Personal Finance

Personal Finance is a course designed to help students understand the impact of individual choices on occupational goals and future earnings potential.  Real world topics covered will include income, money management, spending and credit, as well as saving and investing.  Students will design personal and household budgets; simulate use of checking and saving accounts; demonstrate knowledge of finance, debt, and credit management, and evaluate and understand insurance and taxes.  This course will provide a foundational understanding for making informed personal financial decisions.

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Personal Finance Games

Test your knowledge with Financial Soccer, a fast-paced, interactive game that uses the excitement and energy of soccer to engage children and adults in the essential topics of personal finance. The multiple-choice question game offer three distinct skill levels, game lengths, as well as single and two player games.

Meet the challenges of four weeks on the road as you steer your way to financial stability. This game requires players to make decisions about income, expenses and savings. Coming up short on cash means losing your wheels.

Help Ed collect enough money to shop for his favorite things. This entertaining game provides a lighthearted way of teaching younger audiences about saving and differing money values.

Think it’s easy to save up to buy all the things you want and need?  Let’s see if you can do it!

This game helps players learn about debit and credit cards, through managing a budget for a needy celebrity.  After collecting money as well as the items the celebrity wants, you must decide to pay for them with a debit or credit card, which must be paid off if you don’t want to be charged interest.

Play this virtual board game by Disney that lets you pick a goal (i.e. “Pet Rabbit”) and save toward it by putting “Truffles” into piggy bank’s with different savings rates.  At the end, break it to see if you made enough to reach your goal.

The game includes fifteen Missions in which students attempt to help people in financial trouble. Students join the Gen i Revolution, strategically select their Operatives, and begin to explore and earn points as they work to complete each Mission.

Feeling up for a challenge? Then test your cyber smarts with one — or all — of our interactive quizzes on everything from spam and spyware to phishing and file-sharing.

NEFE Success Street Game that applies to High School Financial Planning Workbook.

Quest for Money is a fun game developed by Mint.com and Scholastic that teaches young people to manage their money and achieve financial goals through budgeting and saving.