your convenience only and do not constitute or imply any endorsement or monitoring by OSPI.