JumpStart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy -- education curriculum, statistics, online exercises for kids and teens http://www.jumpstart.org/index.cfm The National Endowment for Financial Education's (NEFE) Teen Resource Bureau http://www.ntrbonline.org/english/index.html The Investor's Information ClearingHouse, sponsored by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association; detailed information about how to invest http://www.investoreducation.org/about.cfm The Securities and Exchange Administration's "Test Your Money Smarts" Quiz http://www.sec.gov/investor/tools/quiz.htm "Majoring in Credit-Card Debt," Yahoo Finance, BusinessWeek Online http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/sep2007/db2007093_443488.htm "The Dirty Secret of Campus Credit Cards," Yahoo Finance, BusinessWeek Online http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/103479/The-Dirty-Secret-of-Campus-Credit-Cards?mod=oneclick "Credit Cards 101: Finding the Right Plastic," Yahoo Finance, BusinessWeek Online http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/103480/Credit-Cards-101-Finding-the-Right-Plastic Utah State Office of Education Financial Literacy program's Activities for Teens http://www.uen.org/financial_lit/student/teen_activities.shtml The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy http://www.360financialliteracy.org/Life+Stages/Childhood/ Bankrate.com's Financial Calculators (including credit card and investment calculators) http://www.bankrate.com/brm/rate/calc_home.asp Author Hollis Page Harman's Kids' Finance Web site http://www.kidsfinance.com/index.html Kansas State Treasury's Financial Resources Web site http://www.kansasstatetreasurer.com/prodweb/financial_resources.php U.S. Federal Trade Commission, credit information http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menus/resources/articles/credit.shtm About.com information on financial education http://beginnersinvest.about.com/cs/investingforkids1/a/073002a.htm http://financialplan.about.com/cs/moneyforyouth/a/MoneyKids.htm Disney's Family.com financial education article http://family.go.com/parenting/article-SK-19131-Mom-Is-not-an-ATM-t/ The University of Georgia's Economic Well-Being For Individuals and Families http://www.fcs.uga.edu/ext/econ/index.php The University of California's Money Talks, Money Tools for Teens Web site http://www.moneytalks.ucr.edu/english/home.html Consumer Federation of America http://www.consumerfed.org/# U.S. Financial Literacy and Education Commission, links to federal agencies that offer financial education http://www.mymoney.gov Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Money Smart Curriculum for Adults http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/moneysmart/curriculum.html America Saves - how to save money http://www.americasaves.org/default.asp National Consumer League's Life Smarts Online Financial Education Competition for Teens http://start.lifesmarts.org/ CitiBank's Financial Education Curriculum http://financialeducation.citigroup.com/citigroup/financialeducation/curriculum/kids.htm "What's My Score?" VISA USA's Credit Score Web site for teens and young adults http://www.whatsmyscore.org/ Math in Daily Life, How to apply math in making everyday financial decisions http://www.learner.org/interactives/dailymath/index.html The National Bond Market Foundation's Tomorrow's Money Web site for young people https://www.tomorrowsmoney.org/youngpeople/main.cfm The University of Nebraska at Omaha's EcEdWeb financial education Web site http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/K-12/home.cfm Get Rich Slowly, blog providing personal experiences and ideas for saving money http://www.getrichslowly.org/ The Financial Services Roundtable Council on Consumer Finance's financial education Web site http://www.mymoneymanagement.net Five Cent Nickel, a Web blog providing personal tips and ideas about investing http://www.fivecentnickel.com/ Rockburn Elementary School's (Howard County, MD) Rockburn Bank Web site explaining financial topics, written by fourth and fifth grade students http://www.howard.k12.md.us/res/bank/default.html Young Americans Center for Financial Education http://www.yacenter.org/ U.S. Mint’s H.I.P. Pocket Change http://www.usmint.gov/kids/games/
An explanation of compound interest http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/starting/archive/2007/st1107.htm
More on compound interest http://www.latimes.com/business/investing/la-credit-story11,1,180876.story
Owning a car http://www.youthinformation.com/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=91048
Credit card cash advance pitfalls http://www.youngmoney.com/credit_debt/credit_basics/040216_01
Costs of check cashing stores http://www.thebeehive.org/Templates/Money/Level3Image.aspx?PageId=1.194.350.359
Problems with store credit cards http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Banking/CreditCardSmarts/HowManyCreditCardsIsTooMany.aspx
Dangers of store credit cards http://www.credit.com/rs/vol7.jsp
Costs of keeping a car for a teen http://life.familyeducation.com/teen-driving/personal-finance/47215.html
Excellent resource for family financial information http://life.familyeducation.com/personal-finance/money-management/34486.html?detoured=1
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