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Banking on Our Future

Did you know that the Jump$Start Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy has determined that the average student who graduates from high school lacks basic skills in the management of personal financial affairs? Many find it challenging to balance a checkbook and may have limited insight into the basic survival principles involved with earning, spending and saving for the future.
http://www.jumpstartcoalition.org/

One way to address issues of financial literacy is to begin to teach good financial habits to the young. To this end a number of websites have been developed for middle school age children and youth. These websites could be explored by parent and child as an intergenerational learning experience or adapted into family literacy/life skills lessons for adult students to take home.

www.mymoney.gov
On the US Financial Literacy and Education Commission site, under the link, Kids, is the newly launched Money Math: Lessons for Life. This is a curriculum that uses real-life examples to teach personal finance through middle school mathematics concepts.

www.Bankingonourfuture.org
From Operation Hope an online financial literacy program that consists of three 90 minute, flash animation segments created for 4-5thGraders, 6th-8th Graders and 9th-12 Graders and Adults. All three programs will be available in English and Spanish. According to the Operation Hope newsletter all three programs are standards based". Kids and adults will be engaged and entertained as they learn the nuts and bolts of personal financial education.

www.consumerjungle.org
This web site is geared towards youth though its content is useful for everyone as it is full of savvy tips on how to be an informed consumer. It covers fifty common financial pitfalls and has a consumer fraud of the month tip which includes many topics relevant to adults (i.e. paypal scams, Medicare scams, equity stripping scams, etc.) The website has a teacher guide.