- Allowance Statistics
- How much money kids get, according to a nonscientific poll; by age
and amount received weekly.
- AP Macroeconomics Review
- Provides review material for the AP Macroeconomics Exam in .pdf format.
- The
Business of Babysitting - How to be a great babysitter and earn
money doing it.
- Change Maker - An educational
game where the player must calculate the change given for a money purchase.
Currencies from the United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom,
and Mexico are available.
- Credit
Rules Bookmark - Simple rules about your obligations in using credit,
from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
- Dumb With Money- Reviews
common mistakes made with money and finance and how to avoid them.
- Escape from Knab - Travelers
stranded in the Cyberspace world of Knab must earn money and invest
it wisely to get back home.
- FAQs about United
States Paper Currency - All you ever wanted to know about US paper
money: how it is produced, whose picture gets chosen, how much is printed,
trivia questions; from the US Dept. of the Treasury.
- FBLA-PBL Online - Home page
for Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL) which
is a nonprofit educational association of students preparing for careers
in business; links businesspeople, parents, and junior high and high
school students in local chapters.
- FDIC:
Learning Bank - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is the
US governmental agency that insures bank depositors if their bank fails.
This site is designed to help kids know how this agency works and why
it is important to have.
- FleetKids - Fleet Financial
Group presents a site which has games that teach how to run a business,
manage money, set financial goals, and budget. Registration is required,
but is free and there is a privacy clause. Games can be played individually,
but signing up schools and teachers is encouraged.
- In the Mix -
Online companion to the PBS special "Financial Literacy: On The Money"
includes resources, activities, information, advice, video clips, and
polls.
- Junior Achievement - Junior Achievement's
purpose is to educate young people to value free enterprise, understand
business and economics and be workforce ready. One part of this site
is a stock simulations and competitions page that helps students learn
about the stock market.
- Just For the Fun of It
- A few quick sights and sounds of money, literally.
- Kids
and Money, a Newsletter for Young People - A newsletter for young
people and their parents about managing money, from the North Dakota
State University Extension Service.
- Kids Can Save - Fantasy story
with activities to encourage kids to pay themselves first, start saving
early, and stick with a plan. In English and French.
- Kids' Money
Q & A - Children ask questions and get answers on how to make
money.
- KidsBank.Com - Sovereign Bank
of New England presents a tutorial for kids designed to explain the
basics of such banking services as how savings, interest, and checking
works.
- Learn to Save
- Activities and lessons to help kids learn how to manage money.
- The Liberty
Bill Project - Children across the country are asking Congress to
put an abridged version of the U.S. Constitution on the back of U.S.
one dollar bills.
- Moneyopolis - Game challenges
kids to earn, save, and spend money. Players are given "seed money"
and then visit the game's seven centers: financial planning, job, banking,
shopping, education, community centers and city hall; includes teacher's
guide.
- Salomon Smith Barney Young
Investors Network - Salomon Smith Barney's page designed to help
kids learn the basics of investing. Registration required, but is free.
- Savings Account Online
Guide- a site for anyone considering placing any money in an Savings
Account Online, regardless of the sum of money.
- SmartStart - Presented
by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce which has a savings account
program they are marketing, this site also has informative games, advice
on how to manage an allowance, advice on how to save.
- The Stock Market Game
- An interactive educational program that takes place over ten weeks.
Designed for grades 4 through 12 and to be used in a school setting,
but others may participate. A small registration fee may be required;
participants register through their state or country coordinator, listed
on the site. Sponsored by the nonprofit Securities Industry Foundation
for Economic Education and endorsed by the National Council on Economic
Education.
- The Universal Currency Converter
- How many Mexican pesos equal one U.S. dollar? How much does one Canadian
dollar equal in U.S. money? This online calculator will tell you what
the money in one country is worth in the money of another country.
- The US Mint's Site for Kids
- The awesome history of coins and how the Mint makes money. Interactive
Clubhouse for kids and teachers.
- Wall Street Wizard - Site
allows teens to sign for an e-mail newsletter that provide them with
information on investing.
- Young Americans Bank and
Education Foundation - Programs are designed to provide children
with knowledge about the free enterprise system. It includes online
tutorials as well as information about summer camp and other programs.
- Young Investor Web Site
- Site offer kids and teens to learn the fundamentals of money and investing.
- Young Money Online Game Show
- Play the game to learn about finance and win prizes. Requires Shockwave.
- YoungBiz - Information on business,
investing, and entrepreneurship for teenagers.
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