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Loan Amortization Schedule
http://www.loanamortizationschedule.org
Creates loan amortization schedule, showing principal payments, interest payments, and the balance of a loan.

Budget Worksheets
http://www.budgetworksheets.org
Free printable budget worksheets for financial planning.

How Rich Are You
http://www.globalrichlist.com
How Rich Are You?
Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in world.
Wondering what it would be like to have that sort of cash. But where would you sit on one of those lists? Here's your chance to find out.

Video: Investing Money in Plain English
http://www.commoncraft.com/investing-money
Video: Investing Money in Plain English
A short explanation of the risks and potential benefits of investing money and compares investing to saving money.

Bank Junior
http://www.bankjr.com/
Bank Junior
The original idea for this website, Bankjr.com, came from a mother. She saw the need to teach her children what money is and how it works in our lives. In 1999, she suggested to her son, creative director at Zions Bank, that perhaps a website could be developed to make such information available to help teach kids in school.
Zions Bank wants students, their teachers and parents to appreciate money and make it their friend. They need to learn to use it and numbers in general with confidence. Neither numbers nor money will ever go away or our desire or need to use them.

Borrowing Money in Plain English (video)
http://www.commoncraft.com/borrowing-money
Borrowing Money in Plain English (video)
This video teaches the risks and realities of borrowing money.

Saving Money in Plain English (online video/presentation)
http://www.commoncraft.com/saving-money
Saving Money in Plain English
An introduction to the magic of compound interest and how it helps money grow over time. Part of a series on financial basics.

Empower Children Through Financial Literacy
http://sic.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3505.html
Empower Children Through Financial Literacy (Podcast)
"The naysayers believed that children did not need to know about money matters, and that her cause was a wasted one.
Billimoria knew better. Leveraging her vast experience in pioneering social enterprises, she chose the most difficult countries and piloted her venture. After a staggering success in 11 nations, Aflatoun is set to cover more than one million children via a campaign run in over 75 countries by the year 2010."

Free Printable Budget Worksheets
http://dollartimes.com/download-and-print/budget-worksheets.htm
Free Printable Budget Worksheets
Under Budget Amount, enter the projected cost for the expense. When the month is over, enter the actual cost under Actual Amount. This helps you see how well you estimate your expenses.
Family | Vacation / Travel | Pet Costs | Blank | Custom |

Family and Money - fight over money (Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUNSOYwSOh8
Family and Money - fight over money (Video)
The story of money woes in a typical Chinese family.
This 10-minute movie on money shares with you the need for all of us to know the importance of how our family background affect the way we see and utilize money in our daily lives. Believe or not, the set of belief systems we grew up with, our life values, our expectations of people and life, and our family, relatives, friends and colleagues, all directly affect our concept of money.
Often, family communication is the biggest stumbling block. Ineffective communication – the spoken & unspoken words about money – often creates many misunderstandings, which you will see in this short movie. How can we then effectively deal with the money issues confronting us with our family on a daily basis? This is what the movie is about.
An Abacus For Money Production
www.AbacusForMoney.com

Financial Literacy : Free Online Course
http://alison.com/courses/Financial-Literacy
Financial Literacy : Free Online Course
Financial education can help you to avoid bad financial decisions, credit card debt and poor financial planning for the future. In this interactive multimedia course, a series of seven dynamic modules covering everything from how to set up your first bank account to planning for your retirement will put you on the path to financial fitness.
The course is suitable for the young, the workforce and for families – or indeed anyone seeking an introduction to financial skills.
This version of the Financial Literacy course has been created primarily for residents of the USA.

Financial Literacy
http://tinyurl.com/462tc4
Managing finances is something most people struggle with
This unit is going to build on work which students cover in their Mathmatics and Citizenship lessons, supported by the use of ICT.
By the end of the unit, students will understand such issues such as taxation, mortgages and insurance, understand how to manage finances, use a computer system to help them manage their money and make financial predictions and plans for the future.
The resources for the six lessons can be found on the lesson pages; ideally, teachers should source a computer room equipped with an interactive whiteboard.

Kids Financial Games & Educational Activities
http://tinyurl.com/67mkjw
Kids Financial Games & Educational Activities
Introducing Savings Quest, the budgeting game that tests your ability to save for the things you want while paying for all the things you need.

Comics ... Finance Themes
http://www.newyorkfed.org/publications/result.cfm?comics=1
This catalog contains 12 comics that explain financial and economic subjects - from consumer credit to inflation.
Order a maximum of 35 copies for free.

Teen Cash Class
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/attachment/teen_cash_guide.pdf
Teen Cash Class
In July 2007, the ITV1 Tonight programme gave me a challenge: take a class of ordinary teenagers for one day and turn them into junior Money Saving Experts.
It was a scary concept, and like nothing I’d tried before. Yet the results were astonishing: after class, the 12 pupils went home and saved their families a whopping £5,050!
This Teen Cash Class guide has been written using transcripts from those six hours’ filming and, hopefully, will allow anyone – teen and adult – to learn the same fundamentals and become true MoneySavers.

AboutMoneyTalk
http://www.AboutMoneyTalk.com.
AboutMoneyTalk
AboutMoneyTalk.com is a “people-oriented” website where we talk about daily money issues. We feature people from all walks of life and of all ages – from the young to the elderly, from couples to families – who share their experiences, thoughts, emotions and behaviour that have greatly impacted their actions and beliefs in handling money.
Here at AboutMoneyTalk.com, we understand the paramount importance of being equipped with personal money skills to see a person throughout his or her life – from childhood to adolescence, early adulthood (20s to 30s) to middle age (40s and 50s) and subsequently through the golden years (60s onwards).

Build Money Worksheets
http://www.mathfactcafe.com/money/?vid=680
Build Money Worksheets ... online ... free

Personal Finance online videos
http://video.learnedvalue.com/index.php?cat=4
Personal Finance Instructional online videos
e.g.
Saving money at the grocery store
Planning for Retirement vs Planning for Old Age
How to Make Money with Your Ideas & Inventions
Rich Dad Poor Dad With Robert Kiyosaki
Wealth Secret - Affirmation 1

Teen Cash Class
http://images2.moneysavingexpert.com/attachment/teen_cash_guide.pdf
Summer 2007 for ITV I was challenged to teach twelve 15-year olds for a day and turn them into Money Saving Experts; when they went home they saved their parents over £5,000.
This new print & keep guide is based on the lesson plans; and whether you’re a kid or a grown-up takes you through three core MoneySaving lessons. It’s also designed so teachers can use it as base for class-room lessons. Free PDF

Wesabe
http://www.wesabe.com/
Wesabe makes it easy to better understand how you spend your money and links you to a community of people dedicated to helping each other make better financial decisions.
web 2.0

UK Money : for young children
http://www.oup.co.uk/oxed/primary/funzone/funzone.html/omzshopping.html/
Simple interactive online exercise to help very young children learn about English (UK) money.

Financial capability : Units of Work (UK OFSTED)
http://www.qca.org.uk/15037.html
Financial capability : Units of Work (UK OFSTED)
The units on these pages contain activities to help (UK) teachers deliver aspects of the PSHE non-statutory frameworks at all key stages.
The units are not a scheme of work, but could be used as part of a wider programme of training and support or to enhance a school? existing scheme of work.
The units are divided into three groups: sex and relationship education (SRE), healthy lifestyles (which covers aspects of physical, social and emotional health) and financial capability.
Guidance for delivery of the units and a PSHE programme of work is provided in the Teacher? handbook, which can be downloaded from this page.
Sex and relationship education | Healthy lifestyles | Financial capability | Drug, alcohol and tobacco education |

Practical Money Skills
http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/english/index.php
Practical Money Skills
PracticalMoneySkills.com is a free Web site designed to help educators, parents and students practice better money management for life.
In addition to providing online tools and resources via www.practicalmoneyskills.com, Visa has created free classroom material that educators can use to teach personal finance. Available online or in a binder format, the classroom curriculum is free. It offers a teacher's guide, student worksheets and quizzes and interactive brain-teasers that can be played by students via the Web or from a CD-ROM.

SoundMoney ... radio prog archived to listen online
http://www.soundmoney.org
SoundMoney
Visitors can listen any time (via this site) to recent broadcasts of this popular radio show on personal finance.

Kids Money Q & A
http://www.kidsmoney.org/advice.htm
Kids Money Q & A

Kids Calculator
http://www.fecuiowa.org/calculators/kcalcb.shtm
Kids Calculator ... to figure out how much money you will make in a savings account

Money Matic
http://www.fleetkids.com/mm/mm.b.html
An online game to help learn how to manage money.

KidsBank
http://www.kidsbank.com/
KidsBank.com?is a tutorial website brought to you by Sovereign Bank that explains the fundamentals of money and banking to children.
KidsBank.com?was developed to provide parents with an informative and fun place to bring their children for answers to money-related questions.
KidsBank.com?will de-mystify the process of banking for children and give them the confidence they need to spend and save their money wisely.

Financial Glossary
http://www.investorwords.com/
Financial Glossary ... over 5000 investing terms

Electric Money
http://www.pbs.org/opb/electricmoney/teaching_guide/teaching_guide.htm
Included here are five interdisciplinary teaching units with lesson plans correlated to the national standards, along with a variety of discussion questions and interactive activities designed to get your students thinking about the impact of all sorts of financial transactions.
These lessons are designed to accompany a version of the series specially edited for classroom use. The classroom video version of ELECTRIC MONEY has short segments of video tied to activities within each lesson. Although it is more convenient to use the classroom video version as a companion to the teacher's guides, under PBS's liberal off-air taping privileges you can use a VHS copy of the program in your classroom that is taped from the broadcast.

Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy
http://www.jumpstartcoalition.org/
Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy
Jump$tart's aim is to identify high-quality personal finance materials for educational use. The Clearinghouse is a database of personal finance resources available from a variety of education providers such as government, business and non-profit organizations.
The Coalition? direct objective is to encourage curriculum enrichment to insure that basic personal financial management skills are attained during the K-12 educational experience. The wheels of education do not need to be reinvented, they simply require balance.

Federal Reserve Education
http://www.federalreserveeducation.org/
Federal Reserve Education
The Federal Reserve is committed to economic and personal financial education. 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.
Visit this Federal Reserve System Web site dedicated to personal financial education and the idea that there is a lot to learn about money.

Practical Money Skills for Life
http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com
Practical Money Skills for Life
PracticalMoneySkills.com is a free Web site designed to help educators, parents and students practice better money management for life. Americans think that financial basics are as important as the three R's traditionally taught in school. In fact, according to a Visa survey, 77 percent of parents believe personal money management is a subject "very important" to their children's lives as adults -- second only to writing at 89 percent.
In addition to providing online tools and resources via www.practicalmoneyskills.com, Visa has created free classroom material that educators can use to teach personal finance. Available online or in a binder format, the classroom curriculum is free. It offers a teacher's guide, student worksheets and quizzes and interactive brain-teasers that can be played by students via the Web or from a CD-ROM.