Before buying an extended warranty or a service contract for your home, a car, or an appliance, be sure to read the fine print and weigh the costs and benefits.

Vocabulary, vocabulary, vocabulary is the first step in learning a new discipline like economics or personal finance. We can help with that! Create and print flashcards, or have your students create and print their own, from more than 300 economics and personal-finance terms. Create flashcards for each new chapter or unit of study.

Here you will find links to Economics resources for grades K-12, curated from Smithsonian Learning Lab, Council for Economic Education (CEE), Econ Lowdown, EconEdLink, Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF).

No surprise—people with more education often earn higher incomes and are unemployed less than those with less education. Those with higher incomes also tend to accumulate more wealth. Why? Research shows that well-educated people tend to make financial decisions that help build wealth. Their strategies, though, can be used by anyone.

Students make sense of dollars and cents when they study the importance of saving and budgeting in this lesson.

Explore personal finance principles through the lens of agricultural life, work, and money management. Students begin with creating an ideal rural life vision board, then learn and discuss the financial management that would be required to work toward that lifestyle. Budgeting, tracking income and expenses, banking and investments are covered in slides and end in a project to reimagine the board game Life in an agricultural setting, with careers, properties, achievements, and events rewritten to be ag-related.

Take a stroll through each screen of the online FAFSA to see what information you'll need on hand to complete the application quickly and accurately.

The FYE 105: Financial Literacy Curriculum Unit was developed for use in a First-Year Experience course to provide students with an understanding of: the relationship between human capital development and potential income and the chances of staying employed; budgeting; credit cards; and credit rights and responsibilities. The curriculum was implemented in an urban community college FYE course and was successful. We provide the curriculum for others who may wish to use it in a similar course.

This course is for students who are interested in maintaining a healthy and happy lifestyle. This course will appeal to food and nutrition enthusiasts. The course is designed for students to understand the principles of food, nutrition, cooking skills, and how to understand finances. You will understand different topics such as healthy eating habits, food safety, cooking terms, balancing budgets, and other important things that will help you live your life on a daily basis.

Payday loans are convenient and provide FAST cash to cover emergency situations or help pay a borrower’s expenses from one paycheck to the next. But the fee-based structure of payday lending is quite different from a traditional loan, and laws vary among the states. The April 2019 edition of Page One Economics®: Focus on Finance takes a look at the structure and fees that make these loans costly.

Rent-to-own and "buy here, pay here" make it easy to get what you want. But what are the real costs that you will pay for this convenience compared with what you’d pay using more-traditional financing, such as loans or credit cards? This video weighs the benefits and costs of your options.

Have you accepted a new job recently? Are you aware of the paperwork you need to complete when you start a new job? Watch this brief video to learn about the I-9 form; an important document required to prove you have the legal right to work in the United States.

This 9-minute video lesson explains the difference between a bond and a stock. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 18 of 184]

This 10-minute video lesson considers a choice between money now and money later. It is the first in a series of 4 videoson Present Value. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 3 of 184]

This 10-minute video lesson discusses more choices as to when you get your money. It is the 2nd of a 4-part series on Present Value.[Core Finance playlist: Lesson 4 of 184]

This 9-minute video lesson looks at how lower lending standards led to housing price inflation and helped created the housing price conundrum. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 14 of 184]

This 7-minute video lesson considers the virtuous circle of housing price appreciation making defaults go down making lending lax making housing appreciate even more. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 16 of 184]

This 9-minute video lesson looks at why housing prices went up so much from 2000-2006 even though classical supply/demand would not have called for it. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 13 of 184]

This 10-minute video lesson discusses why lending standards become more and more lax from 2000 to 2006. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 15 of 184]

This 14-minute video lesson discusses what it means to buy a company's stock. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 17 of 184]