Find resources, activities and lesson plans to help young adults overcome financial challenges and learn money basics. Our Facilitator's Guide provides meaningful activities and the Young Money Magazine: Special Edition Guide for Your Life, Your Money features stories and helpful tips written for young adults. Whether you're a teacher, facilitator, or parent, you will find useful ways to get someone's financial life on track.
These accompanying lesson plans and activities (for grades 11 & 12, as well as, adult learners) will help you, and those you teach, learn a lot about how to become financially literate and stay that way for life!
Find some helpful lessons and activities not found in the Classroom Guide.
Examine what it means to have personal financial freedom.
This activity helps students create their own personal spending plan.
Learn how to select a credit card through comparing and contrasting card options.
Investigate how an individual's career choice might affect their financial future.
Explore and reflect how popular culture impacts our views of money.
Learn more about the Hip-Hop Summit and what it means on a cultural level.
Examine what it means to have personal financial freedom.
Have students compare "Needs" versus "Wants".
Learn how to select a bank through comparing and contrasting bank options.
This activity helps students create their own personal spending plan.
Learn how to read and understand a credit card bill.
Analyze the differences between debit and credit cards.
Explore and research the many options of student loans.
Learn how to select a credit card through comparing and contrasting card options.
Research and explore the many types of savings.
Explore how and why you should begin planning for retirement.
Investigate how your money can grow on its own through compound interest.
Investigate how an individual's career choice might affect their financial future.
Explore the importance of health insurance.
Create a presentation which informs the class on a particular type of insurance.
Investigate how having a dependent increases the need for different types of insurance.
Learn how to read a pay stub and what taxes are taken from your actual earnings.
Analyze the rewards and challenges of self-employment.
Interview a local business owner to learn what it’s like being your own boss.
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