The last week of April has been recognized as Money Smart Week

Money Smart Week (MSW) is held during the last week of April.  It aims to help individuals to better manage their personal finances.

Click for more information about Money Smart Week:

•  Events
• Webinars, Videos, Financial Resources, etc.
• Kids: Games, Teacher Resources and More

Visit the K-12 Social Studies Wiki to access Financial Literacy Resources.

For additional instructional resources for personal financial literacy, be sure to register for the PFL Webinar Series featuring: 

• an encore presentation from the North Carolina Council on Economic Education with Sandy Wheat : April 24th from 3:30 pm-4:30 pm click HERE
  
  
• The Office of the Secretary of State with John Maron: April 25th from 3:00 pm-4:00 pm click HERE 

Click to see the 2018 Proclamation of Financial Literacy Month from Governor Roy Cooper.

Economics for Educators Summer Institute for K-12 Teachers

August 6 – 10, 2018
Campbell University
Cost: Free of charge

Grounded in research-based instructional best-practices, this professional development program teaches the economics content in North Carolina’s Essential Standards in a way that makes economics accessible, empowering, and relevant to students’ lives.  Mindful of adult learning theories, all of the economics content will be taught by modeling field-tested lessons, so there is no traditional lecturing. 

Teachers attending this institute will be able to:

• Attend free-of-charge
• Experience learning economics content in similar ways that their students do
• Receive a wealth of classroom-ready, student-centered resources
• Receive differentiated instruction based on the grade levels and subjects represented
• Have an inclusive breakfast and lunch
• Earn 40 hours of professional development (or have the option to pay tuition and earn 3 credit hours)

TO REGISTER:

EMAIL: Your Name School Division and Name Grades/Subjects to Dr. Mostashari Campbell University Mostashari@campbell.edu

Limited to 25 teachers on a first come, first serve basis

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: June 1, 2018

Financial Literacy Resources from Free Spirit Publishing

The Survival Guide for Money Smarts

Earn, Save, Spend, Give

This lively survival guide introduces the basics of financial literacy and money management to kids. Readers will find humorous illustrations and engaging examples that bring to life ideas for setting money goals, delaying gratification, being thrifty, giving to charity, and making socially responsible spending and donating decisions. The authors also offer friendly insight into how choices about money and finances connect to character development and social-emotional well-being.

Learn more and download a free leader's guide.

Fun with Finance: Classroom Activities for Financial Literacy Month

 Help students establish a foundation of money smarts that will help them now and in the future.

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Helping Students Set SMART Goals for Financial Literacy

Setting financial goals can be a fun and inspiring activity for students of any age. And when you keep the focus on the end goal of using money to achieve the lifestyle students want, it can be easier to engage them.

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Great Read Aloud Books for Financial Literacy Month

Berenstain Bears: Trouble With Money

F&P Level L

First Grade thru Third Grade students hear a story about two little bears whose parents use several figures of speech relating to money. Students draw a picture of a bank and write a caption explaining their illustration. Students follow along with the story by listening for additional figures of speech and how they relate to the concepts of banks and interest. The students also construct a story map of an event in the story relating to why people choose to keep their money in banks.

There is even a lesson plan ready to go from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis!

https://www.stlouisfed.org/education/the-berenstain-bears-trouble-with-money

Uncle Jed's Barbershop

F&P Level S

Sarah Jean's Uncle Jed was the only black barber in the county. He had a kind heart and a warm smile. And he had a dream. Living in the segregated South of the 1920's, where most people were sharecroppers. Uncle Jed had to travel all over the county to cut his customers' hair. He lived for the day when he could open his very own barbershop. But it was a long time, and many setbacks, from five-year-old Sarah Jean's emergency operation to the bank failures of the Great Depression, before the joyful day when Uncle Jed opened his shiny new shop — and twirled a now grown-up Sarah Jean around in the barber chair. With James Ransome's richly colored paintings brimming with life, this is a stirring story of dreams long deferred and finally realized.

Here is a great lesson plan to support the book too!

https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/education/teachers/lesson-plans/UncleJedsBarbershop.pdf 

A Chair for My Mother

Students read A Chair for My Mother, about a little girl and her family who save money to buy a chair after their furniture is destroyed in a fire. Students learn that characters in the book are human resources who save part of the income they earn. Students identify other human resources, discuss how their work allows them to earn income and name strategies that will help them reach a savings goal.

There is a lesson plan that support this book, too!

https://www.stlouisfed.org/education/the-berenstain-bears-trouble-with-money

Instructional Resources from The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Middle and High

Invest in What’s Next: Life After High School: Help your students navigate their first major financial decision – what path to pursue after high school. Through online, self-directed lessons, students build personal finance knowledge and skills to help implement a plan that’s right for them.

Photo Essay of MaggieL. Walker: illustrates the life of a visionary leader in the African-American community

Economic Concepts Posters: Find hands-on ideas for teaching economic concepts by using these award-winning, student created illustrations.

Dollars and Sense :Dollars and Sense is a budgeting game for middle and high school students. Students select a lifestyle and budget for expenses and unexpected events.

PSAs in the Classroom: Engage your students with short PSA videos, paired with easy-to-implement classroom activities, to demonstrate economic and personal finance concepts.

Deficit and Debt Direction Connection : Predict the effect of changes in the economy and other events on tax revenue, government spending, the federal budget and the national debt to determine the connection between deficit and debt.

Fed Centennial Lessons Combined: Conduct a readers' theater, interactive card sort, human timeline activity, and more to learn about the Fed’s history and functions, and how its role has evolved over the last 100 years.

Region Focus: Check out selected issues and articles from Region Focus, now titled Econ Focus, and links to related lessons, resources and activities.

The Monetary and Fiscal Policy Two Step: Examine quotes from news sources to distinguish the differences between monetary and fiscal policy.

Elementary

Economic Concepts Posters: Find hands-on ideas for teaching economic concepts by using these award-winning, student created illustrations.

Photo Essay of MaggieL. Walker: illustrates the life of a visionary leader in the African-American community

My Money: Explore lessons such as What Is Money?, Money Equivalents, and Jobs, Money, Goods and Services in this educational package for elementary school students.

Lemonade for Sale: Use the book Lemonade for Sale to discuss and classify productive resources. Hands on activities are a key part of this lesson and extension activities integrate mathematics and language arts into the exercise.

Historical Figure Bookmarks: Discover fun facts, activities and brief biographies that highlight historical figures on coins, and the history of economics, banking and the Federal Reserve System. 

To access more resources and information, please visit: https://www.richmondfed.org/education

For information on presentations, tours, and TCC in Charlotte:

Yolanda Ferguson

Yolanda.Ferguson@rich.frb.org

For information on resources shared:

Kevin Woodcox

Kevin.Woodcox@rich.frb.org

Sarah Gunn

Sarah.Gunn@rich.frb.org