Financial Literacy, Taxes, and Economics Lessons. This evening I opened an email from Edutopia that contained a nice, simple infographic about the importance of financial literacy.
The infographic has some basic statistics about the debt load carried by young people and how personal finance education can change those statistics. The infographic is really just a promotion for Edutopia's other materials about financial literacy. It also reminded me of some other resources for teaching students about personal finance and taxes. As the income tax filing deadline is just a few days away in the United States, I thought it would be good to highlight some resources for teaching about taxes too. Infographic: The Value of Financial Literacy.
Two Hands-on Economics Lessons for Students. Yesterday I had a conversation with a teacher who had developed his own stock market game for his middle school social studies course.
As we were talking I was reminded of a couple of hands-on economics lessons that I have used in the past with high school social studies students. Captains of Industry is an economics simulation activity. The original version of this activity was developed by my colleague Jason Long. What I'm sharing here is the activity as I've modified it for my classroom. My version is about 75% the same as Jason's original. 60 Second Adventures in Economics. Izzit.org: Free Educational Videos. The OOPS History Resource Page.
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