Shaping Up Your Financial Future contains 17 action-oriented lessons where students make decisions about earning an income, saving and spending, using credit, and budgeting. Lessons include background information, preparation materials, student activities, and assessments to promote active learning. All lessons are tied to standards for personal finance and economic literacy. A Student Workbook highlights topics covered in each lesson and a Parent's Guide allows for additional reinforcement in the home. A companion web-site offers further information on the series and sample activities. Featured topics include: Relating Education to income and standard of living, cost of spending vs. saving Setting financial goals Effect of taxes on consumers Developing and managing a budget Students also explore how education can improve productivity why income levels differ how to set goals the effect of simple vs. compound interest and how inflation affects purchase decisions. CD-ROM This companion CD-ROM contains all of the content at all grade levels. The CD-ROM allows teachers to access and use the printed material in a searchable and customizable format and also includes 3 interactive student activities at each grade-level.Also Available:Financial Fitness for Life: Examiner's Manual - Grades 6-8 - ISBN 1561835277Financial Fitness for Life: Steps to Financial Fitness - Grades 3-5 - Teacher Guide - ISBN 1561835420The Council for Economic Education envisions a world in which people are empowered through economic and financial literacy to make informed and responsible choices throughout their lives as consumers, savers, investors, workers, citizens, and participants in our global economy. Some of the areas in K-12 education we publish in include: - Establishing and building credit - Managing personal finances - Understanding economics on a local, national, and global level - Using economics in other subject areas: Social Studies, Geography, History, etc.

Financial Fitness For Life: Teacher Guide Grades 6-8 (Financial Fitness for Life) (Financial Fitness for Life)

Education & Teaching

Sheryl Szot Gallaher

Barbara Flowers

Schools & Teaching

National Council on Economic Education

Shaping Up Your Financial Future contains 17 action-oriented lessons where students make decisions about earning an income, saving and spending, using credit, and budgeting. Lessons include background information, preparation materials, student activities, and assessments to promote active learning. All lessons are tied to standards for personal finance and economic literacy. A Student Workbook highlights topics covered in each lesson and a Parent's Guide allows for additional reinforcement in the home. A companion web-site offers further information on the series and sample activities. Featured topics include: Relating Education to income and standard of living, cost of spending vs. saving Setting financial goals Effect of taxes on consumers Developing and managing a budget Students also explore how education can improve productivity why income levels differ how to set goals the effect of simple vs. compound interest and how inflation affects purchase decisions. CD-ROM This companion CD-ROM contains all of the content at all grade levels. The CD-ROM allows teachers to access and use the printed material in a searchable and customizable format and also includes 3 interactive student activities at each grade-level.
Also available:
Mathematics &amp; Economics: Connections for Life, 6-8 - ISBN 1561836036 Learning, Earning and Investing: Middle School - ISBN 1561835692
The Council for Economic Education envisions a world in which people are empowered through economic and financial literacy to make informed and responsible choices throughout their lives as consumers, savers, investors, workers, citizens, and participants in our global economy.
 Some of the areas in K-12 education we publish in include:
 - Establishing and building credit
 - Managing personal finances
 - Understanding economics on a local, national, and global level
 - Using economics in other subject areas: Social Studies, Geography, History, etc.

Shaping Up Your Financial Future: Grade 6-8 Student Workouts (Financial Fitness for Life)

Chances are you have this book in hand because you believe your child's ability to succeed in the real world requires becoming '“financially fit'”. We developed the Financial Fitness for Life series of publications because we wholeheartedly agree! For more than 50 years, the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) has been calling attention to the need to educate our young people effectively in the practical skills of economics and personal finance, and showing the best ways to meet that need. The current 'financial fitness' program - of which this parent guide is a key component - is a dramatic step in the direction of improving economic and financial literacy. For the first time, NCEE is offering a stand-alone parent guide and we are very excited about engaging parents in teaching “financial fitness. We have found that students exposed to an economic way of thinking are more self-confident and capable of making smart financial decisions, are better in saving and investing, in building solid careers, and acting as informed citizens. In other words, when they gain an understanding of how the '“real' world works, they improve their prospects for better lives in it. We also know that a key ingredient for any child's successful learning is parental involvement in their education. Research shows that students learn a considerable amount of their economic decision making from their parents. Therefore, the activities we have provided in this book for you to do with your child can be a very important component of your child's financial fitness development. The complete ten-book series contains two parent's guides - one to accompany lessons geared to grades K-5, and another for grades 6-12. In each guide book, there is an overview of the content covered in each student workbook, designed for the four grade levels (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12). Each level has an accompanying teacher resource manual which is aligned with your parent guide. The parent guide contains suggested activities that are fun and that you and your child can do together to enhance learning personal finance principles and skills. Each guide also contains a listing of additional resources.
Also available:
Financial Fitness For Life: Teacher Guide Grades 6-8 - ISBN 1561835447 Financial Fitness for Life: Steps to Financial Fitness - Grades 3-5 - Student Workouts - ISBN 1561835439
The Council for Economic Education envisions a world in which people are empowered through economic and financial literacy to make informed and responsible choices throughout their lives as consumers, savers, investors, workers, citizens, and participants in our global economy.
 Some of the areas in K-12 education we publish in include:
 - Establishing and building credit
 - Managing personal finances
 - Understanding economics on a local, national, and global level
 - Using economics in other subject areas: Social Studies, Geography, History, etc.

Financial Fitness for Life: Parent's Guide Grades 6-12 (Financial Fitness for Life)

John S. Morton

Mark C. Schug

Is it ever to early too teach economics to your elementary students? If you want to give them an early understanding of fundamental economics concepts, now is the time to integrate economics into your classroom. 
 These activity-based lessons give you a seamless way to infuse economics throughout your curriculum. This roadmap to teaching economics to young students gives you easy-to-use lesson plans, teaching tips and fun activities. You'll keep your students actively engaged, and also cover language arts, math and reading content at the same time.
Also available:
Focus: Grades 3-5 Economics - ISBN 1561835358 Financial Fitness for Life: Pocket Power - Grades K-2 - Student Storybook - ISBN 1561835412
The Council for Economic Education envisions a world in which people are empowered through economic and financial literacy to make informed and responsible choices throughout their lives as consumers, savers, investors, workers, citizens, and participants in our global economy.
 Some of the areas in K-12 education we publish in include:
 - Establishing and building credit
 - Managing personal finances
 - Understanding economics on a local, national, and global level
 - Using economics in other subject areas: Social Studies, Geography, History, etc.

Focus: Economics - Grades K-2

Martha Hopkins

Geanie Channell

Barbara Phipps

Debbie Shearer

Financial Fitness for Life Student Workbook, Grades 6-8

Studying & Workbooks

Council for Economic Education

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