Resources

FEPPP Education Committee has completed an initial review of Financial Education Curriculum. You may now browse a list of Approved Financial Curriculum.

Educators

• Money Management Lessons and Resources for Kids: Grades K-12
  This guide provided by Maryville University contains lesson plans and resources on financial education topics for all grade levels.
• Federal Reserve Teacher Resources
  Free tools to increase understanding of the Federal Reserve.
• Jump$tart Washington
  Jump$tart Washington is a nonprofit coalition created to promote the need for financial education in Washington State.

Free Curriculum and Programs

• DFI's Money Savvy Program
  Personal finance curriculums for Elementary school, middle school, high school, and college. Also Jump$tart and FEPPP teacher training information.
• DFI's Right on the Money College Book
  Free informative workbook that helps young adults learn to manage their finances from the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions (DFI).
• EconEdLink Lessons
  Offers K-12 online economics teaching materials and lessons.
• Next Gen Personal Finance
  Supporting educators and empowering students.
• Practical Money Skills
  Free Web site designed to help educators, parents and students practice better money management for life. Web site includes K-College curriculum.
• Teaching Kids the Stock Market
  What it is, risk and reward, and ways to invest.
• The Basics of Savings and Investing - Investor Education 2020
  A teaching guide for all settings; college, workplace education, after school programs, seminars for adults, seniors, etc.
• Washington Society of CPA's Scholarships
  A list of state CPA societies offering scholarships to students.
• Investopedia Stock Simulator
  Use this simulator to explore the stock market risk free! Invest any amount of digital money and pick any stocks to fill your portfolio. Watch them grow or lose money as they are in the actual stock market.

Activities and Games for the Classroom

• Chair the Fed Game
  Learn how monetary policy works by taking charge of a simulated economy.
• Elementary - Wise Pockets World
  Interactive stories for children about earning, saving, spending, lending, and borrowing money.
• Middle and High School - Fraud Scene Investigator (FSI)
  An online interactive investor education program that teaches and empowers students how to detect and stop a million-dollar investment fraud.
• Middle and High School - MoneySKILL
  Interactive personal course for high schools, using real-life simulations to help students learn to make informed financial decisions.
• Middle and High School - Stock Market Game
  The Stock Market Game gives students the chance to invest a hypothetical $100,000 in an on-line portfolio.