We hope you can utilize this course to teach personal finance with confidence, at no cost to you! The course is designed and paced to be administered as a semester-long course, using 9 modules.

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Financial Fitness for Life® (FFFL) is a comprehensive personal finance curriculum for K-12 students that teaches students how to make thoughtful, well-informed decisions about important aspects of personal finance, such as earning income, spending, saving, borrowing, investing, and managing money. Great lessons and a student workbook. We get a 35% discount which we will pass on to our Nebraska schools. Here are links for the teacher’s edition and student workbook.

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Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF): Check out the website that more than 500 Nebraska teachers are using in their personal finance classrooms. Find engaging Arcade games, personal finance lessons, activities and interactives. Participate in PD opportunities that range from one-hour live events to asynchronous on-demand modules and earn gift cards and swag.

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Help your students to think critically about ethical issues and understand why ideas of right and wrong are vital to economic decision making. In this series, students create and support an argument for or against a sweatshop boycott using primary and secondary sources. Consider perspectives related to whether or not businesses have a social responsibility during a simulation, primary source discussion, and creating a marketing pitch for a company’s board of directors. Play the roles of doctors and patients, demonstrating the motives of self-interest, duty, and character in economic transactions. Learn how their bias impacts their decision-making and research.

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Entrepreneurship In Your Community: Creating Your Own Career

• Economics lessons for secondary teachers

• Jamie Wagner, Jennifer Davidson, Sydney Kobza, Matthew Pierson, Gigi Wolf

• Sponsored by Centris, Omaha Center for Economic Education, Nebraska Council on Economic Education

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What happens when you combine simulations, role-playing activities and mystery-based lesson plans with economics? The answer is simple: your students actually learn the concepts.

Put economics to work in your classroom with 14 tried-and-true lesson plans, and have your students actively master concepts like trade, money, opportunity cost, scarcity and inflation quickly and all while having fun.

Each lesson plan in this timeless teacher guide includes teaching procedures (and yes these are step-by-step and super easy to follow too, so econ newbies have no fear), content standards that you'll cover, and reproducible activities and visuals hot off the press and ready to use in seconds.

We get a 35% discount which we will pass on to our Nebraska schools. Here are links for the teacher’s edition and student workbook.

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Engage Students Interactively

Is it ever too early to teach economics to your elementary students? If you want to give them an early understanding of fundamental economics concepts, now is the time to integrate economics into your classroom.

These activity-based lessons give you a seamless way to infuse economics throughout your curriculum. This roadmap to teaching economics to young students gives you easy-to-use lesson plans, teaching tips and fun activities. You'll keep your students actively engaged, and also cover language arts, math and reading content at the same time.

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