Educator Webinar: Online Resources for Teaching Financial Education

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Teaching Personal Finance with Online Resources

On January 21st, 2021, co-hosts Todd Bonheyo and MaryEllen Graham hosted their third webinar in CSD Learns’ Best Practices of Financial Education Series, this time joined by two guests: Molly Christensen and Ryan Bonheyo, both high school teachers who cover personal finance.

Together, the group explored the world of financial education resources available online, and shared pro-tips about how to integrate them into a classroom set-up, whether it be in-person or online. Molly, who teaches at California School for the Deaf in Fremont, and Ryan, who teaches at Maryland School for the Deaf, discussed what apps and online tools they currently use in their classrooms, as well as how they modify them to best suit their students’ needs.

Want to see what they have to say? Watch a recording of the webinar here:

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Check out these resources recommended by our panelists:

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Next Gen Personal Finance

NGPF offers several engaging online activities for students, including:

The Bean Game and SPENT interactive online game to practice budgeting
The Turbo Tax simulation to explore the taxation process

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Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement USA is a nonprofit that focuses on creating economic empowerment in young people through education.

Visit their website to find programs for elementary, middle, and high schoolers.

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Invest in What's Next

HS Level; tracks how career echoices and education lead to increased salary over time, particularly with respect to college-bound students. This website also features a Teacher’s Guide.

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Budgeting in Real Life

www.goodbudget.com This free mobile app or web-based envelope budgeting system is a real-life budgeting tool, and doesn’t need to be linked to any actual accounts to work.

Mint is a mobile app that does connect to your accounts and can give you insights into your habits to help you reach your goals.

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CSD Learns

CSD Learns' online, self-paced investing and banking courses are easy to incorporate into your curriculum. The best part? They have full language accessibility.

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Nerd Wallet

Nerd Wallet is a great resource for when students need to research more about banking, loans, credit, insurance, and more.

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FRED/GEO FRED

Federal Reserve Economic Data Use for their up-to-date macroeconomic data such as GDP by state or Unemployment Rates. Users can make their own graphs comparing statistics. While this data is more focused on economics, it may be of use to some personal finance lessons.

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PearDeck

This tool is a great way to make interactive lessons for in-person, virtual, and hybrid classrooms. There are a paid and free versions.

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Nearpod

Nearpod makes it easy to make your lessons more engaging with VR, simulations, and gamified quizzes. You'll also be able to keep tabs on your students' progress with their in-depth assessment tools.

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Activities

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Role-Playing

Have students act out the roles of banker, lender, salesperson, to experience the process of applying for a loan or making a large purchase.

Role play taxes, with different students assigned to different income levels paying different percentages, as a way to introduce income brackets

Projects

#Adulting (a real budget project that spans several months of the year using their personal spending habits)

“Where Should I Live” (a project using data driven approaches to help students compare possible places to move/live in the future)

Personal Finance Field trips (in-person or virtual)

Federal Reserve Bank: Most locations offer tours and some are offering virtual tours this year!

Local Apartment leasing office: Learn about how to apply for an apartment, budget for rent, etc.

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If you’re interested in participating in our next free financial workshop series, or receiving recordings of this workshop, funded by the Wells Fargo Foundation, make sure to sign up for updates.

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