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1 Technology in Personal Finance Claire Arbaugh Dobyns-Bennett High School Kingsport, TN carbaugh@k12k.com

2 Practical Money Skills http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/ A web-site that offers an educators section that provides lesson plans, activities, presentations, games and calculators. My students particularly enjoy the Financial Football (sponsored by Visa and the NFL)

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4 Family Economics & Finance Education http://fefe.arizona.edu/ Our mission is to provide educators with no-cost curriculum materials and the skills and confidence to effectively teach family economics and finance to their students. You have to register with the site but it provides a wide variety of lesson plans.

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6 Federal Reserve Education http://www.federalreserveeducation.org Here you can find links to instructional materials and tools that can increase your understanding of the Federal Reserve, economics and financial education. All of the Fed web sites, curriculum, newsletters, booklets and other resources are free. Also a great place to link to many other resources.

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8 Council for Economic Education http://www.councilforeconed.org This web-site offers: –Lesson plans for all ages (free) –Games –Resource material (for purchase) –Teacher tutorials

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10 Insurance http://www.griffithfoundation.org/ Loaded with great information, supplemental materials and even video clips, “Curriculum Online” allows you to educate your students about insurance and risk management in a manner that is fun, engaging and relevant to their everyday lives. “Curriculum Online” provides teachers with a classroom-ready product that allows them more information to share with their students and less time to have to spend preparing the lesson plans and gathering the material.

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12 Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Educators (LIFE) www.lifehappens.org Easy to use insurance tutorials and calculators http://www.vpw.com/partner/life/ A partner with life that offers a FREE insurance DVD with resources

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15 Life (Liberating Individuals thru Financial Education) http://lifewithecu.com/ The purpose of LIFE is to: –Educate community members of all ages to better understand their personal finances in hopes of affording them a more positive financial future –Assist educators, mentors, non-profit, and service agencies by providing centrally located financial education resources as they work to strengthen our communities –Counteract popular culture and deceptive advertising by providing a trustworthy source when individuals have questions about how to handle financial situations –Provide positive alternatives in an effort to prevent delinquencies, foreclosures, repossessions, and bankruptcies

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18 Young Money http://www.youngmoney.com/ In response to the economic downturn, Young Money is providing financial literacy packages for universities, businesses, and credit unions

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20 Stock Market Game http://vse.marketwatch.com/Game/Homep age.aspxhttp://vse.marketwatch.com/Game/Homep age.aspx Virtual Stock Market Game, you create the game and the “rules”, your students play and enjoy the competition.

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22 Quia www.quia.com Quia offers the Web's most extensive collection of educational tools and templates. With Quia, you can create your own educational games, quizzes, class web pages, surveys and much more. Also gain access to activities already created by other teachers A one-year individual subscription to Quia costs only $49.

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24 Additional Resources Financial Literacy Challenge – Sponsored by the US Department of the Treasury Chad Foster – Financial Literacy for Teens How to do your Banking (workbook) http://www.timeme.com/ - stopwatcheshttp://www.timeme.com/


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