Understanding Personal Finances

Financial Literacy Website Resources

CFA Society Boston's Financial Literacy volunteers -- all financial professionals -- have researched the websites below and determined they are relevant to teaching children about personal finances.

Teacher's Financial Literacy Summer Institute 2019: Free — Champlain College's Center For Financial Literacy
Couponing for Kids: Consumer Math Games
Next Gen Personal Finance
The First Money Lesson to Teach Your Children: This is What a Dollar Looks Like — The Wall Street Journal
Accounting: Teens and Kids — UAB Collat School of Business
econedlink — Economics in Children's Literature
The Stock Market Game
econedlink — Economics in Children's Literature
PBS Kids Videos
ECON Illinois
Family Education
Kids Econ Posters — Giving every student the tools to be economically and financially literate.
Forbes: The 5 Most Important Money Lessons To Teach Your Kids
The Wall Street Journal — The Smart Way to Teach Children About Money
Jump Start Financial Smarts for Students
The United States Mint h.i.p pocket change — Facts every kid should know
Sesame Street for Parents
Family Education — Monday and kids (Games to teach your child the value of saving and spending wisely.)
The Telegraph — 25 questions to ask your child
18 Ways to Teach Children the Value of Money
Parents Magazine — Teaching Kids About Money: An Age-by-Age Guide
USA.gov -- Financial Literacy Lesson Plans
TreasuryDirect.gov — Money Math: Lessons for Life
FDIC — Money Smart for Young People Series

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