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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.
NAF
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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.
Forbes
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A Lesson in Spending & Saving
In this NGPF Case Study, students learn about two high school friends with very different savings habits.
NGPF
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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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Buy a Car Virtually
Students explore different financing options and understanding opportunity cost, by buying a car virtually.
CTE Online
Lesson planPersonal Finance
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Introduce the Accounting Cycle
This video gives students an introduction to each step of the Accounting Cycle.
Gleim Accounting
AccountingVideo
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Practice Comparative Advantage
This video explains how to identify which country has an absolute advantage, calculate opportunity cost, and more.
Jacob Clifford
VideoEconomics
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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.
SBA
MarketingCollection
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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.
SBE
EntrepreneurshipCollection
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Building Financial Accounting Foundations
Start your journey with financial accounting and statements, then code financial transactions.
University of Illinois
AccountingOnline Course
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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
EntrepreneurshipOnline Course
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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.
Solve by MIT
EntrepreneurshipOnline Course
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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
AccountingLesson planFinance
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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.
CTE Online
MarketingProject
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Playing Financial Football
Play this fast-paced, interactive game that engages students while teaching personal finance skills.
Visa/NFL
Personal Finance
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Toilet Paper Wars
This fun activity explains the competing forces of supply and demand.
Adam Smith Works
Lesson planEconomics
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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?
ProjectPersonal Finance
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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.
YouTube
AccountingVideo
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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.
YouTube
AccountingVideo
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Design a New Drink
Experience the journey of real young entrepreneurs & research their characteristics in this project.
CTE Online
EntrepreneurshipProject
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Explaining the Trial Balance
Learn about the important step taken to complete accounting within a business.
YouTube
AccountingVideo
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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
ArticleCredit/Loans
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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
ArticleCredit/Loans
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Improving Your Credit
This lesson explores ways to improve your credit history despite how it may be.
Ford - Credit Basics
ArticleCredit/LoansPersonal Finance
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Analyze an Income Statement
Use the activity to understand and analyze an income statement.
EconEdLink
EntrepreneurshipArticle
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
AccountingVideo
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Teach Economics Using Baseball
Engage students in learning about economics through baseball.
EconEdLink
Lesson planEconomics
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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.
CTE Online
EntrepreneurshipLesson plan
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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
EntrepreneurshipVideo
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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
VideoPersonal Finance
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Learn About Credit Card Use
In this lesson students learn the joys and dangers of using credit.
EconEdLink
Lesson planCredit/LoansPersonal Finance
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Play Accounting Jeopardy
Students have fun demonstrating their understanding of accounting by playing Accounting Jeopardy!
The Wharton School
AccountingLesson plan
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What Are the Four Types of Economics?
Use this video to introduce the four types of economies to your students.
Daniel Mares
VideoEconomics
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Compare Economic Systems
Students discuss how different societies answer the same fundamental economic questions by comparing economic systems.
Carolina K-12
Lesson planEconomics
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How Does the NGPF Academy Work?
NGPF Academy offers and tracks FREE professional development opportunities for educators focusing on personal finance.
NGPF
Personal Finance
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Build Your $tax
In this arcade game, students have 20 years to build their wealth. Can be played in a group or individually.
NGPF
SimulationsPersonal Finance
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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
SimulationsPersonal FinanceEconomics
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Explore Ethics
Students will be able to define what ethics is and explore some of the ethical dilemmas our society faces.
NGPF
Lesson planEthics
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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
EntrepreneurshipSimulations
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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
Lesson planFinance
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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
ArticlePersonal Finance
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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.
Daniels Fund
ArticleFinance Careers
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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
ArticleFinance Careers
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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
EntrepreneurshipLesson planEthics
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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.
CTE Online
Lesson planEthics
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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
AccountingVideo
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Globalization through International Marketing
Look into other cultures and learn about different countries while becoming better global citizens.
CTE Project
MarketingLesson 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!
SBA
EntrepreneurshipCollection
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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 planProject
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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.
New Horizons
EntrepreneurshipArticle
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Shifting Perspectives
Involve your students in discussing the top financial centers in the world.
Visual Capitalist
ArticleFinance
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Learn About Entrepreneurship
Students will gain understanding of the critical role played by entrepreneurs in the national and global economy.
NAF
EntrepreneurshipLesson plan
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Explore Business Economics
An introduction to the key concepts of economics with business and differentiates microeconomics from macroeconomics.
NAF
Lesson planEconomics
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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.
NAF
AccountingLesson 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.
Investopedia
AccountingArticle
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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.
Jacob Clifford
VideoFinance
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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.
CTE Online
EntrepreneurshipLesson 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.
CTE Online
AccountingLesson 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 planPersonal 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 CoursePersonal 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
VideoPersonal Finance
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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
EntrepreneurshipCollection
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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.
Capital One
ArticleFinance 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.
AICPA
AccountingLesson plan

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