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Finance & Business

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Teaching Finance Curriculum

Everything you need to teach a NAF Academy of Finance course is here: lesson plans & resources for students/teachers.

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How Financial Markets Can Impact Social Justice

Check out this article that discusses how the financial market can negatively or positively impact social justice.

A Lesson in Spending & Saving

In this NGPF Case Study, students learn about two high school friends with very different savings habits.

A man holding a newspaper titled, "Business."

Introduce Students to Financing Options for Small Businesses

This self-paced training exercise introduces students to how they can get funding for their business.

U.S. Small Business Administration

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Introduction to Financial Accounting

Master the technical skills needed to analyze financial statements and disclosure in financial analysis.

University of Pennsylvania

Accounting Finance Lesson plan

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Identify Ethical Issues in Business

Engage students in Business Ethics by identifying ethical issues and ways to solve the dilemmas people can face daily.

Ethics Lesson plan

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Improving Your Credit

This lesson explores ways to improve your credit history despite how it may be.

Ford - Credit Basics

Article Credit/Loans Personal Finance

How Does the NGPF Academy Work?

NGPF Academy offers and tracks FREE professional development opportunities for educators focusing on personal finance.

Personal Finance

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Explore Consumer/Business Buyer Behavior

Encourage your students to get creative through this four-part project that focuses on Consumer/Business Buyer Behavior.

Marketing Project

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Why Accounting is the Language of Business

Why is it not enough to understand numbers to be a successful accountant? Use this resource as a prompt to groups and more.

University of Pennsylvania

Accounting Video

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Analyze an Income Statement

Use the activity to understand and analyze an income statement.

Article Entrepreneurship

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Practice Comparative Advantage

This video explains how to identify which country has an absolute advantage, calculate opportunity cost, and more.

Economics Video

Build Your $tax

In this arcade game, students have 20 years to build their wealth. Can be played in a group or individually.

Personal Finance Simulations

Playing Financial Football

Play this fast-paced, interactive game that engages students while teaching personal finance skills.

Personal Finance

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Globalization through International Marketing

Look into other cultures and learn about different countries while becoming better global citizens.

Lesson plan Marketing

Explain Income Statements & Profit and Loss

In this tutorial, you'll find out what the Income Statement is and how it can measure a business' financial performance.

Accounting Stuff

Accounting Video

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Learn How to Market to Your Customers

In this self-paced training in market research, students learn to identify their customers and how to market to them.

Collection Marketing

Can You Make it in the Gig Economy?

Students find out if they can make it in the gig economy as an Uber driver with two kids to support and a mortgage payment due.

The Financial Times

Economics Personal Finance Simulations

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Toilet Paper Wars

This fun activity explains the competing forces of supply and demand.

Adam Smith Works

Economics Lesson plan

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Finding & Attracting Investors

To start a business, you must train students in the art of Finding and Attracting Investors. Check out this resource to find out more!

Collection Entrepreneurship

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Teach Economics Using Baseball

Engage students in learning about economics through baseball.

Economics Lesson plan

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Students will be able to define what ethics is and explore some of the ethical dilemmas our society faces.

Ethics Lesson plan

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How Much Toilet Paper is Enough?

This fun calculator calculates how long the amount of toilet paper you have will last you during quarantine.

How Much Toilet Paper?

Personal Finance Project

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Overcoming Challenges through the Lens of Social Justice

In this interdisciplinary project, encourage students to research a social justice challenge in their career theme.

American Federation of Teachers via sharemylesson

Lesson plan Project

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Deliver the Perfect Elevator Pitch

The Perfect Pitch introduces students to pitch their business idea in the best way to potential investors.

Entrepreneurship Lesson plan

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Learn About Business Through an Online Board Game

Have fun with Rento Fortune (similar to Monopoly), an online game where students compete in the fastest business game.

BoardGamesOnline.Net

Entrepreneurship Simulations

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The Accounting Cycle

In this video, your student will learn to analyze business transactions, post to the general ledger and more.

Accounting Video

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Find & Develop Your Leadership Voice

Use this career-themed article about communication and leadership to pique student interest and classroom discussion.

Article Entrepreneurship

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Learn How to Write a Killer Startup Pitch Deck

This video covers writing a first investor pitch deck presentation.

Slidebean: Startups 101

Entrepreneurship Video

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Introduce Tax Basics to Students

In this lesson, students learn about personal finance and earning and reporting income.

The Wharton School

Finance Lesson plan

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Making a General Ledger

Learn about the General Ledger and the importance of having this within any organization holding financial data.

Accounting Video

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Shifting Perspectives

Involve your students in discussing the top financial centers in the world.

Visual Capitalist

Article Finance

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Don’t Buy Stuff You Can’t Afford

Engage students in Saturday Night Live’s skit about a unique program to manage debt.

Saturday Night Live

Personal Finance Video

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Writing a Business Plan

Learn how to create a business plan after completing the U.S Small Business Administration’s self-paced training.

Collection Entrepreneurship

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The Paycheck Breakdown: What You Earn Is Not What You Keep

Students learn the breakdown of their paycheck to explain why what you earn is not what you keep.

The Wharton School

Article Personal Finance

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Design a New Drink

Experience the journey of real young entrepreneurs & research their characteristics in this project.

Entrepreneurship Project

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Learn About Credit Card Use

In this lesson students learn the joys and dangers of using credit.

Credit/Loans Lesson plan Personal Finance

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Building Financial Accounting Foundations

Start your journey with financial accounting and statements, then code financial transactions.

University of Illinois

Accounting Online Course

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Is COVID-19 Taking a Toll on Women’s Careers?

Businesses have a legal & ethical responsibility with gender diversity. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has had a toll.

Article Finance Careers

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Explaining the Trial Balance

Learn about the important step taken to complete accounting within a business.

Accounting Video

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Buy a Car Virtually

Students explore different financing options and understanding opportunity cost, by buying a car virtually.

Lesson plan Personal Finance

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Play Accounting Jeopardy

Students have fun demonstrating their understanding of accounting by playing Accounting Jeopardy!

The Wharton School

Accounting Lesson plan

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Effective Business Communication

Learn to apply the basics of effective written and oral communication in a business scenario.

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Entrepreneurship Online Course

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Read About Women in the Workplace in 2020

Introduce students to this ethical dilemma and use the article to guide them through a discussion of this mini-case study.

McKinsey & Company

Article Finance Careers

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Establishing & Managing Credit

In this lesson, students learn to manage credit responsibly and how this translates into a credit score.

Ford - Credit Basics

Article Credit/Loans

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Introduce the Accounting Cycle

This video gives students an introduction to each step of the Accounting Cycle.

Gleim Accounting

Accounting Video

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What Are the Four Types of Economics?

Use this video to introduce the four types of economies to your students.

Economics Video

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Business & Impact Planning for Social Enterprises

Are you a social entrepreneur? Learn how to articulate potential impact, theory of change, and more.

Entrepreneurship Online Course

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Reinventing Ethical Entrepreneurship

This exercise draws out the significance of trust by exposing students to a competitive advertising game.

Strata Academic Programs

Entrepreneurship Ethics Lesson plan

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Understanding Your Credit Score & Report

This lesson introduces the three major nationwide credit bureaus that use your credit history to develop a credit score.

Ford - Credit Basics

Article Credit/Loans

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Compare Economic Systems

Students discuss how different societies answer the same fundamental economic questions by comparing economic systems.

Economics Lesson plan

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Learn About Entrepreneurship

Students will gain understanding of the critical role played by entrepreneurs in the national and global economy.

Entrepreneurship Lesson plan

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Explore Business Economics

An introduction to the key concepts of economics with business and differentiates microeconomics from macroeconomics.

Economics Lesson plan

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Learn About the Principles of Accounting

Introduce the accounting process and how it facilitates decision making by providing data to internal and external stakeholders.

Accounting Lesson plan

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The 8 Important Steps in the Accounting Cycle

This article breaks down the entire process of a bookkeeper’s responsibilities into eight basic steps.

Accounting Article

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Learn About Diminishing Returns and the Production Function

This video explains the idea of fixed resources and the law of diminishing marginal returns.

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Start Your Own Business

This project has an entrepreneur realize their dreams through ITC, Business and Finance, and English Language-Arts.

Entrepreneurship Lesson plan

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Learn How an Income Statement is Like Water in a Bathtub

Students will learn how an Income Statement is like water in a bathtub by analyzing the different bath water scenarios.

Accounting Lesson plan

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Determine the Best Payment Option

In this activity, students will determine which payment type to use while learning the pros and cons of credit card use.

NextGen Personal Finance

Lesson plan Personal Finance

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Invest in What’s Next: Life After High School

An online mini-course that helps students navigate their first major financial decision: what path to pursue after high school.

The Federal Reserve Banks of Richmond and San Francisco

Online Course Personal Finance

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Learning Personal Finances

No-Frills Money Skills Video Series covers a variety of personal finance topics & its importance in day-to-day life.

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Personal Finance Video

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Entrepreneurship in the Classroom

The Federal Bank of Kansas City Entrepreneurship in the Classroom resources offer activities, lessons & resources.

The Federal Bank of Kansas City

Collection Entrepreneurship

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Improve Digital Literacy

Capital One Future Edge is a free digital literacy program that gives everyone access to the digital skills needed today.

Article Finance Careers

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Travel Virtually

AICPA offers a virtual field trip for students to visit the wonderful world of accounting — without ever leaving the classroom.

Accounting Lesson plan