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This is a free competition where students learn through playing an engaging budgeting game, and a real-time stock market game, with national rankings and prizes!
Students participate in our Budgeting and/or Investing games, starting with $500 in their investing account, and $500 in their checking account. Students can play through our budgeting game to earn (and save) more money, which can then be invested in their Stock Game portfolio.
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Prizes Total of
The top 5 students from both the Budget Game and Stock Game will each win a $50 Amazon Gift Card.
Prizes Total of
3 teachers will receive a $100 Amazon Gift Card. Students can nominate their teacher, and we’ll pick 3 lucky winners who will each get a $100 Amazon Gift Card.
Both of my classes had so much fun with the Budget Game and had no idea of all the learning that occurred! Thank you for making this available. It is so hard to find quality, free resources.
This is an absolutely fantastic program that I wish ALL students had the opportunity to participate in. Your game has provided so many opportunities to relate the real world to my students in a way that is fun, and interactive but also gives them real world skills that will help them throughout their lives.
We now talk about IPO’s and company announcements and budgets and a whole assortment of other real life topics that in the past would have required an entire lesson to help them understand the basics just to have a conversation. Bravo! Not only did you help my students but you made my job easier and more fun as well.
Thank you for making this amazing learning experience available to my students, and of course my congratulations to the other top 5 finishing students; as well as the entire 14,500+ student participants from across Canada, the USA, and elsewhere (?) who participated so enthusiastically, and did such a great job of representing their class/school.
Students practice managing a monthly budget, and building their emergency savings fund. So they can see how their decisions have consequences. Gaining experience on what it feels like to take full responsibility for their financial well-being.
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Students practice investing in real securities with US stocks, bonds and mutual funds. They learn from their own mistakes while using virtual money. So they can know how to grow their wealth responsibly, and make smart financial decisions when they’re ready to invest for real.
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300+ self-graded pop quizzes at the end of each lesson that integrate to teacher reports.
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Students don’t need to complete all the lessons to be eligible for prizes. However, why not take advantage of having free access to our curriculum?
We’ve included 86 lessons from our learning library on investing and personal finance. Each lesson includes a pop quiz at the end with 3-5 questions. Students are required to get 100% on all quizzes to earn the completion certificate, and are able to retake quizzes to improve their score. You can see their progress every step of the way from your Instructor Administrator page.
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In this challenge, you’ll get to have access to a limited selection of what PersonalFinanceLab has to offer. To get a better understanding of what you’ll get when you upgrade to a paid account, check out our product matrix below.
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| Budget Game |  |
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| Fully Customizable Game Settings | |
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| Stock Game | |
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| US Stocks, Bonds & Mutual Funds | |
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| Real-Time Prices (US Only) | |
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| International Stock Exchanges | |
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| Research & Quoting Tools | |
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| Options, Futures, Forex & Cash Spots | |
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| Tutorial Videos | |
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| Custom Exchanges | |
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| Advanced Trading Settings | |
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| Curriculum | Limited | |
| 50 Personal Finance Lessons | |
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| 300+ Personal Finance, Career Readiness, Investing, Economics, Marketing, Management and Accounting Lessons | Limited | |
| Aligned to Jump$tart Standards | |
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| Aligned to 20+ State Standards | |
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| Self-Grading Assessments | |
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| Pre and Post Financial Literacy Tests | |
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| Investing101 Completion Certificate | |
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| Financial Literacy Completion Certificate | |
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| Live Chat & Help Desk Support | |
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| Teacher Resources | Limited | |
| Basic Reports | |
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| Comprehensive Reporting | |
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| Lesson Plans | |
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| Fully Customizable Curriculum Settings | |
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| Slideshows & How-To Guides | |
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| 9-Week and 18-Week Course Outlines | |
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| Teacher Training Webinars | |
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| Dedicated Account Manager | |